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_ rapidly converging from the base, the base strongly bisinuate, the surface finely and rather closely punc- 
tured, reddish testaceous, broadly marked with black (in the form of a large discoidal patch, united each 
side externally with a broad crescent-shaped spot); scutellum red ; elytra with regular rows of very fine 
shallow punctures, the interstices finely, rather closely, and very evidently punctured, black, with a 
transverse strongly angulated band (starting from a little below the shoulder and extending to about 
halfway across the second interstice) before the middle, and the apex broadly, testaceous, the apical patch 
angulated on its anterior margin, and enclosing a short oblique brownish streak (united at the suture) 
placed just before the apex ; antenne (entirely) and legs testaceous ; beneath reddish brown, shining. 
Length 4 millim. 
Hab. GuatemaLa, Pantaleon (Champion). 
Six examples. This species slightly resembles some of the varieties of L. kirschi, 
but may be readily known by the strongly angulated testaceous bands of the elytra, 
and the thorax more narrowed anteriorly ; from L. horni, from the Amazons, it differs 
in its narrower and more ovate form, less transverse thorax, more evidently punctured 
and more shining upper surface, &c. 
5. Liodema connexum. (Tab. IX. figg. 15, 16.) 
Liodema connexum, F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. p. 236". 
Platydema cruciatum, Chevy. Petites Nouv. Ent. ii. p. 1827. 
Scaphidema cruciatum, Chevr. loc. cit. p. 187, nota’. 
Liodema cruciatum, Chevr. loc. cit. p. 243, nota. 
Platydema nigrofasciatum, Chevr. loc. cit. p. 215°. 
Liodema nigro-fasciatum, Chevr. loc. cit. p. 2493, nota. 
Hab. Muxico*4, Cordova, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemana, Purula 
(Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion).—Co.omB1a 1, Bogota *. 
A very variable species. The Mexican and Guatemalan examples before me all 
have the median transverse black band of the elytra united at the suture (extending 
anteriorly and posteriorly along the suture) and the basal band angulated on its lower 
edge. The Chiriqui specimens agree well with the type of L. connexum, except that 
the thorax is not black, but, as in all the Central-American examples, more or less 
marked with red; mixed with these are individuals perfectly intermediate in the elytral 
markings, clearly connecting the different forms, and also others in which the markings 
are quite obliterated. 
We figure a typical example (fig. 15) from Chiriqui, and (fig. 16) a well-marked 
variety (=cruciatum, Chevr.) from Mexico. 
6. Liodema serricorne. (Tab. IX. fig. 17.) 
Liodema serricorne, F. Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. p. 236 am 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Mirador (Hége); GuatemaLa, Zapote, Pantaleon, Tamahu 
(Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; PANAMA, Volean de Chiriqui 
(Champion).—GUIANA, Cayenne!; Brazit, Minas Geraes (coll. F. Bates). 
