370 HETEROMERA. 
d. Elytra rather short, coarsely punctured, with the lateral margins and a broad 
subsutural stripe reddish-testaceous ; eyes small. 
52. Strongylium blandum. (Tab. XVI. fig. 8, 2.) 
Strongylium blandum, Ma&kl. Monogr. p. 233; Act. Soc. Fenn. viii. part 1, p. 341°. 
Stenochia blanda, De}. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 232°. 
Hab. Mexico !? (coll. F. Bates), Cordova, Tuxtla (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hoge). 
This species is separated from the closely allied S. ramoswm by the rather shorter 
form, and by the more strongly raised interstices and the coarser and deeper punctuation 
of the elytra; the latter vary a good deal in the extent of the darker markings. We 
figure a female example from Cordova. 
Elytra coarsely striate-punctate, the punctures usually transverse and approximate, the 
interstices flat or but little ‘raised ; upper surface (except in S. armatum, var.) 
greenish-eneous, sometimes with a translucent reddish-brown tinge; size moderate 
or small. 
¢ yes more or less large and approximate. 
53. Strongylium impressicolle. (Tab. XVI. fig. 9, 3.) 
Strongylium impressicolle, Mikl. Monogr. p. 193; Act. Soc. Fenn. viii. part 1, p. 801°. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Ventanas (Forrer), Cordova, Tuxtla, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Misantla, 
Cerro de Plumas (Hége); Guatemata, San Juan in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion) ; 
Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson). 
Var,.? The prothorax armed at the sides with two contiguous median teeth, the anterior angles prominent. 
Hab. Guatemata (Sallé). One example. 
Var.? The prothorax armed at the sides with a strong median tooth; the legs and antennee fusco-testaceous, 
the former and the base of the latter suffused with golden-green. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt). One female example. 
Found in abundance by Herr Hoge at Misantla. In the long series of examples from 
this locality the thorax varies considerably in shape, the sides being usually rounded, 
though often subangularly dilatate about the middle. 8. impressicolle is distinguished 
by its moderately shining greenish-eneous surface, the elytra usually in great part 
suffused with reddish-brown ; it is the largest of several allied species (though quite 
small examples occur) inhabiting our region, and principally identified by the eyes 
being very large and sub-approximate, the thorax transverse, comparatively finely 
though closely punctured, and usually with a broad transverse arcuate impression on 
the disc behind, and the elytra with rows of moderately coarse transverse impressions. 
The ventral surface is rather closely and somewhat coarsely punctured; the fifth 
ventral segment impressed in the middle behind in both sexes (as in S. languidum), &c. 
A male individual from Misantla is figured. 
