556 SUPPLEMENT. 
Hab. Mexico, Omilteme and Xucumanatlan in Guerrero, 7000-8000 feet (H. H. 
Smith). 
Two specimens. In the male the elytra are more deeply striate than in the female, 
the striw with coarser and deeper oblong impressions, which impinge on the interstices, 
the latter appearing to be transversely wrinkled. ‘This small species is not very closely 
allied to any of the other Mexican forms known to me. It is of a duller colour than 
any of the allied species with strongly margined thorax, the elytra being peculiarly 
sculptured. 
37 (a). Tarpela teapensis. 
$.- Elongate, parallel, rather depressed, very shining, glabrous; the head eneous, the prothorax with the 
disc broadly, transversely suffused with metallic green, this colour bordered on all sides with cupreous, 
the margins narrowly golden, the elytra bright golden-bronze. Head densely, not very finely punctate ; 
antenne pitchy-brown, very elongate ; prothorax transversely convex, about one-half broader than long, 
bisinuate at the base and not very deeply emarginate at the apex, the sides sharply margined, sinuate 
behind, and converging and moderately rounded in front, the anterior angles rounded and not prominent, 
the hind angles rectangular, the basal fovez distinct, the lateral margins somewhat expanded and grooved 
Within, the entire surface exceedingly finely, rather sparsely punctate; elytra wider than, and about 
three and a half times as long as, the prothorax, flattened on the disc, parallel to beyond the middle, finely 
and rather lightly striate throughout, the strie sharply cut, and with series of very fine, oblong, rather 
closely placed punctures, which become a little more distinct towards the sides and almost obsolete 
towards the suture, the interstices quite flat, very sparsely, minutely punctate, the humeri obtuse; beneath 
pitchy-brown, shining, the metasternum with some rather coarse punctures towards the sides, smooth in 
the middle, the flanks of the prothorax finely, longitudinally strigose the ventral surface very sparsely, 
minutely punctate, the segments 1-3 broadly flattened, pubescent, and closely punctured along the middle ; 
prosternum narrowly produced and slightly declivous behind, the apex with a small raised point; legs 
pitchy-brown, the anterior tarsi with joints 1-3 moderately dilated. 
Length 94, breadth 33 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
One specimen. Allied to 7. silvicola, from the Pacific slope of Guatemala, but 
with the elytral striae deeper and more sharply cut, the punctures in them closer and 
finer; the elytra are also more elongate, and the thorax is more finely punctured, 
the latter transversely banded with metallic green, cupreous, and golden. 7. teapensis 
is more elongate than 7. sinuaticollis and T. puncticeps, and also differs in various 
particulars from both these species. The elytral striz are fine, very sharply cut, and 
indistinctly punctured. 
HELOPS (p. 312). 
Helops inanis (p. 316). 
Helops funebris, huj. op. p. 316. 
To the locality Mexico, add :—Amecameca in Morelos (Flohr). 
 H. funebris was based upon a female example of large size, with the thorax much 
shorter than in the specimens described by Allard under the name of Tarpela inanis. 
