TOMOXIA.—GLIPA. 263 
prothorax with a median vitta (narrowing in front and behind) and a large triangular mark on either 
side of this about the middle brownish-black, the rest of the surface with golden-cinereous pubescence, the 
pubescence whitish along the lateral margins ; elytra with rather broad partly confluent lines of yellowish- 
cinereous pubescence, interrupted by an oblique spot on either side of the scutellum at the base, two 
parallel oblong marks below this, a quadrangular spot on either side of the suture about the middle, 
and an anteapical patch, these markings brownish-black-pubescent, the apical two-thirds of the suture 
cinereous. Head very convex, the eyes extending to the occiput; palpi coloured and formed as in 
T. fulviceps; antenne short, testaceous, darker towards the apex, joints 5-10 moderately serrate, 9 and 10 
about as broad as long; prothorax, scutellum, and elytra formed as in 7’. fulviceps; pygidium very short, 
broadly truncate at the apex; beneath with a good deal of whitish pubescence, that on the last ventral 
segment yellowish ; legs black, the coxe and femora of the anterior and middle pairs and all the tibial 
spurs flavo-testaceous ; anterior and middle tarsi with the third and fourth joints very feebly dilated ; 
middle tibie as long as the tarsi of the same pair of legs; posterior tibial spurs moderately long, the 
inner one much longer than the outer ; the anterior femora and tibie slightly enrved. 
Length to end of the elytra 4-44, to tip of the pygidium 44-5}, millim.; breadth 12-2 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith); Paxama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Two examples, agreeing exactly with each other, apparently both males. Smaller 
than 7. fulviceps; the markings of the upper surface very different; the anterior and 
middle femora entirely flavo-testaceous. 
GLIPA. 
Glipa, Leconte, Col. of Kansas & Eastern New Mexico, p. 17 (1857). 
The characters of this genus as given by Leconte are:—‘ The last joint of the 
maxillary palpi strongly dilated, securiform (in the form of an isosceles triangle, 
attached by its apex); the outer joints of the antenne triangular; the scutellum 
triangular, rounded at the apex; the middle tibiz longer than the tarsi; the posterior 
tibiee only moderately dilated, longer than the first joint of the tarsi, and destitute of 
oblique ridges; the anal style short, truncate, and subemarginate; the body slender.” 
The single species included in it by Leconte, Mordella hilaris, Say, also inhabits 
Central America. J. B. Smith, in his “ Monograph of the Mordellide of the United 
States” (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. pp. 73 e¢ seg.), merges the genus Glipa into Tomoxia : 
he overlooking altogether the abnormally elongate middle tibiz, the very long elytra, 
and other characters. The thorax is much broader than the elytra; the elytra are 
very elongate (relatively longer than in Tomoaia or Mordella), with the sides almost 
straight, but gradually converging from the base ; the anterior and middle tarsi have 
their third and fourth joints moderately dilated, and (with the base of the second) 
spongy-pubescent beneath; the eyes are finely granulated and pubescent. Various 
species from the tropical regions of the Old World belong to it; and two from Brazil 
have been described by Chevrolat. 
1. Glipa hilaris. (Tab. XI. fig. 12, ¢.) 
Mordella hilaris, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. p. 190 (1835)'; Complete Writings, ii. p. 661. 
Glipa hilaris, Lec. Col. of Kansas & Eastern New Mexico, p. 177; Proc. Acad. Phil. xiv. p. 46°, 
