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26. Mordella rufomaculata. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 
Rather short, black; the head broadly brown-pubescent along the middle, the sides with silvery-white 
pubescence ; the prothorax with a broad median vitta, narrowing before and behind and extending com- 
pletely across, and a large transverse triangular spot on either side of it behind the middle blackish- 
pubescent, the rest of the pubescence silvery-white; the scutellum with white pubescence ; the elytra 
with a sparsely pubescent broad fulvo-rufous lateral patch occupying the basal third, a silvery-white- 
pubescent stripe extending from the base downwards (a little distant from the suture) and nearly meeting 
a transverse similarly coloured median fascia (the latter not reaching the suture), the median fascia 
preceded and followed and the discal stripe rather broadly bordered within with blackish pubescence, 
the apical third brown-pubescent, a narrow line of similarly coloured pubescence extending up the suture 
nearly to the base, the extreme apex and the scutellar region also with a little white pubescence ; the 
pygidium silvery-white-pubescent, with a narrow line of brown pubescence along the middle. Palpi 
testaceous, the last joint of the maxillary pair broadly triangular, its inner and outer sides subequal and 
each shorter than the inner side; antenne pitchy-brown with the basal four joints testaceous, slender 
and rather short, joints 3 and 4 thin, subequal, 5-11 broader but very little widened, 5-10 decreasing in 
length and subserrate, 10 about as broad as long, 11 nearly twice as long as 10; elytra less than two and 
a half times the length of the prothorax; beneath densely silvery-white-pubescent, the posterior coxe 
behind and the first ventral segment at the apex laterally brown; pygidium moderately long and 
acuminate, more than twice the length of the hypopygium; legs black, the anterior pair (the tarsi 
excepted) testaceous, the intermediate femora and tibia brownish, the tibial spurs testaceous. 
Length to end of the elytra 34, to tip of the pygidium 4, millim.; breadth 13 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
Allied to M. chevrolati and M. seanotata, but with a very different arrangement of 
the pubescence, and the sides of the elytra broadly fulvo-rufous at the base; the 
antenne are also much shorter. As in the two species mentioned, the silvery-white 
pubescent spots on the elytra are almost surrounded by dark pubescence, and are very 
conspicuous. 
27. Mordella crassipes. (Tab. XII. fig. 14.) 
Moderately elongate, rather broad, black; the head, the prothorax in part, and the scutellum yellowish- 
cinereous-pubescent, the prothorax with an irregular very broad blackish-brown-pubescent patch on the 
disc (occupying the greater part of its width and interrupted behind on either side of the middle by a 
short longitudinal extension of the light pubescence); the elytra with a broad oblique fulvous stripe ex- 
tending from the shoulders to beyond the basal third and curved inwards anteriorly, this stripe, the 
suture rather broadly from the base to a narrow angulated fascia at one-fourth from the apex, and the 
extreme base densely yellowish-cinereous-pubescent, for the rest clothed with black pubescence ; the 
pygidium yellowish-cinereous-pubescent in its basal half, black beyond. Head distinctly canaliculate 
behind ; palpi pitchy-brown, the last joint of the maxillary pair elongate-triangular, its outer side not much 
longer than the apical side, each very much longer than the inner side; antenne black, the five basal 
joints obscure red, joints 3 and 4 short, 4 subtriangular, a little wider than 3, 5-11 moderately widened, 
5-10 not thickening outwardly, about as broad as long, gradually becoming more strongly serrate, 8-10 
very strongly so, 11 a little longer but not narrower than 10; elytra moderately long; beneath black, 
cinereo-pubescent, the ventral segments with a good deal of dark brown pubescence at the sides behind ; 
pygidium stout, rather short, blunt at the tip, about twice the length of the hypopygium ; legs short and 
stout, black, the posterior tibial spurs fusco-testaceous, the latter comparatively short. 
Length to end of the elytra 4, to tip of the pygidium 5, millim. ; breadth 13 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
One example only. The much shorter, stouter, and blacker legs, the differently 
