116. LONGICORNIA. 
3. Desmiphora mexicana. 
Desmiphora mexicana, Thoms. Class. Long. p. 75"; Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 200°. 
Hab. Mexico1, Playa Vicente (Salié); Guarnmaa, near the city (Salvin), Zapote 
(Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt?, Janson); Panama, Chiriqui (.42b0é).—Sovutu 
America, Venezuela (D. lanata, Chevrolat ?). 
4, Desmiphora canescens. (Tab. VIII. fig. 10.) 
Desmiphora canescens, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1873, p. 226°. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt +). 
5. Desmiphora xgrota. 
D. canescenti affinis. Parva, pallide fulva, antennis pedibusque fulvo-albis; elytris ante apicem lineis trans- 
versis flexuosis penicillatis albis, maculis rufescentibus interjectis ; capite, thoracis dorso maculaque scu- 
tellari fuscescentibus ; corpore longe erecte piloso, thorace scutelloque basi penicillis tenuibus fuscis. 
Long. 232 lin. 
Hab. GuatEMALa, Capetillo (Champion). 
Like D. canescens, this remarkable pale-coloured little species is distinguished by the 
absence of erect tufts of hair from the basal elevations of the elytra. 
PYRRACITA. 
Pyrracita, Thomson, Physis, ii. p. 105. 
A genus closely allied to Desmiphora, and of similar geographical range. Three 
species have been described. 
1. Pyrracita infima. 
Pyrracita infima, Thomson, loc. cit. p. 107. 
Hab. Mexico. 
ATELODESMIS. | 
Atelodesmis, Buquet, Arch. Ent. i. p. 334; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. ix. p. 625. 
Like the two preceding, this genus is confined to Tropical America. Three species 
have been admitted by Thomson and Lacordaire as belonging to it, namely two from 
Brazil and one from Mexico. 
1, Atelodesmis unicolor. 
Atelodesmis unicolor, Buquet, loc. cit. p. 336. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé). 
