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2 rufa vel fulva vel cinereo-alba, elytris basi et apice plus minusve margineque laterali usque prope 
humeros nigris. Linearis (3 angustus, gracilis, capite minore; 9 robustior, capite majore convexo), capite 
post oculos ¢ gutta et Q vitta lata nigris; thorace dorso maculis quatuor nigris alteraque laterali prope 
acetabula antica ; corpore subtus cinereo, abdominis segmentis apicalibus ad latera fulvis; pedibus nigris, 
cinereo tomentosis. 
Long. 4-6 lin. 3 9. 
Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca, Panistlahuca, Tuxtla, Playa Vicente, Oaxaca (Sailé), 
Juquila (Hége). 
I have adopted for this species the MS. name given to one of its varieties by Chevrolat. 
The short description of A. aldina published by Pascoe is evidently drawn up from the 
male of this or an allied species; but the colour “ griseo-alba ” does not apply to any 
of the examples I have seen ; and it is further stated to be from Guatemala, from which 
country no insect answering to the description is contained in the collections of Sallé 
and Champion. 
The specimens from Juquila and the Pacific coast are more slender than those of 
Central Mexico, and the males often have a pale fuscous spot at the apex of the elytra. 
3. Essostrutha miniata. 
Essostrutha leta, var. miniata, Lacordaire, Gen. Col. ix. p. 895’. 
Hab. Mexico!, Tehuantepec (Sumichrast). 
The only specimen I have seen which answers to Lacordaire’s brief description, 
“rouge de cinabre avec quatre points sur le prothorax et le sommet des elytres, sur 
une étendue variable, noires,” is a female in the Sallé collection from Tehuantepec. I 
have a male specimen, from a small collection made by Sumichrast in Tehuantepec, which 
I believe to be the source whence M. Sallé’s example was obtained ; and it differs in so 
many points from the males of both £. leta and jimbriolata, that it cannot be considered 
other than a distinct species. Both males and females are much more elongate than the 
species just cited, and both are of a rich cinnabar colour; the male has only two (the 
hinder pair) thoracic spots, and the elytra are free from black marks, except on the 
humeral callus; the female has four spots on the thorax, and a broad apical and narrow 
lateral margin (not reaching the shoulders), black; the flanks of the prothorax show 
the small black spot in both sexes. The antenne in the male are long and robust. 
' Length 6 lin. 
4. Essostrutha cinnabarina. 
E. late affinis, sed brevior, precipue ? latior et robustior, lete miniata, ¢ interdum rufo-ochraceus, capite 
macula pone oculos, thoraceque maculis 4 dorsalibus nigris, elytris (callo humerali fusco excepto) imma- 
culatis; subtus cum pedibus cinereo-nigris, episternis posticis (et abdominis lateribus) rufis vel fulvis, 
9 omnibus infuscatis. . 
Long. 4-5} lin. 6 Q. 
Hab. Guatemata, Zapote (Champion). 
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