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see nothing but a variety of S. decoratus, being yellow and brown instead of yellow 

 and black. The punctured striae of the elytra, which according to Suffrian are 

 different from those of S. decoratus, do not show any difference whatever from any 

 specimens of the latter which I have examined. I cannot, therefore, admit S. spadiceus 

 as specifically distinct, more especially as a specimen from Tehuantepec, although 

 evidently belonging to the last-named variety of Suffrian, again differs in colour. 



10. Scolochrus personatus. (Tab. ill. figg. 20 & 22.) 



Scolochrus personatus, Suffr. Monogr. vii. p. 133 1 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Cordova, Playa Vicente {Salle); Beitish Hondueas, Eio Sarstoon 

 (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, Zapote (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales 

 (Belt). 



This is another most variable species, founded by Suffrian upon a single female specimen. 

 It may, however, be recognized from others by the transverse black or brown mark 

 at the middle of the elytra, which assumes, however, sometimes the shape of a band, 

 as the figure on our Plate shows. I also refer to this species several specimens from 

 Nicaragua and Mexico which are of a uniform brown colour above, without any trace 

 of darker marks; in general shape and sculpturing they agree, however, with the 

 normal specimens. Of those figured here, the lighter- coloured one has been collected 

 at Zapote, the other at Vera Paz by Mr. Champion. 



11. Scolochrus triangularis. 



Scolochrus triangularis, Suffr. Monogr. xvi. p. 162 \ 



Below dark blue or black, covered with thick white pubescence ; thorax black, with a purplish gloss, sides 

 closely pubescent ; elytra very closely and irregularly punctate-striate, light or dark fulvous, margins and 

 a triangular spot on the disk bluish black. 



Length 2^-3^ lines. 



Hab. Panama (Boucard). — Colombia 1 ; Venezuela; Beazil? (Clark). 



This species has as yet been only recorded from South America. Two specimens 

 (females) collected by M. Boucard near Panama agree in every thing with the type 

 before me, and may be at once distinguished from varieties of 8. purpurascens and 

 other similarly coloured species by the close and irregular punctuation of the elytra and 

 the triangular black spot of the latter. 



12. Scolochrus iudigestus. 



Scolochrus indigestus, Suffr. Monogr. xvi. p. 79. 



Black ; head, the anterior angles of the thorax, and the scutellum white ; disk of the thorax finely punctate ; 



elytra fulvous, finely punctate-striate, interstices very finely punctured and shining. 

 Length 2\ lines. 



Hab. Mexico. 



