90 PHYTOPHAGA. 



suture at a little distance below the scutellum, the next two of the same length, but united at their ends, 

 and sending off an oblique branch towards the sutural margin below the middle ; between this branch 

 and the suture an annular short ridge is situated ; and other short longitudinal costse are placed near the 

 apex, at which place, but near the lateral margin, a distinct tubercle is also visible ; pygidium punctured, 

 with a distinct central ridge; underside deeply punctate; prosternum greatly narrowed posteriorly, 

 finishing in an acute point. 



Eab. British Honduras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, San Juan (Champion). 



This species bears great resemblance in its complicated elytral design to E. intricate 

 but is at once distinguished by the sculpturing of the thorax and the black tarsi, while 

 the difference in the elytral costse separates it from others of Lacordaire's monograph, 

 its nearest ally being E. carinaticollis ; that species, however, according to Lacordaire, is 

 devoid of tubercles and costse at the apical part of the elytra, as well as of the ring-like 

 ridges near the sutural margin. 



POROPLEURA. 



Poropleura, Lacordaire, Mon. p. 863 (1848). 



• Six species are at present known of this handsome genus, distinguished from the 

 others of the present group by its simple claws. The species are all of large size, 

 brilliant colour, and distinguished by the acute and high tubercles of their upper 

 surface. Until now the northern and southern parts of South America have been 

 recorded as their only habitat. 



l. Poropleura bacca. 



Poropleura bacca, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 446 (1818) ; Kollar, Mon. Chlam. p. 6, t. 1. f. 9 1 ; 

 Lacord. Mon. p. 868 2 . 



Hab. Mexico (Salle).— Brazil 1 2 . 



One specimen in the collection of M. Salle, and labelled " Mexico," proves the wide 

 geographical extent of this well-known species, although (if no mistake as to the locality 

 has been made in the present instance) it is somewhat singular that so large and showy 

 a species should have hitherto escaped the collectors in Central America, at least to my 

 knowledge. The specimen before me does not much differ in general from the Brazilian 

 form, but belongs to the obscure bronze-coloured variety, and the thoracic tubercles 

 are less strongly marked. 



Fam. LAMFBOSOMIDJE. 



LAMPROSOMA. 



Lamprosoma, Kirby, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 445 (1818). 



The present subfamily is divided into three genera, one of which is well represented 

 in Central America, one or two species belonging to the other genera having also been 



