112 PHTTOPHAGA. 



1. PhsBdra maxima. (Tab. VI. fig. 5.) 



Phcedra maxima, Lefevre, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1875, p. 106 \ 

 Hab. Mexico (Salle). — Cayenne 1 . 



The general upper colour of this species is a dark leaden blue, the head, legs, and 

 abdomen being of a bright fulvous colour. The Mexican specimen in the collection of 

 M. Salle, and named by M. Lefevre, does not vary from the type from Cayenne. 

 Another specimen from the last locality, in my collection, is smaller, but agrees in all 

 other respects. 



2. Phaedra dives. (Tab. VI. fig. 6.) 



Phadra dives, Lefevre, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1877, p. 119 1 . 

 Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz \ Cordova (Salle). 



The type of this species is before me, and agrees with the description of the author. 

 The underside is of a dark, the upperside of a brilliant metallic green ; the antennae and 

 legs are fulvous ; head and thorax very closely and strongly punctured. 



LAMPROSPILERUS. 



Lamprospharus, Baly, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 3,iv. p. 124 (1859); Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, ii. p. 337 

 (1865). 



The species comprising this genus, to the number of about a dozen, are small and 

 round in shape, in which respect they resemble the genera Phcedra, Chalcophyma, &c. ; 

 the thorax in the present genus, however, is devoid of the lateral groove on the under- 

 side, and the elytral epipleurse are less broad. No species has previously been described 

 from Central America, all of them having been obtained in South America. 



l. LamprosphaBnis apicalis. 



Ovate, convex, more or less narrowed behind, fulvous ; thorax metallic green or black ; elytra rather strongly 

 punctate-striate, fulvous, their last third metallic green or blue. 



Var. a. Thorax, the elytral spot, and the femora and tibiae black. 



Yar. 6. Entirely fulvous. 



Length If line. 



Head strongly but not very closely punctured, with a more or less distinct longitudinal groove ; clypeus trian- 

 gular, more closely punctured than the head ; antennae two thirds the length of the body, fulvous, the 

 apical joints more or less stained with piceous ; thorax not more than twice as broad as long, the anterior 

 margin distinctly produced at the middle, sides evenly rounded, surface finely but distinctly punctured ; 

 scutellum fulvous or metallic green ; elytra deeply punctate-striate near the base, more finely towards the 

 apex, the interstices near the lateral margin distinctly costate to the apex. 



Hab. Beitish Hondukas, Rio Hondo, river Sarstoon, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guate- 

 mala, Cubilguitz, Cerro Zunil, Las Mercedes, El Zumbador (Champion). 



