2Q2 THYTOPHAGA. 



a ramulifera is a good species, and not a variety of the present insect in which the 

 spots, although larger, are placed similarly, as several intermediate forms before me may 

 be referred to either species. In C. argus the design of the elytra consists, besides the 

 broad shoulder-spot, which sends a short branch off towards the suture, in a round 

 spot near the scutellum, in a central spot at the lateral margin, and in two rows of 

 smaller spots placed longitudinally and in parallel lines on the disk, the first row 

 consisting of five, the second of four spots generally; near the suture (which has four 

 indentations, counting the two posterior spots attached to it as such) there is another 

 round spot, placed close below the second indentation, either free or connected with the 

 suture. All these designs and spots are also present in C.famularis, but rather more 

 confluent. A specimen from Vera Cruz is figured. 



17. Calligrapha tortilis. (Tab. X. fig. 21.) 



Calligrapha tortilis, StSl, Diagn. 1859, p. 323; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 282 \ 



Eab. Guatemala 1 {Salle) ; Costa Rica K 



The thorax and the legs of this species are dark brown with a slight purplish gloss. 

 The design of the elytra resembles somewhat that of C. ancoralis ; but in the latter the 

 shoulder-spot is not connected with the suture, which is the case in the present species, 

 which shows also two spots below the base (the lower of which is attached to the 

 oblique band from the shoulder) and two others near the extreme lateral margin. The 

 insect was not obtained either by Mr. Champion or Herr Hoge. 



18. Calligrapha eupatris. (Tab. X. fig. 22.) 



Calligrapha eupatris, St&l, Diagn. I860, p. 462; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 281 \ 



Eab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Edge; Sturm, coll. Salle); Guatemala 1 (Salle), 

 Dueiias, Capetillo, San Geronimo (Champion). 



St&l evidently described this species from a single specimen in Mr. Baly's collection, 

 which is now before me, and which agrees perfectly with a number of others from 

 different parts of Guatemala, except in the general colour of its elytra, which in the 

 type are light testaceous, most of the Guatemalan specimens being of a light brown 

 colour. The broad spot at the shoulder is free in the type, but united with the sutural 

 stripe before the middle in most of the other specimens ; of the other isolated spots, 

 five are situated parallel with the lateral margin, three or four placed longitudinally 

 from the middle to the apex, and a V-shaped spot, often indistinct, near the suture at 



the middle. 



Two specimens obtained by Herr Hoge vary a good deal from the Guatemalan 

 forms : the head shows one or three fulvous spots in an aeneous specimen, the other 

 being of a more fulvous colour; the elytra! spots near the suture are irregular and 

 confluent ; and the testaceous ground-colour is dotted over by irregular piceous small 



