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11. Zygogramma popa. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 



Calligrapha popa, Stal, Diagn. I860, p. 461; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 248 \ 



Hob. Mexico \ La Parada (Boucard, coll. SalU) ; Guatemala \ Capetillo, Duenas 

 (Champion) ; Costa Rica 1 . 



As usual, this species varies in the colour of its body and elytral markings from 

 piceous to greenish eeneous. The elytra have the portion from the middle to the apex 

 crowded with small spots, which do not extend, however, to the lateral margin ; one or 

 two larger spots are placed close to the scutellum, and an oblique, short, longitudinal 

 band at the shoulder. I have, however, a single specimen from La Parada before me, 

 in which this band is also divided into numerous spots, in which respect it resembles 

 the following species, from which it may be distinguished by its usually more elongate 

 shape and the unspotted lateral margin. A specimen from the collection of Sturm 

 bears the label C. multipunctata. 



12. Zygogramma guttulosa. (Tab. XII. fig. 12.) 



Calligrapha guttulosa, Stal, Diagn. 1859, p. 322; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 249 \ 

 Hab. Guatemala 1 , San Geronimo, Duenas, Cerro Zunil (Champion); Costa Rica 1 . 



This is a species of a more convex shape and shorter than the preceding one, which 

 it much resembles in the numerous small elytral spots which crowd the whole surface, and 

 which, unlike those of Z. popa, extend close to the lateral margin ; the short band at the 

 shoulder is always absent in the present species. I have seen but six specimens, from 

 Guatemala. Stal says that the suture of the elytra is testaceous ; I find this is so in all 

 the specimens before me, including a type from Mr. Baly's collection, the suture being 

 of exactly the same colour as the spots. 



13. Zygogramma lentiginosa. (Tab. XII. figg. 14, 15.) 



Calligrapha lentiginosa, Stal, Diagn. 1860, p. 461 ; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 249 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, San Luis Potosi (Dr. Palmer), Oaxaca \ Yolotepec (SalU). 



Although, again, closely allied to the two preceding species, the present one may be 

 separated by the purplish or seneous colour of its body and of the elytral spots, the 

 latter of which are also larger and much less numerous. Several specimens from the 

 collection of M. Salle and Mr. Baly are distinguished by having a broad dark fulvous 

 band from the base to the apex, occupying the disk of each elytron, of which Stal 

 makes no mention ; but in other respects there is not much difference from the other 

 forms, although the number of spots varies greatly as well as their shape. A specimen 

 collected by Dr. Palmer, and one from M. Salle's collection, are figured. 



The species is not the C. clathrata of Sturm, as given in Gemminger's catalogue. 



