2ig PHYTOPHAGA. 



sides stibfoveolate punctate; elytra with four testaceous longitudinal vittee, the first and fourth joined at 

 the apex, the two middle ones abbreviated. 



HTadtoely'anTrather closely punctured; antennse piceous, the basal joints more or less fulvous. Thorax 

 slightly widened from the base to the apex, the sides nearly straight, and rounded only near the antenor 

 angles the latter somewhat thickened and obtuse; surface remotely covered with fine punctures, the sides 

 with some very deeply impressed punctures ; scutellum smooth, greenish. Elytra with two rows of punc- 

 tures near the suture, rest of the surface irregularly but strongly punctured, obscure dark aeneous or 

 piceous each elytron with four testaceous stripes, the first sutural one joined at its apex to the lateral 

 stripe, the second one extending from the base to two thirds the length of the elytra, the third one from 

 before the middle to some distance from the apex; the epipleurse and a narrow stripe from the middle to 

 the apex at the lateral margin of the ground-colour. Underside and legs metallic greenish black; tarsi 

 piceous. 



Hab. Mexico, Juquila (Boucard, coll. Salle). 



I cannot consider the present species a variety of Z. wneo-wttata, which it much 

 resembles; in the latter the elytra have three testaceous bands only, which is also the 

 case in Z. quinquevittata, while there are four bands on each elytron in the present insect ; 

 of these the first two near the suture are rather curved, the other two running more 

 parallel with the lateral margin. If the yellow is taken as the ground-colour, the 

 elytra have each three dark bands, all of which are joined at the apex, but not at the 

 base, where only the two outer ones unite ; the punctuation also is different, the dark 

 bands in Z. ceneo-vittata being limited at each side by a row of regular punctures, the 

 latter being much more irregularly placed, and extending across the bands themselves 

 in Z. stall Three specimens are before me, which do not show any difference, except 

 in size ; one of them is labelled by Sturm Z. loeta. 



23. Zygogramma championi. (Tab. XII. fig. 6.) 



Zygogramma championi, Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 781 . 



Hab. Guatemala, Capetillo (Champion x ). 



Of this very distinct species (which cannot be confounded with any other, on account 

 of the uniformly coloured dark aeneous elytra margined with yeUow) seventeen speci- 

 mens were received from the above locality. While most of the specimens are of the 

 colour described, some show a very small testaceous spot at the middle of the base 

 of the elytra, almost as an indication of a stripe so frequent in this genus. Elytra and 

 thorax are rather strongly and irregularly punctured, the latter, as usual, more finely on 

 the disk than at the sides. 



24. Zygogramma ornata. (Tab. xii. figg. 22, 23.) 



Obscure cupreous below; antennse and tarsi fulvous; thorax dark cupreous; elytra yellowish white, their 

 epipleurse, a sutural band, and a sinuate broad longitudinal stripe from base to below the middle 

 cupreous. 



-par. Elytra cupreous, the lateral margin narrowly, five small spots near the suture, and another at the sides 



yellowish. 

 Length 3-3| lines. 



