222 PHYTOPHAGA. 



SMlodes has but few representatives in Central America ; a great many species,, 

 however, are known from the more southern parts. 



1. Stilodes atromaculata. (Tab. XIII. fig. 8.) 



Deuterocampta atro-maculata, Stal, Diagn. 1859, p. 314; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 177 \ 



Hob. Mexico \ Playa Vicente, Misantla, Jalapa, Cerro de Plumas (Hoge), Cordova, 

 Santecomapan (SalU) ; Guatemala, Cahabon (Champion). 



The only specimen obtained by Mr. Champion differs in the following particulars 

 from all the Mexican forms:— The thorax is more narrowed at the middle; and the 

 elytra have the two posterior spots united into a transverse band ; the anterior spot is 

 of a more regular shape and less sinuate than is usually the case. The specimen 

 from Playa Vicente is figured. 



2. Stilodes flavicans. 



Deuterocampta flavicans, Stal, Diagn. 1860, p. 456; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 181 \ 

 Var. hepatica, Stal, Diagn. 1860, p. 456 ; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 181. 



Hab. Mexico \ Playa Vicente (Hoge) ; Panama, Bugaba, 800-1500 feet (Champion). 



Only a single specimen obtained by Herr Hoge and another by Mr. Champion seem 

 to prove this species to be rare, no specimens being contained in the collections of 

 Mr. Baly or M. Salle. Stal's description agrees perfectly with the specimens before me ; 

 from similarly coloured species the present one may be known by the remote and 

 rather fine punctuation of the thorax, and by the punctures of the elytra, which are 

 placed in regular rows near the sutural half, the other being very finely and irregularly 

 punctate ; the portion near the lateral margin is entirely impunctate. In the colour of 

 the underside the Mexican specimen agrees with the description given by Stal; but the 

 insect from Panama differs in having underside and legs of a bluish-black colour, in 

 which respect it agrees with Stal's D. hepatica, which the author himself believes 

 to be perhaps only a variety of the present species. There are certainly no other 

 characters present, according to his description, to define it as a distinct species. 



3. Stilodes modesta. 



Black below; first five joints of the antenna* testaceous ; head and thorax very closely punctured ; scutellum 

 black; elytra subregularly punctate- striate, the interstices partly finely punctured, dark fulvous. 



Length 3|-4 lines. • i, +t i f « 



Head closely and finely punctured, with several obsolete depressions; jaws piceous; antennae with the last live 

 joints transverse, as broad as long, black, the basal joints testaceous. Thorax of nearly equal width, the 

 sides very slightly rounded, the anterior angles scarcely produced and obsoletely rounded; surface mode- 

 rately closely punctate on the disk, the punctures not much stronger than those on the head, the sides very 

 closely and a little more deeply punctate ; scutellum black, impunctate, its sides rounded. Elytra convex, 

 the sides nearly parallel, but rounded towards the apex; each elytron with ten rows of moderately deeply 

 impressed punctures, the first sutural one very short, those near the sides somewhat irregular and often 

 disturbed by extra punctures, the fifth and following two rows approaching near the base, the eighth one 



