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isolated black spot near the apex of the elytra. The latter resemble somewhat in their 

 design B. wallisi, Steinheil ; but the fulvous spots are of different shape, and the whole 

 insect is more convex, the punctuation being also very different. 



23. Doryphora OCellata. (Tab. XIV. fig. 4. B. transversoplagiata, Tab. XV. 

 fig. 19.) 

 Doryphora ocellata, Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 991. 



Hab. Costa Eica (coll. Jacoby); Panama (Boucard), Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



It is very probable that the single specimen in my collection is but an immature 

 form of the preceding species, from which it differs in its pale fulvous (instead of black) 

 colour, the four thoracic small aeneous spots, and the shape of the lateral basal spot, 

 which is not pear-shaped as in B. ornata, but rounded. In other respects it resembles 

 the latter. The species figured as B. transversoplagiatus, which I believed at first to 

 represent a distinct species, must be united with the present one, as a close examination 

 of the specimens lately received proves. These are varieties of darker colour, with the 

 fulvous hands more or less interrupted. 



24. Doryphora sheppardi. 



Doryphora sheppardi, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. iv. 1858, p. 343, t. 27. fig. 6 \ 

 Doryphora divisa, Stal, Diagn. 1858, p. 253 ; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 18 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 2 , Cordova (H'dge, SalU), Santecomapan (Salle ) ; Beitish Honduras, 

 river Sarstoon (Blaneaneaux) ; Guatemala \ Volcan de Atitlan, Cerro Zunil, El Eeposo, 

 Pantaleon, Mirandilla, Zapote, Sinanja, Senahu, Cohan (Champion); Nicaragua, San 

 Lorenzo (Janson). 



This species does not seem to be uncommon in Mexico and Guatemala. The broad 

 elytral transverse band and triangular spot and in consequence also the yellowish-white 

 bands which separate the darker parts are subject to variation. The elytral epipleurse 

 have before the middle a dark aeneous spot, which is a continuation of the transverse 

 anterior band. In the single specimen from San Lorenzo, which I have before me, the 

 thorax and legs are brownish piceous, the punctuation of the elytra is more remote and 

 less deep, even fine near the apex, and the interstices are not transversely rugose, as in 

 all the other specimens, but finely aciculate and fiat. The same is also the case in 

 regard to the thorax. Whether this specimen is the representative of another species 

 I cannot decide without having others from the same locality to compare. 



25. Doryphora impar. (Tab. XIV. fig. 10.) 



Doryphora impar, Stal, Diagn. 1859, p. 307; Monogr. Chrys. Amer. p. 71 \ 



Hab. Mexico \ Cordova (Salle). 



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