256 PHYTOPHAGA. 



The specimen which served Mr. Baly for his type seems to be an immature one, as 

 all the others before me are of a greenish aeneous colour, having the elytral spots 

 confluent in the shape of transverse deeply dentate bands. I have seen no other 

 specimen from Panama than the type, and am therefore not able to say whether the 

 form found at that locality occurs always like it. The specimens from Nicaragua 

 are almost identical in the elytral design with D. eudowa, Stal; but the shape of 

 the bands and spots are slightly different at the shoulder and at the apex of the 

 sutural margin. 



34. Doryphora boucardi. (Tab. XV. fig. 20.) 



Subelongate, black ; thorax remotely punctured ; elytra subgeminately punctate-striate, testaceous, three trans- 

 verse narrow bands and some spots near the apex black. 



Length 6-7 lines. 



Head extremely finely punctured, opaque, black ; antennae with the last six joints flattened, slightly longer 

 than broad, black. Thorax of equal width, distinctly narrower than the elytra, of an opaque silky-like 

 appearance, very finely and remotely punctured throughout ; scutellum triangular, black. Elytra moderately 

 strongly geminately punctate-striate at the sutural half, irregularly punctured at the sides, testaceous ; each 

 elytron with three narrow irregularly dentate transverse black bands, one placed directly below the base, 

 the second before, and the third behind the middle, all of them extending to the lateral and sutural 

 margins ; another short, curved, black stripe occupies the lateral margin close to the apex, and is preceded 

 by two spots, of which one touches the suture. Elytral epipleurae testaceous, a spot below the base and 

 their apex black. Mesosternal process moderately long and curved. 



Hob. Panama (Boucard). 



In its narrow and elongate shape the species resembles E. eudoxa, Stal, also to a less 

 degree in its elytral pattern. From all the known transversely banded species, the 

 present one is distinguished by the position of the bands and their number. The 

 specimen obtained by Mr. Boucard differs from one contained in my collection by the 

 less opaque colour of its thorax and the more numerous punctures to be seen on the 

 disk of the latter. 



35. Doryphora opposita. (Tab. XV. fig. 21.) 



Black; thorax finely and very remotely punctured; elytra finely punctate-striate, flavous, the sutural and 

 lateral margins, an oblique band from the base to the suture, joined below the base to another longitudinal 

 lateral band from the shoulder to nearly the apex, black. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head entirely impunctate, with a fine central longitudinal groove ; labrum margined with testaceous ; antennae 

 black, terminal joint obscure fulvous, the last five joints longer than broad. Thorax moderately convex, 

 of nearly equal width, surface and the sides with a few fine punctures, shining black ; scutellum of the 

 same colour. Elytra finely and regularly punctate-striate, the space between the ninth and tenth striae 

 wider than the others, flavous, shining, the suture broadly, the lateral margin narrowly black ; from the 

 middle of the base a short oblique band, wider at its posterior portion, joins the suture at the middle ; 

 another, longer band runs parallel with and at some distance from the lateral margin, commencing at the 

 shoulder, where it is connected with the other band, and ending at a little distance from the apex, at 

 which place it is somewhat curved and directed towards the suture. Underside and legs black; last 

 abdominal segment margined with fulvous. Mesosternal process very short. 



Hab. Panama {Boucard). 



