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Har., is, although small, larger than the present species, and not black but piceous ; the 

 thoracic groove in the insect before me is very finely impressed, in one specimen nearly 

 obsolete, and the punctuation extremely fine ; I cannot discover any pubescence on the 

 elytra, which, as well as the entire upper surface of the insect, are black and shining ; 

 the labrum, antennse, tibiae, and tarsi are fulvous or testaceous ; two specimens from 

 Belize have the thoracic basilar groove more marked, but I am unable to distinguish 

 them in any other way from the Guatemalan insects ; in all of them the clypeus and 

 the labrum are darker or paler fulvous. 



7. Epitrix cucumeris. 



Haltica cucumeris, Harris, Journ. of Agricult. i. p. 103 (1851) \ 

 Epitrix cucumeris, Crotch, Proc. Ac. Phil. p. 72 (1873) 2 . 

 Haltica pulescens, Illig. Magaz. f. Insekt. vi. p. 58 3 . 



Eab. Nokth America 1 2 3 . — Guatemala, near the city, Duefias (Champion). 



The Guatemalan insects before me agree so closely with a North- American specimen 

 contained in my collection, and also with the descriptions given by the above-named 

 authors, that I have little doubt about their specific identity. The elytra in this species 

 are rather closely covered with yellowish hairs ; the thorax is distinctly punctured ; and 

 the legs and antennse are more or less testaceous, the posterior femora only being darker, 

 and also, in some cases, the terminal joints of the antennae. E. hirtula, Har., seems 

 only to differ in the darker legs and antennae, and is therefore either only a variety or 

 an extremely closely allied species. E. cucumeris is stated by Harris to be very 

 destructive to cucumber-vines. 



8. Epitrix montana. 



Black ; four or five basal joints of the antennae, and the base of the tibiae, fulvous ; head smooth ; thorax 

 coarsely punctured ; elytra covered with yellowish pubescence, very strongly punctate-striate, the inter- 

 stices obsoletely and longitudinally costate. 



Length 1 line. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (coll. Salle), Saltillo in Coahuila (Br. Palmer) ; Guatemala, 

 Quiche Mountains 7000 to 9000 feet (Champion). 



1 here give the description of a species which I can only compare, on account of the 

 coarsely punctured thorax, to E. fuscula, Crotch. The description is, however, so 

 unsatisfactory and short that without comparison with the type no conclusion can be 

 arrived at. In the insect before me the thorax is closely covered with very deep and 

 large punctures, the basilar groove runs parallel with the posterior margin and is deeply 

 impressed ; the elytral punctuation consists of still larger punctures than those of the 

 thorax, but forms impressed striae only near the apex ; the first and second joints of the 

 antennae are, in one specimen, black, in another the second is fulvous, the next three or 

 four joints are also of the latter colour, and the terminal ones again black ; the base of the 



