BLEPHARIDA. 385 



A small species, much resembling in colour B. unicolor, Jac, but differing in the 

 flat and not convex interstices of the elytra, in the less deeply impressed punctuation, 

 and in its comparatively shorter and more convex shape. 



BLEPHARIDA. 



Blepharida, Rogers, Proc. Acad. Phil. viii. 1856, p. 29. 



The North-American species which served the author for the establishment of this 

 genus were at first thought to belong to the true Chrysomelidae, amongst which they 

 were included by Rogers. Stal and other authors recognized the true relationship of 

 Blepharida with the Halticinae, where it found its place near the Old World genus 

 Podontia, to which it is no doubt closely allied. I have already expressed my 

 opinion, in my remarks on the genus Notozona (p. 382), that the latter might well be 

 included in Blepharida, since constant structural differences seem to be absent. I have 

 nevertheless abstained from describing the Central-American species under one generic 

 name for the present, since the coloration of Blepharida seems to admit the separation 

 of its species for the present. The latter have, as far as is known, their elytra of a 

 pale flavous ground-colour, upon which more or less numerous small spots are placed, 

 either transversely or longitudinally, and this applies also to nearly all the species of 

 Podontia from the Old World. In Notozona we find either broad transverse bands 

 or separate but regular large spots, but not irregularly placed small spots. 



1. Blepharida suturalis. (Tab. xxil. fig. 12.) 



Below fulvous ; above flavous ; head and thorax finely and closely punctured ; elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate, the posterior half of the suture and a number of transverse and longitudinal spots fulvous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head finely punctured at the sides ; antennae pale fulvous, the third and fourth joints equal ; thorax of equal 

 width, three times as broad as long, the sides slightly rounded, the anterior angles acute and rather pro- 

 duced, the surface very finely and remotely punctured, the disc with some obsolete shallow depressions ; 

 elytra convex and wider than the thorax, flavous, strongly and regularly punctate-striate, the strise 

 anteriorly curved towards the base, the lateral margin entirely as well as the latter half of the suture 

 reddish-fulvous ; of the similarly coloured spots, one is placed at the humeral callus, and a smaller one 

 directly below, the others form somewhat transverse patches and bands, of which one is placed before, 

 the second below the middle, and the third near the apex ; these spots vary, however, to such an extent,, 

 that only a figure can give a correct idea ; underside and legs dark fulvous. 



Hob. Guatemala, San Geronimo, Cubulco (Champion). 



The only constant character in the pattern of the elytra in this insect seems to be 

 the posterior fulvous portion of the suture, which anteriorly remains of the ground- 

 colour. 



2. Blepharida reticulata. (Tab. xxil. fig. ll.) 



Oblong, obscure testaceous ; thorax finely punctured ; elytra flavous, strongly punctate-striate, the entire disc 



occupied with irregular transversely shaped fulvous spots. 

 Length 4 lines. 



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