BLEPHAEIDA. 387 



Hab. Mexico, Juquila (SalU). 



Closely allied in shape to B. rhois, but differing in the close and distinct punctuation 

 of the thorax and the design of the elytra. A single specimen. 



5. Blepharida marmorata. (Tab. XXII. fig. 13.) 



Subquadrate-ovate, fulvous ; thorax finely and closely punctured ; elytra closely semipunctate-striate, flavous,. 



the sutural and lateral margins, and numerous irregularly shaped spots on the disc, black. 

 Length 3 lines. 



Hab. Mexico, Cuernavaca (SalU). 



The thorax of this species is slightly widened at the middle, its sides are straight, 

 and the surface is closely and finely punctured, and has a sinuate transversely impressed 

 obsolete groove near the posterior margin ; the elytra, instead of having regular rows 

 of deep punctures, are finely, closely, and not very regularly punctate-striate, and the 

 numerous spots on the disc are not fulvous, but black. 



A single specimen. 



6. Blepharida punctatissima. (Tab. xxii. fig. 17.) 



Flavous ; terminal joints of the antennae black ; elytra extremely closely punctured, the suture, a transverse 

 oblique band below the middle, and several smaller spots on the disc and apex, fulvous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head impunctate; four basal joints of the antennas flavous, the rest black, the fourth joint longer than the 

 third ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides moderately rounded, the posterior margin sinuate, not 

 produced at the middle, the anterior angles blunt and slightly produced outwards, the surface obsoletely 

 and finely punctured, with some irregular shallow depressions ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra oblong, closely 

 covered with distinct punctures, arranged in ill-defined double and treble closely approached rows, the 

 sutural and lateral margins narrowly fulvous, a band of the same colour is placed obliquely across the 

 suture below the middle and not quite extending to the lateral margin, several other spots are also attached 

 to the sutural margin before and below the middle as well as near the sides and at the base. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Edge). A single specimen. 



The design of the elytra is probably variable in different specimens, and may take the 

 form, perhaps, of several transverse bands ; the close arrangement of the punctuation, 

 in connection with the black antennae and the size of the species, will assist in distin- 

 guishing B. punctatissima from its allies. 



7. Blepharida godmani. (Tab. XXII. fig. 18.) 



Oblong-ovate, convex, dark fulvous ; antennae flavous, the three terminal joints black ; elytra very closely 

 punctate-striate, fulvous, covered with numerous yellow spots, and with an irregular transverse yellow 

 band before the middle. 



Length 3| lines. 



Head with a few punctures near the inner margin of the eyes, forming a rather distinct groove in front of the 

 latter ; labrum flavous ; fourth joint of the antennae distinctly longer than the third, the latter one half 

 longer than the second joint ; thorax three times as broad as long, of the same shape as in B. punctatissima, 

 the disc with a rounded fovea at each side, and a more oblique depression near the middle, rather closely 



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