422 PHYTOPHAGA. 



colour of the antennee and the shape and size of the elytral bands, as well as by the 

 pale colour of the underside and legs, which is the same in the two specimens 

 before me. 



37. (Edionychis insepta ? 



CEdionychis insepta, Harold, Deutsche ent. Zeitschr. 1877 1 . 

 Eab. Panama, Chiriqui (Bibbe). — Peru 1 . 



So many similarly coloured species to this (fulvous elytra with transverse metallic 

 bands) have been described, that it is impossible to say whether I am rightly referring 

 the single specimen obtained by Herr Ribbe to Von Harold's species, with the description 

 of which it agrees in the main points. The only differences seem to be the entirely 

 black underside and legs in the Chiriqui specimen ; the elytra in this individual are 

 metallic greenish-black, the lateral margin and a narrow transverse band, slightly 

 widened towards the suture, fulvous, and the base of the head and the antennae 

 black. A specimen from Peru contained in my collection agrees in every way with 

 the one from Chiriqui. 



38. (Edionychis fulvofasciata. 



Dark fulvous ; antennas (the basal joints excepted) black ; thorax impunctate ; elytra rather strongly and 

 closely punctured, greenish or bluish-black, a broad transverse band at the middle and the apex fulvous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head with some distinct punctures near the eyes, the latter rather closely approached, the frontal tubercles- 

 distinct ; antennae black, the two first joints fulvous, the third and fourth joints of equal length ; thorax 

 three times as broad as long, the sides straight at the base, rounded near the apex, the anterior angles 

 produced into a distinct tooth, the surface impunctate ; scutellum black ; elytra nearly parallel, the 

 shoulders prominent and bounded within by a deep groove, the punctuation close and very distinct, the 

 base to nearly the middle is occupied by a transverse dark blue band which does not quite extend to the 

 lateral margins nor to a narrow space above the shoulders, behind the middle another similar band is 

 placed, which extends to the lateral margin, but not to the apices of the elytra, which remain fulvous, the 

 posterior margin of the second band is concave, the anterior one irregularly dentate or sinuate ; epipleurae 

 and the entire underside and legs dark fulvous. 



Eab. Guatemala (SalU) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 



(E. insepta, Harold, seems to be a closely allied species, but is described as having 

 blackish legs and underside, as well as the third joint of the antenna? much shorter 

 than the fourth, which is not the case with the present species. (E. fulvofasciata 

 may be further distinguished by the distinct punctuation of the elytra, the fulvous 

 band of which, dividing the blue portion, is less than half the width of the dark 

 bands, and consequently broader than is the case with some other similarly coloured 

 species. 



