(EDIONYCHIS. 423 



39. (Edionychis exquisita. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 5.) 



Broadly subhemispherical, pale fulvous ; antennae (the basal and apical joints excepted) fuscous ; elytra finely 

 punctured, flavous or testaceous, this colour divided by transverse and longitudinal metallic blue bands, 

 enclosing fourteen large flavous spots. 



Length 4| lines. 



Head with a few very fine punctures, fulvous, the space between the eyes much larger than their diameter ; 

 antennae not quite extending to half the length of the elytra, the fourth joint nearly double the length of 

 the third, the three lower and the three apical ones fulvous, the others fuscous ; thorax transverse, 

 strongly narrowed at the middle, the sides greatly rounded and flattened, the posterior margin perfectly 

 straight, the anterior angles produced into a short tooth, the surface punctured like the head, fulvous ; 

 scutellum fulvous ; elytra very strongly rounded (like a species of Coccinella), finely but more distinctly 

 punctured than the thorax, the suture anteriorly and posteriorly, the lateral margin to nearly the apex, 

 a short longitudinal streak from the middle of the base, as well as three transverse narrow dentate 

 bands (placed before, below the middle, and near the apex, and connected with each other at the middle), 

 metallic blue ; underside and legs pale fulvous. 



Hab. Panama (Boucard). 



This fine species, of which two specimens are before me, is not difficult to recognize 

 on account of its rounded shape, large size, and peculiar markings. If the metallic- 

 blue of the elytra is taken for the ground-colour, each elytron may be described as 

 having seven large flavous spots (2, 2, 2, 1) ; the basal longitudinal stripe dividing the 

 first two spots does not quite extend to the first transverse band ; the shape of these 

 bands will be better seen in the figure. 



40. (Edionychis decemguttata- (Tab. XXIII. figg. 15, 18, 22, var.) 



Galleruca decemguttata, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. 1801, p. 492 \ 

 Attica 10-guttata, Oliv. Ent. vi. 1808, p. 680, t. 1. fig. 20 2 . 

 Haltica dipus, Illig. Mag. vi. 1807, p. 86. 

 (Edionychis humeralis, Schaufuss, Nunq. Otios. ii. p. 307 3 . 

 {Edionychis nicaraguensis , Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 445 4 . 



Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Cerro de Plumas, Jalapa (Hbge), Cuernavaca, Panist- 

 lahuaca, Cosamaloapam, Orizaba, Teapa, Tuxtla, Vera Cruz (Salle) ; Beitish Hondueas, 

 H. Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Zapote, Chacoj, Purula (Champion); Nica- 

 eagua, Chontales 4 (Janson, Belt); Costa Eica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu, Cache 

 (Rogers); Panama (Boucard), David, Bugaba, Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion). — South 

 Ameeica 123 . 



This is evidently a most variable species, of which, since the description of (E. nica- 

 raguensis was published, many more specimens have been received from the localities 

 quoted above ; the comparison of these examples leaves to me no choice but to look upon 

 them as belonging to one and the same species. (E. decemguttata seems to be a widely 

 distributed species, of which a normally coloured specimen is fairly well figured in 

 Olivier's 'Entomology'; the specimens figured here differ from the type in having 

 bands instead of spots in a more or less well-marked degree, which, if connected, give 



