492 PHYTOPHAGA. 



coloured spot being visible at the apex, a longitudinal slightly raised narrow line 

 (evidently caused by light-coloured pubescence), commencing at the shoulder but not 

 extending quite to the apex, divides the other bands at some distance from the lateral 

 margin ; all the femora are marked with a piceous spot at the middle, and the apices of 

 the tibiae are more or less fuscous. In the Guatemalan specimen the antennae are 

 rather shorter, and the pale fulvous elytral spots are replaced by greyish pubescence ; 

 the darker portion of this latter is in the shape of a spot at the base ; another spot at 

 the middle near the suture and two or three others at the apex of the elytra are plainly 

 visible to the naked eye, these markings agreeing entirely with the specimen from Mexico. 



7. Galerucella godmani. (Tab. xxvm. fig. 4.) 



Fuscous ; the first joint of the antennae and the legs testaceous ; thorax obscure testaceous, with three fuscous 

 spots ; elytra densely pubescent, closely punctured, fuscous, each with a longitudinal narrow and a broader 

 testaceous line. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head depressed at the middle of the vertex, the latter fuscous, the lower part of the face testaceous ; clypeus 

 in the form of a V-shaped, transverse, strongly raised ridge ; antenna? short and stout, the intermediate 

 joints slightly widened, black, the two basal ones testaceous below ; thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long, finely pubescent and rugose, the sides very slightly rounded near the base, the posterior margin 

 sinuate on each side, the angles obtuse, the disc with the usual shallow lateral and central depressions, 

 and three rounded obscure fuscous spots ; scutellum transverse ; elytra much more distinctly rugosely 

 punctured than the thorax, closely pubescent, near the suture a narrow slightly raised pale line divides 

 the darker portion, and a similar, much broader, and flat testaceous stripe is placed towards the sides, 

 neither of these lines extending quite to the apex ; the underside, the extreme apices of the tibiae, and 

 the tarsi are fuscous, the legs testaceous. 



Hab. Guatemala, Pantaleon {Champion). A single specimen. 



This species is of a parallel and rather flattened shape, and may be known by the 

 two pale elytral stripes being of different width. 



OPHILEA. 



Antennae with short joints, slightly thickened towards the apex. Thorax transverse, of variable shape, the 

 posterior angles oblique, the sides often angulate at or before the middle ; the surface with a lateral 

 and a central depression, finely rugose and pubescent. Elytra nearly impubescent, closely and generally 

 finely rugose. Tibiae unarmed ; claws bifid. Anterior coxal cavities open. 



It is not expedient, in my opinion, to place the following insects (with their different 

 general appearance, shorter antennae, and finely rugose and nearly impubescent elytra) 

 in the genus Galerucella, in which the upper surface is closely covered with hairs, and 

 the antennae are longer and more slender. Although not all the species described here 

 under the genus Ophrwa are of the same shape, in regard to the thorax, yet all agree 

 in the rugose and sometimes metallic elytra. It may be as well to mention here that 

 0. subcostata, 0. rugosa, and 0. arnea are of a more posteriorly dilated shape, resembling 

 in that respect a species of Galeruca (Adimonia), while the other species are more 



