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the surface violaceous-black, a round spot at the base, and another at the apex connected with the lateral 

 margin, navous. 

 Length 2 lines. 



Eab. Guatemala, San Geronimo {Champion). 



The antennae have the first four and the last three joints fulvous; the apical spots on 

 the elytra are connected with the narrow flavous lateral margin at the apex, but sepa- 

 rated at the sides by the narrowly protruding point of the ground-colour ; the breast is 

 black at the sides only. A single specimen. 



14. Neobrotica hondurensis. (Tab. XXX. fig. 22.) 



Fulvous, the head, the intermediate joints of the antennae, and the tibiae and tarsi black ; thorax deeply trans- 

 versely grooved ; elytra testaceous, a narrow transverse band at the base, a broader one at the middle, 

 and a semicircular mark at the apex of each, bluish-black. % 



Length 2-2| lines. 



Head black, impunctate ; antennae black, the basal two and the apical three joints fulvous, the third joint 

 double the length of the second ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the disc with a deep sinuate trans- 

 verse groove, impunctate ; scutellum navous ; elytra closely punctured, with some very obsolete longi- 

 tudinal depressions at the sides, testaceous, a narrow transverse band at the base, strongly dentate at its 

 posterior margin, another but broader band at the middle, and a ring-shaped mark near the apex, open 

 behind, bluish-black ; tibiae and tarsi black. 



Hah. British Honduras, E. Hondo (Blancaneauos) ; Guatemala, Cubilguitz (Cham- 

 pion). 



The three examples before me differ somewhat in regard to the elytral markings, 

 these being of a bluish colour in one and black in another specimen ; in the latter the 

 second transverse band is narrower, the punctuation of the elytra is a little stronger, 

 and the breast is black ; in the third specimen (from Guatemala) the posterior dark 

 elytral band is almost entire and only slightly notched at the apex, indicating the ring- 

 shaped mark of the typical form. 



15. Neobrotica simulans. 



Pale fulvous, the head and breast piceous ; thorax impunctate ; elytra finely and closely semipunctate-striate, 

 a narrow transverse band at the base, a broader one at the middle, and a ring-shaped mark near the apex 

 of each, dark blue. 



Length 2 lines. 



Hah. Guatemala, Chacoj in Vera Paz (Champion). 



N. simulans, of which I have only a single specimen for examination, is almost 

 identical in the design of its elytra with the preceding species, but differs from it as 

 follows : the margins of the elytral bands are more regular, not dentate ; the second 

 band, which is separated from the first by a very narrow space, is narrowed and rounded 

 at the suture (in N. hondurensis the corresponding band is narrowed at the sides) ; the 

 ring-shaped marks near the apex are closed and meet at the suture ; and the legs are 

 entirely fulvous. The elytra show traces of longitudinal depressions ; the intermediate 



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