74 . PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
but in its shape, size, and sculpturing it approaches MZ. metallica. In the last-named 
species the thorax is, however, less straight at the sides and subangulate near the 
base; the elytra are more finely and much less regularly punctured and devoid of 
the green metallic band ; and the legs are fulvous. 
Five specimens, captured in April 1888. 
COSCINOPTERA (p. 31). 
Coscinoptera cribrata (p. 31). 
To the locality Mexico, add :—Presidio (Forrer), El Camaron (Saldé), Cordova, Zapotlan 
in Colima, Cuernavaca, Matamoros Izucar, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (Hége), Temax in 
North Yucatan (Gaumer). 
2. Coscinoptera zneipennis. 
Coscinoptera eneipennis, Lec. Journ. Ac. Phil. iv. p. 26 (1858)*; Crotch, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1873, 
p. 28°. . 
Hab. Norra America, California’, Texas*—Muxico, Pachuca in Hidalgo (Hoge), 
Guanajuato (Sal/é). 
The Mexican specimens before me agree entirely with those from North America 
contained in my collection. The thorax in this species is longer than in C. cribrata, 
and has a smooth narrow central line; the elytra are almost regularly punctate-striate* ; 
and the general size of the insect is much larger than that of C. cribrata. 
8. Coscinoptera dominicana. 
Clythra dominicana, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. ii. p. 34°; Oliv. Entom. vi. p. 864, t. 2. f. 28. 
Coscinoptera dominicana, Lac. Monogr. in Mém. Soc. Liége, v. p. 515 °; Crotch, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1873, 
p- 29°. 
Hab. Nortsa Averica !23 4.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison). 
The Sonoran specimens are considerably smaller than those from North America in 
my collection. 
4, Coscinoptera purpurea. (Tab. XXXVI. fig. 25.) 
Obscure purplish, densely pubescent below, more finely pubescent above; antenne and legs fulvous; thorax 
twice as broad as long, finely punctured as well as the elytra. 
Length 13-23 lines. 
Hab. Panama (Boucard), Bugaba, David, Tolé (Champion). 
C. purpurea seems to differ from the preceding and other species of the genus by the 
upper surface being dark purplish in colour and clothed with very fine whitish pubes- 
* In Crotch’s description the elytra are stated to be ‘ subseriate, impunctate,” instead of “ subseriate- 
punctate.” | 
