104 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
femora have a yellow spot margined with black near the apex. The three specimens 
lately received agree in these particulars in both sexes. 
Cryptocephalus patheticus (p. 45). (Tab, Il. fig. 17.) 
To the localities given, add :—GvaTEMALa, Zapote, Guatemala city, San Gerénimo, 
Chacoj (Champion), Chinautla (Salvin), Llano grande (mus. Stuttgart); PanaMa, 
Bugaba (Champion). 
As already remarked on p. 45 this species is subject to great variation, and it cannot 
be separated from C. ocellatus by its colour only; the elytra have a few or many yellow 
spots which are arranged as in C. plagiatus and C. 14-pustulatus. C. patheticus may, 
however, be distinguished by the punctured strie being interrupted laterally, and 
separated by a transverse smooth space, a character peculiar to many species of Crypto- 
cephalus. The thorax seems invariably to have the sides marked with flavous and the 
two basal spots more or less plainly visible; but the underside varies from black or 
partially black to flavous. A single specimen from Bugaba, which I refer somewhat 
doubtfully to C. patheticus, has the thorax dark brown, with two lateral subquadrate 
yellow spots, and the two usual ones at the base very strongly marked, and the elytra 
with eight well-developed spots. 
By an oversight the reference to the Plate was omitted on p. 45. The Guatemalan 
examples referred by me to C. rhombeus (p. 52) prove to belong to this species. 
11 (a). Cryptocephalus affinis. 
Flavous; thorax impunctate, fulvous, the sides and spots at the base obscure flavous ; elytra strongly punctate- 
striate, with a transverse lateral smooth space, each with eight large flavous spots (3.2.2.1) divided by 
dark brown narrow bands. | 
Var. The elytral dark bands only indicated by short markings. 
Length 1-2 lines. 
Hab. Mzxico, Iguala, Acapulco (Zége), Tepetlapa in Guerrero (H. H. Smith) ; 
Guatema.a, Chacoj in Vera Paz (Champion). 
At first sight, C. affinis seems only to be a colour-variety of C. patheticus; but as 
all the specimens of both sexes obtained by Herr Hoge agree with each other in the 
following details, I am obliged to separate them from C. patheticus and C. plagiatus. 
The head is flavous, with the usual darker central line at the vertex, and nearly 
impunctate; the antenne extend to beyond the middle of the elytra, and have their 
basal six joints fulvous, the others darker. The thorax is quite impunctate, in the 
male scarcely twice as broad as long, and has the sides strongly deflexed ; the posterior 
angles are acute, but not prolonged ; the disc is darker or paler fulvous, with a trace 
of the usual lighter margins and basal spots; and the posterior margin is narrowly 
edged with black. The elytra in the well-marked specimens have similarly-placed 
and the same number of spots as in the allied forms; the eighth row of punctures. 
