126 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
abdomen and the pygidium, as well as the legs, remain pale yellowish. We figure two 
examples, one of the typical form and one of the var. 0. 
Scolochrus suffriani (p. 60). 
Var. 2. The anterior edge of the thorax narrowly flavous ; elytra black, with a quadrate whitish sutural spot 
at the base. 
Hab. Mexico, Iguala in Guerrero (Hége). 
- J must refer a female example of a Scolochrus lately received to S. suffriani, with the 
type of which, a male, it agrees in its principal characters, although differing from it in 
colour. The eyes in this female specimen are, as usual, more widely separated than 
those of the male, while the thorax is shorter and more transversely shaped ; the latter is 
coloured exactly as in the type, with the exception of having the anterior edge narrowly 
flavous; the elytra are more regularly punctured than in the male, and the black portion 
predominates to such an extent as to leave only a whitish quadrate sutural patch at the 
base ; and the pygidium and the abdominal segments are yellowish, as in the type. It 
is probable that S. suffriani is as variable in colour as most of the species of Scolochrus. 
In the allied S. cazicus the pygidium is black. 
Scolochrus decoratus (p. 61). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer) ; 
GuatemaLa, Panzos (Conradt). 
Another variety of this species has been received from Yucatan, this having the 
elytra entirely black. Entirely fulvous specimens, as well as normally coloured or 
spotted ones and the black variety, were received from Mr. Gaumer. 
13 (a). Scolochrus panamensis. (Tab. XXXVIII. fig. 8.) 
Black ; thorax finely punctured, the sides red and closely and more strongly punctate; elytra closely punctate- 
striate, a quadrate spot at the shoulders, and the apex, red; abdomen, pygidium, and the underside of the 
femora yellowish-white. 
Length 2 lines. 
Q. Head entirely black, very finely and rather closely punctured ; antenne slender, black, the terminal joints 
not thickened ; thorax about two and a half times broader than long, narrowing from the middle to the 
apex, the dise black and closely and finely punctured, the sides broadly red, strongly punctured, and with 
a shallow oblique depression ; scutellum black, very finely punctured ; elytra slightly narrowed posteriorly, 
the punctures strong and closely placed in rows, those near the suture irregularly arranged, black, a large 
quadrate spot occupying the shoulders and the entire lateral lobe, and a round spot at the apex, red ; 
underside finely pubescent, the entire abdomen and the pygidium almost white; legs black, with the 
exception of the underside of the four posterior femora and the base of their tibie. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
S. panamensis, of which two female specimens only were obtained, may be distinguished 
from S. purpurascens by the thorax being glabrous at the sides and also differently 
