134 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
irregularly punctured, more closely so within the depressions and anteriorly, the posterior margin perfectly 
straight at its middle; scutellum scarcely longer than broad, impunctate, black; elytra strongly and 
comparatively closely punctured, the strie rather irregular, the first row running nearly parallel with the 
suture throughout its entire length, the two or three following rows more irregular and confused together, 
those at the sides regular and scarcely interrupted, the interstices almost imperceptibly granulate, the 
entire disc black and shining, the base with a small yellowish spot on each side near the scutellum; the 
pygidium and the sides of the abdomen white, the rest of the underside black ; legs fulvous, the apices of 
the femora obscure piceous. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba in Chiriqui (Champion). A single specimen. 
29. Scolochrus equestris. 
Cryptocephalus equestris, Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 804, t. 5. f. 70°. 
Scolochrus equestris, Suffr. Monogr. in Linn. Entom. vii. p. 122’. 
Hab. Nortn America! 2,—GvatTeMALa, Petapa (coll. Jacoby). 
Of this, according to Suffrian, extremely rare species I have lately received a specimen 
from the Stuttgart Museum. The description given by Suffrian agrees in all particulars 
with this example, except in some differences in colour. In the Guatemalan specimen 
the pygidium is not black but yellow, and is without spots. The underside is flavous, 
with the exception of the middle and sides of the breast and the centre of the inter- 
mediate abdominal segments. The elytra are deeply and closely punctured, the 
punctures rather regular at the sides and a little more confused and scattered on the 
disc; they have the lateral margin at its posterior two-thirds, as well as three spots 
(2.1), black, but there is no other mark placed near the sides (as Suffrian mentions in 
his description). ‘The thorax is deeply and remotely punctured, and has two black 
spots placed near the middle. 
80. Scolochrus geometricus. (Tab. XX XVIII. fig. 21.) 
Flavous, the breast and legs fulvous; thorax sparingly punctured, with a central and lateral brown mark; 
elytra with brown or black punctured double stris, the interstices near the suture swollen and angularly 
widened, and, like the apex, pale flavous. 
Var. Elytra dark fulvous, the flavous spots smaller. 
Length 13-14 line. 
Head pale, a triangular spot at the vertex, and some narrow stripes round the eyes, dark brown; the latter 
very large and subapproximate; the lower portion of the face with a few dark punctures; antenne 
rather more than half the length of the body, black, the basal joint and part of the second fulvous; thorax 
very short, at least three times as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the disc rather sparingly 
punctured, more closely so near the anterior margin, the surface with a deep transverse sublateral 
depression, pale flavous, the sides with a longitudinal and the disc with a more or less distinct trian- 
gularly-shaped brown band; scutellum raised, its apex truncate, pale brownish; elytra with deep and 
closely-placed double rows of punctures, the punctures surrounding smooth and raised pale flavous spaces, 
these latter defined and placed thus—a short one immediately below the scutellum, not extending to 
the middle, followed by a large, elongate, and triangular space extending to below the middle, and other 
similar but smaller spaces (one, elongate in shape, extending from the middle of the base as far as the 
first sutural space, one, broader and more rounded, below the middle, and one small and triangular, near 
the centre of the lateral margin), the entire apex and the basal and lateral margins also raised and smooth ; 
