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shining and not granulate. The specimens which I consider to be the females of the 
same species are larger, more pointed posteriorly, and have the legs fulvous and the 
elytra entirely devoid of lateral coste (this character separating the female of WV. bella 
from that of most other species of the genus). 
The bright golden-yellow colour, the rounded sides of the thorax, and the crowded 
punctures of the upper surface will help to distinguish the male, of which a single 
example has been kindly given me by Mr. Flohr. 
32. Noda congregata. 
Oblong-ovate, black ; above metallic dark blue, the basal joints of the antenne fulvous; thorax transverse, 
its surface crowded with oblong punctures ; elytra closely and finely punctate-striate. 
Length 14 line. 
Head finely and remotely punctured ; the anterior edge of the clypeus but slightly concave-emarginate ; labrum 
and mandibles nearly black ; antenne less than half the length of the body, black, the lower three joints 
fulvous, the terminal ones gradually thickened ; thorax twice as broad as long, the anterior lateral portion 
rather strongly deflexed, the sides much rounded, the anterior angles slightly produced, the posterior 
angles simple, the anterior and posterior margins somewhat produced at the middle, the entire surface 
very closely covered with oblong punctures, the punctures equal in size throughout; scutellum smooth ; 
elytra rather broadly ovate and convex, the shoulders prominent, the disc impressed with very regular 
and rather close rows of fine somewhat distantly placed punctures; underside and legs black; tarsi 
piceous ; prosternum strongly narrowed between the coxex. 
~ Hab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
A very distinct species, of which only a single specimen (apparently a female) was 
obtained. The crowded punctuation of the thorax, its anteriorly deflexed shape, and 
the black underside and legs, are the chief characters of V. congregata. 
SPINTHEROPHYTA (p. 122). 
Spintherophyta lesueuri (p. 122). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
5. Spintherophyta thoracica. 
Noda thoracica, Jac. huj. op. p. 116 (Aug. 1881). 
Spintherophyta cyanea, Lefévre, Compt.-rend. Soc. Ent, Belg. 1884, p. exciti. 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 
Morelia in Michoacan (Hége). 
The sexes of this species seem to differ somewhat in the strength of the punctuation 
of the thorax; in some specimens the tibie are almost entirely fulvous, but this colour is 
restricted in the type of S. cyanea, Lefévre, to the base of the femora. The insect is of 
a dark blue colour, the thorax being more opaque, and closely and strongly punctured. 
The name thoracica has three years’ priority over that of cyaned ; the species is rightly 
included in Spintherophyta by Lefévre. 
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