256 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT. 
27 (a). Doryphora stabilis. (Tab. XLI. fig. 17.) 
Obscure eneous; the antenne and legs fulvous; the thorax sparingly punctured, greenish-seneous ; elytra 
flavous, finely punctate-striate, the suture broadly, the lateral margins, a large transverse patch anteriorly, 
connected with the sutural stripe at the middle, and an equally large subtriangular pointed patch below 
the middle, brownish-seneous. , 
Length 33-4 lines. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba in Chiriqui (Champion). 
D. stabilis is a comparatively small species which may be best compared with 
D. chontalensis, Jac., an insect resembling it in size and, to a certain extent, in the 
elytral markings. The markings, however, in D. stabilis occupy almost the entire disc, 
and are interrupted only by narrow flavous stripes of the ground-colour ; the anterior 
patch has the appearance of two broad elongate spots joined together and to the sutural 
stripe at the middle; the posterior spot is angulate and pointed at its apex. The 
underside and the femora are more or less stained with greenish-eneous; the mesosternal 
process is strong and rather long, and generally fulvous in colour. 
ELYTROSPHERA (p. 260). 
6. Elytrosphera tibialis. 
Prosicela tibialis, huj. op. p. 241. 
To the Mexican locality given, add :—Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
The two specimens obtained by Mr. Smith differ considerably from the type in the 
elytral pattern: the posterior black bands are broken up into stripes, and there is an 
additional submarginal stripe; the posterior transverse black band is much narrower. 
The posterior portion of the elytra may be described as testaceous, with three narrow 
brown or black stripes, which are joined at the apex; all the femora are fulvous at the 
base. In other respects the Chilpancingo specimens agree with the type. 
7. Elytrosphera marginicollis. (Tab. XLI. fig. 18.) 
Oblong-ovate, widened posteriorly, greenish-seneous; the basal joints of the antenne, the base of the femora, 
and the apex of the tibie, more or less, fulvous; thorax minutely punctured, the lateral margins flavous ; 
elytra testaceous, marked with narrow dark stripes, which are interrupted at the middle by a pale 
zigzag band. 
Length 4-5 lines. 
Head sparingly punctured, obscure seneous or purplish; antenne more than half the length of the body, black, 
the lower two joints fulvous beneath; thorax transverse, the sides rather strongly rounded and dilated 
the anterior angles produced, the surface obscure seneous, here and there with a purplish tint, extremely 
finely and sparingly punctured, the lateral margins rather broadly flavous, the flavous portion somewhat 
swollen ; scutellum broad, impunctate, purplish or greenish; elytra widened posteriorly, finely punctured 
in rather regular double rows, each elytron with a subsutural and a submarginal purplish-sneous stripe, 
and about seven or eight other stripes scattered over the rest of the surface, the latter of irregular length, 
joined at the base and apex, and closely placed, but interrupted at the middle by a transverse zigzag band 
