HOMOPHYLA. | 809 
1 (a). Homophyla nigrita. 
Ovate, very convex, piceous, above black; the three basal joints of the antenne, and the terminal joint also, 
fulvous; the head and thorax impunctate; elytra rather distantly punctate-striate, the apex nearly 
impunctate ; the anterior legs fulvous. 
Var. Entirely obscure fulvous. 
Length 1 line. 
Hab. Muxico, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith). 
This small species differs from H. variabilis by its general smaller size, the colour of 
the antenne, and the more distinct and more scattered elytral punctuation ; these 
characters are constant in the numerous specimens obtained. H. variabilis also occurs 
at 'Teapa. 
1 (zs). Homophyla fulvifrons. 
Piceous or black, the head, antennw, and anterior legs fulvous ; thorax extremely closely and finely punctured ; 
elytra finely and regularly punctate-striate. 
Length 1-1} line. 
Head very finely and rather closely punctured, fulvous, without frontal tubercles, the carina distinct, broad ; 
antenne scarcely half the length of the body, entirely fulvous, the second and third joints small, equal, 
the others slightly longer and thickened; thorax more than twice as broad as long, narrowed in front, 
the sides straight, the surface extremely closely and finely punctured; elytra regularly and distinctly 
punctate-striate, the strie rather widely separated; posterior tibia deeply sulcate, with the usual acute 
tooth below the middle; the first joint of the posterior tarsi rather longer than the other joints together. 
Hab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
This insect seems to differ from all the numerous varieties of H. variabilis, and also 
from H. nigrita, by the fulvous and closely punctured head, the fulvous antenne, and 
the regularly and remotely punctured elytra. The male is of subparallel, somewhat 
cylindrical shape, the female being more broadly, ovate. Two specimens, one of each 
sex, were obtained at Atoyac; a female of much larger size, but not differing in any 
other way, was captured at Xucumanatlan. 
1 (c). Homophyla chiriquensis. | 
Oblong, slightly narrowed posteriorly, black ; antenne fulvous; the thorax nearly impunctate ; the elytra 
strongly and closely punctate-striate. 
Length 1 line. 
Head impunctate ; antenne entirely fulyous, extending to the middle of the elytra, the second and third joints 
equal; thorax transverse, short, the sides straight, the anterior angles thickened but scarcely oblique, 
the posterior margin sinuate on each side, the surface extremely minutely punctured, the punctuation only 
visible under a strong lens; elytra comparatively strongly and closely punctured in rows; legs piceous 
or black, the coxee and the knees more or less dark fulvous ; posterior tibize strongly dilated beyond the 
middle, toothed before the apex; prosternum impunctate. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba in Chiriqui (Champion). 
Closely allied to H. fulvifrons; the head black, the thorax scarcely perceptibly 
punctured, the elytra more strongly punctate. From H. nigrita it may be distinguished 
by the colour of the antenne and legs. 
