316 PHYTOPHAGA.—SUPPLEMENT.| 
6 (a). Homopheta simulans. (Tab. XLII. five. 24, 25.) - 
Fulvous; the antennz, the four anterior legs, and the posterior tibiee black ; elvtra metallic bluish, each with . 
six more or less elongate pale flavous spots (2.2.2). 
Var. a. The elytral spots partly coalescent. 
Var. b. The elytra entirely metallic blue. 
Length 33 lines. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango, Tapachula i in Chiapas (H6ge). 
This species, at first sight, closely resembles H. wquinoctialis, but differs from it in 
the following particulars: the antenne are much shorter, only reaching a little beyond 
the base of the elytra, all the joints being much less elongate; the elytra are more 
depressed, and the spots (although similarly placed) are more elongate and often partly 
confluent. | 
In the var. 6 the elytra are entirely metallic blue. 
8. Homopheta violacea. 
Black, the base of thie head, the clypeus, thorax, femora, and last abdominal segment fulvous; elytra violaceous 
or dark blue, scarcely perceptibly punctured. 
Length 34 lines. 
Of broad, "moderately convex shape; the head with a few fine punctures, a large frontal patch and the clypeus 
fulvous, the rest of the surface and the palpi black; antenne black, not quite extending to the middle of. 
the elytra, the third and fourth joints equal, wider than the others ; thorax more than twice as broad as 
long, the sides but slightly rounded, narrowed in front, very narrowly margined, the anterior angles 
blunt, but little produced forwards, the surface convex, entirely impunctate, fulvous ; elytra very slightly 
depressed below the base, extremely minutely punctured, the punctuation only visible under a strong lens ; 
underside black, the flanks of the thorax, the sides and apex of the last abdominal segments, and the 
femora fulvous ; metatarsus of posterior legs long, the claw-joint but little swollen. 
Hab. Mextco, Omilteme and Xucumanatlan, both in Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 
The system of coloration, the characteristic fulvous frontal patch, the scarcely mar- 
gined thorax, and the structure of the posterior tarsi are the chief characters of this 
Homopheta, of which two specimens were obtained. It cannot be mistaken for the 
blue variety of H. simulans, as it is very much wider, has a more transversely shaped 
thorax, and is black (instead of fulvous) below. 
CEDIONYCHIS (p. 407). 
(£dionychis reichei (p. 408). 
To the Mexican localities given, add :—Tapachula i in Chiapas (Hage). 
(Edionychis ceracollis (p. 408). 
(. ceracollis is not mentioned by Crotch or Dr. Horn, and it is therefore probable 
that it is not an Aidionychis at all. 
The specimens I referred to it were labelled . ceracollis, Say, in Sallé’s collection. 
