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MESOMPHALIA. ‘137 
Elytra regularly convex; each with two broad vitte, confluent poste- 
riorly, and the sutural and lateral margins broadly, black: species 
moderately large; male and female rotundate . . . . . . . . quadrivittata, 
Prothorax very feebly emarginate in front; elytra regularly convex. [n. sp. 
Elytra moderately broadly margined : species ovate or oblong. . 
The prothorax with a small median spot, and the elytra with a {shaped 
mark on the outer part of the disc, black . . . . exclamationis, 
The prothorax with a small median black spot, the elytra without a [LTinn. 
black mark on the outer part of the dise . . . . . . . . « evanida, Boh. 
Elytra more broadly margined : male rotundate, female ovate. 
_ The prothorax with a narrow median vitta and the lateral margins 
posteriorly black. 
The elytra with the suture throughout, an uninterrupted line on 
the outer part of the disc, and the exterior limb at the base, 
black . 2. w/w wee eee . . . . . nigrolineata,n.sp. 
The elytra with the suture for a short distance below the base, 
and an interrupted line on the outer part of the disc, black . . interrupta, n. sp. 
1. Mesomphalia punicea. (Tab. V. figg. 23,3, 24,9; 25, var. chevrolati, 3 ; 
26, var. elegans, ? .) 
Cyrtonota punicea, Chevr., Dej. Cat. 3rd edit. p. 393°. 
Mesomphalia punicea, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 2877, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 49 *. 
Mesomphalia chevrolati, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 285 °, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 497. | 
Cassida purpureomaculata, Sturm, in litt.* 
Hab. Mexico !~" (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Santecomapan, Vera Cruz (Sallé), Cordova 
| (Sallé, Hoge), Misantla (Hoge, F. D. G.), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Frontera and Teapa in 
Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Brrrish Honpuras, Belize, R. Sarstoon, R. Hondo (Blancaneauz); 
GuATEMALA, Yzabal (Sal/é), Cubilguitz, Lanquin, Cahabon, Chacoj, Teleman, Panzos, San 
Juan, and Senahu, all in Vera Paz ( Champion) ; Honpuras ? (Dyson *). 
Var. The elytral spots small, the lateral one distant from the shoulder; the punctuation of the elytra finer. 
(Tab. V. fig. 26, 2.) 
Mesomphalia elegans, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. i. p. 284°, and iv. p. 184°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 49". 
Hab. Mexico 9-4, Tepansacualco in Oaxaca (Sallé), Acapulco and Tapachula ([ége) ; 
GuatEMa.a (Sallé), El Reposo, Zapote (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 
M. punicea, in its typical form, is an abundant insect in the forest-region of the 
Atlantic slope. MW. chevrolati and M. elegans, Boh., the types of which are before me 
(male of the former, and female of the latter), are varieties of the same species; the 
first-enamed has the disc of the elytra more coarsely punctured than usual, and the 
