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one smaller and rounded), and one on either side of the disc about the middle (strongly transverse and 
almost in a line with the C-shaped basal one)—black or piceous; the elytra usually with an oblong 
piceous spot on the humeral callus; the antenne testaceous, joints 3-7 usually more or less infuscate 
above ; the legs testaceous, the femora largely marked with black (except on their lower side), the tibiw 
with a black line along their outer edge; the body beneath black, the sides broadly (a transverse patch 
on each ventral segment excepted), and also the prosternal process, testaceous. Head grooved between 
the eyes, thickly and somewhat coarsely punctured below; antenne rather stout, reaching to the base of 
the prothorax, joints 3 and 4 elongate, equal in length, 3 twice as long as 2, 5-10 slightly decreasing in 
length, stouter than 4, 11 much longer than 10, acuminate. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, 
bisinuate at the base, with the median lobe broad and rounded, the sides very abruptly and rather 
obliquely converging anteriorly, strongly rounded behind, the apex rounded; the lateral and apical 
margins very broadly expanded, reticulate, the lateral margins transversely hollowed before and behind 
the middle; the disc obsoletely canaliculate and transversely depressed before the base ; the surface very 
sparsely, minutely punctured, the punctures a little more distinct on the basal portion of the disc. 
Scutellum almost smooth. Elytra one half wider than, and three times as long as, the prothorax, a little 
longer in the female, narrowing from about the basal fourth, conjointly rounded at the apex, the humeri 
broadly rounded; the margins very broadly expanded, deeply hollowed below the base internally, 
reticulate ; the disc irregularly, rather closely, and somewhat coarsely punctured, and with an irregular 
row of deep fovee separating it from the margins, the latter more finely and more sparsely punctured. 
Beneath almost smooth. 
Length 194-213, breadth 16-17 millim. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica, Santa Clara (Orozco, in 
Mus. Brit.). 
I have seen six examples of this very large species, which is much larger and broader 
than P. gigantea, Boh. P. pellucida, Wag., from Demerara, about equals it in size; 
but it differs in several particulars from the insect here described. The two specimens 
in Mr. O. E. Janson’s collection are labelled with the name I have adopted. 
7. Physonota stigmatilis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 16.) 
Physonota stigmatilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2047, and iv. p. 249°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 99°. 
Hab. Mxxico !~%, Cordova, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); 
GuatemaLa, Volcan de Atitlan (Champion). | 
8. Physonota incrustata. 
Physonota incrustata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 203°, and iv. p. 2497; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 99°. 
‘‘Subovata, modice convexa, supra dilute flavo-testacea, subtus nigra, testaceo-variegata ; antennis extrorsum 
nigris; prothorace levi, confertim nigro-maculato, margine late explanato, subremote punctulato; elytris 
mediocriter, vage punctatis, dorso fuscis, maculis albidis variegatis, subtus basi apiceque nigris ; pedibus 
testaceis, nigro-variegatis.—Long. 15, lat. 12 millim.” 
Hab. Mexico 1-°. 
Unknown to me. The specimen in the British Museum determined as P. incrustata 
by Boheman °, not the actual type, seems to be only a discoloured male specimen of 
