174 PHYTOPHAGA. 
27. Physonota calcarata. (Tab. IX. fig. 10,3.) | 
Omoplata calcarata, Boh. » Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 138°, and iv. P- 226°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 90°. 
Physonota calcarata, Boh. Monogr. C Cassid. ii. P. 227 *, and iv. p. 258°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 102°. 
Physonota spinipes, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 2287, and iv. p. 258°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus, 
ix. p. 102°, | | 
Hab. Mexico? 35& (coll. Sommer14; coll. Baly), Xucumanatlan in Guerrero (H. H. 
Smith), Yolos in Oaxaca (Sallé), Oaxaca ® 9 (Deppe, in Mus. Berol."). 
There can be little doubt that the above synonymy is correct. P. spinipes seems — 
» only to differ from P. calcarata in having the markings on the prothorax reduced in size 
—the median one in the form of a short vitta (instead of an anchor-shaped mark) and 
the lateral ones C-shaped. This is the only species of Cassidide known to me in 
which the tibie are very broadly subangularly dilated at the apex. 
PLATYCYCLA. 
Platycycla, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 240 (1854). 
This genus contains but a single species, peculiar to Central America. It is closely 
allied to Physonota, especially to such species as P. ewcalypta, P. translucida, &c., but 
differs from it in the more slender, filiform antenne, joints 4-10 of which are relatively 
more elongate, and in its more circular shape; the elytra are also much more deeply 
emarginate at the base, and the prothorax is very obliquely truncate on either side 
behind. 
1. Platycycla deruta. 
Platycycla deruta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 241, t. 5. figg. F, 1-5', and iv. p- 254°; Cat. Col. 
Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 104°. 
Hab. Muxico1~%, San Andres Tuxtla and Playa Vicente, both in Vera Cruz (Sallé), 
Minatitlan in Vera ‘Cruz (Hoge), Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guaremata, Coban, 
Chacoj, Teleman, and San Ger6nimo in Vera Paz (Champion), Panzos in Vera Paz 
(Conradt).. Pouvle Gf fn 2 Pas Saw ity 
This fine species is not uncommon on the Atlantic slope of Guatemala and Southern 
Mexico. 
EURYPEPLA. 
Eurypepla, Boheman, Monogr. Cassid. ii. p. 236 (1854). 
Three species are referred to this genus by Boheman, two from the Antilles and one 
from Yucatan. 
