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12. Coptocycla wesmaeli. (Tab. X. figg. 6; 7, var.; 8, var. puertlis.) 
Coptocycla wesmaeli, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 2027, and iv. p. 421°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°. 
Hab. Mxxico}-, Cordova (Sallé), Atoyac (H. H. Smith), Misantla, Cerro de Plumas, 
Tapachula (Hége); GuatemaLa, Purula, Panima, and Chacoj in Vera Paz, Zapote 
(Champion). 
Var. a. The elytra with the disc almost to its outer limit black, stained with ferruginous before the apex, and 
sometimes indeterminately ferruginous towards the base. 
Coptocycla wesmaeli, var. a, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 421°. 
Coptocycla scutigerula, Boh. loc. cit. p. 424°. 
Hab. Muxico+, Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hége); Guaremaua (Scherzer, in 
coll. Baly ®). 
Var. 8. The elytra as in a, but with a small oblong spot on the suture a little below the base, and a common 
transverse lunate mark about the middle, yellow. (Fig. 7.) 
Hab. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Hége). 
Var. y. The elytra with the disc castaneous, with a transverse sutural patch before the middle, and the sides 
anteriorly, piceous. 
Coptocycla puerilis, var. b, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 447 °. 
Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente (Sallé °). 
Var. 3. The transverse patch at the base of the prothorax smaller than in the type, and emarginate on either 
side in front, sometimes obsolete; the black oblong annulus on the elytra almost obliterated, represented 
by aslender longitudinal streak on the outer part of the disc, which only extends to about the middle ; 
the ante-median sutural spot reduced in size, and sometimes divided at the suture. (Fig. 8.) 
Coptocycla puerilis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 447°. 
Hab. Mexico, Playa Vicente, Cordova, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé), Atoyac in Vera 
Cruz (H. H. Smith), Cerro de Plumas, Tapachula (Hoge); Guatemaa (coll. Baly’), 
Panima in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Var. e. The elytra as in 6, but with the sutural spot obsolete. 
Coptocycla puerilis, var. a, Boh. loc. cit.* 
Hab. Guatemata (coll. Baly §). 
This variable species has been described under three different names by Boheman, 
C. wesmaeli ana C. scutigerula being separated from C. puerilis by more than one 
hundred species in his monograph. The types of all three forms are before me, and 
they certainly belong to one and the same species. C. wesmaeli, var. a, Boh., and C. scuti- 
gerula do not differ in any way from each other; C. puerilis has the black annulus in 
great part obliterated. Some specimens from Misantla and Tapachula are perfectly 
intermediate between C. wesmaeli and C. puerilis, the annulus being distinctly outlined, 
but faint, on the apical half of the elytra. The third joint of the antenne is elongate. 
