192 . PHYTOPHAGA. 
15. Coptocycla opulenta. (Tab. X. fig. 12.) 
Coptocycla opulenta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 191', and iv. p. 416°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 168°. | 
Hab. Muxico 1-8, Cordova (Sallé), Misantla, Jalapa (Hége); GuaTemaLa, Cerro Zunil 
(Champion). 
This species is extremely closely allied to C. amena, Boh., from which it differs in 
the very much broader annulus of the elytra, with the enclosed flavous space more 
finely and more remotely seriate-punctate; it is also smaller. Boheman’s description 
must have been made from a light-coloured example: in most of the numerous 
specimens before me the annulus is bordered externally with black (not entirely 
sanguineous); and the sutural stripe (as in C. amena) is dilated below the base, 
forming a common ovate spot, which is sometimes partly or entirely black. The 
third joint of the antenne is elongate. A specimen from Misantla is figured. The 
metamorphoses of this species have been described and figured by Dr. E. Dugés (Ann. 
Soc. Ent. Belg. 1887, pp. 145, 146, t. 2. figg. 11-13), who states that it lives upon 
L[pomea murucoides *. 
16. Coptocycla tricolorata. (Tab. X. fig. 13.) 
Subrotundate, convex, dilute flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with a 
- rather narrow, transverse, black or sanguineous patch at the base; the scutellum sanguineous; the elytra 
- with a very broad annulus—sanguineous or castaneous, and bordered externally to a greater or less extent 
with black, sometimes almost entirely sanguineous—reaching to beyond the middle, obliquely truncate on 
either side behind, and extending some distance along the suture towards the apex, and enclosing a 
common rounded flavous patch, which is sometimes divided by a very narrow dilute sanguineous sutural 
stripe; the antennz flavous, with the apical joint slightly infuscate at the tip; the legs and under 
surface flavous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the apical five joints a little thickened, joint 8 much 
longer than 2. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and 
in front, smooth, the disc obsoletely canaliculate before the base and very faintly depressed on either side 
of the median lobe. Elytra nearly three times the length of the prothorax, and much wider than it, 
deeply sinuate-emarginate at the base, conjointly rounded at the apex, with prominent humeri; the disc 
convex, deeply foveate before the middle, and hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, with a deep 
sutural stria posteriorly, rather remotely seriate-punctate, the punctures fine towards the suture, coarse 
and deep at the sides, and almost obsolete on the flavous apical portion, the interstices smooth and flat; 
the margins very broadly expanded, becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth and reticulate, 
separated from the disc by a row of closely placed fovese. Claws simple. 
Length 53-63, breadth 47-53 millim. 
Hab. British Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneaus); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, 
Janson). 
‘Ten specimens. This insect is very closely allied to, and perhaps only a variety of, 
C. opulenta, Boh.; from which it differs in having the discoidal flavous patch on the 
elytra entirely yellow, or with the suture, at most (even in the darkest specimens), very 
* Cf. Biol. Centr.-Am., Botany, 11. p. 390, t. 61. 
