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Duefias (Champion); Honpuras (Dyson*); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; 
Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, David (Cham- 
pton).—Sovuta America to Brazil; ANTILLES, Cuba 3-5, San Domingo 7°, Jamaica ¢ 5. 
Var. a. The elytra with almost the entire disc black, obscure castaneous, or castaneous, with a broad similarly 
coloured ramus extending across the margins to the humeri and a narrow stripe along the suture to the 
apex, the light markings sometimes faintly indicated ; the prothorax with a broad black or castaneous 
basal patch, which is rounded, emarginate, or truncate in front. (Fig. 20.) 
Cassida fuliginosa, Oliv. Ent. vi. p. 971. no. 97, t. 1. fig. 8". 
Coptocycla immunita, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 318", and iv. p. 446; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182%. 
Coptocycla trabeata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 319"*, and iv. p. 446"; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix, p. 1827°, 
Hab. Norra America!4—16—Mexico} 16 (Chevrolat 4), Yucatan 12 13 ( Pilate #4), Temax 
in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemata, Las Mercedes and Zapote (Champion) ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt).—AnTILLES, Guadeloupe !° 
Var. 8. The elytra with an oblique sinuous castaneous stripe on the outer part of the disc, usually bordered 
with piceous below the humeral callus, extending broadly across the margins to the humeri, and with 
or without irregular rami extending inwards, the suture also narrowly bordered with castaneous or rufo- 
testaceous at the apex ; the markings on the prothorax faint or obsolete. (Fig. 21.) 
Coptocycla immunda, Beh. Monogr. Cassid. ili. p. 320", and iv. p. 447'°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182”. 
Coptocycla lucidula, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 821”, and iv. p. 4477; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 182”. 
Hab. Nortu AMeERIcA?°—?2,—MeExico 17-19, Gnanajuato, Playa Vicente (Sallé), Teapa 
(Sallé, H. H. Smith), Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Guatemata, Duefias 
(Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
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This very variable and widely distributed species was incorrectly identified by Boheman 
with C. guttata (Oliv.) (=cruciata, Fabr., nec Linn.), as may be at once seen by a com- 
parison of his description with Olivier’s figures (Ent. vi. no. 97, t. 1. figg. 134, 6), 
C. guitata having the elytral margins subhyaline throughout. Olivier in his second 
description of C. guttata (Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 955), which is based upon more than one 
example, quotes C. cruciata, Fabr. (nec Linn.), as a synonym, and states that the insect 
is from Tropical America, and is contained in the Banksian cabinet. The specimens 
he mentions are still extant: one, from which his figures were no doubt taken, is the 
eastern C. serguttata (Boisd.), Boh., the other the Mexican C. eatensa, Boh.; the name 
guttata, Oliv., therefore, will have to be applied to C. sexguttata, Boisd. There can be 
no doubt that the description and figure of C. signifera, Herbst, apply to our insect, 
and I accordingly adopt that name for it. C. trabeata (of which I have seen a Mexican 
specimen from Chevrolat in the British Museum) and C. lucidula, Boh., have already 
been sunk as varieties of C. signifera, and Ihave no hesitation in adding C. hamulata, 
