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scarce, single specimens only having been obtained at most of the localities quoted. 
The antenne are short, only extending to the base of the prothorax; the third joint 
is not longer than the second. The margins of the prothorax form almost a continuous 
outline with those of the elytra. 
31. Coptocycla atroannulus. (Tab. X. figg. 27, 9; 27a, antenna.) 
Subrotundate (3), broad ovate (2), moderately convex, flavous or flavo-testaceous, shining, the margins 
subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with a large black basal patch, rounded anteriorly and 
occupying fully half the disc; the scutellum varying in colour from flavo-testaceous to black ; the elytra 
with a broad black oblong annulus on the outer part of the disc, extending to near the apex, and enclosing 
a large, oval, flavo-testaceous or sanguineous patch; the antenne flavous, with the apical joint black at 
the tip ; heneath and the legs flavous or flavo-testaceous. Antenne moderately long, slender, the apical five 
joints a little thickened, joint 3 slightly longer than 2. Prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, broadly 
expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, and very obliquely truncate on either side at the base, 
almost smooth, the disc obsoletely canaliculate and feebly depressed at the base on either side of the 
median lobe. Elytra very much broader than the prothorax, and nearly three times as long as it, 
conjointly rounded at the apex in both sexes, and very deeply emarginate at the base, with prominent 
humeri; the disc moderately convex, slightly hollowed at the sides behind the humeral callus, with a 
deep sutural stria posteriorly, seriate-punctate—the punctures fine and approximate towards the suture, 
rather coarse and subremote at the sides, and almost obsolete before the apex,—the interstices smooth 
and fiat; the margins very broadly expanded, becoming gradually narrower towards the apex, smooth 
and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of moderately deep fover. Claws simple. 
Length 7-74, breadth 63-7 millim. 
Hab. British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaur); GuatemaLa, Senahu in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Nicaracva, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Costa Rica (Van Patten) ; 
Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Eleven examples. This insect bears a deceptive resemblance to C. circumducta, 
Boh., but it may be at once distinguished from that species by the more elongate third 
joint of the antenne: (in C. circwmducta the third joint is shorter than the second); it 
is also smaller, with shorter antenne and a narrower annulus to the elytra, the latter 
not at all gibbous anteriorly, almost smooth at the apex, and not broadly subtruncate 
behind in the male. Numerous closely allied South-American species have been 
described by Boheman. We figure an example from Bugaba. 
32. Coptocycla cingulata. (Tab. XI. fig. 1.) 
Coptocycla cingulata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 414’. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé 1). 
The three specimens in the Sallé collection are all I have seen of this species. ‘The 
antenne are moderately long and subfiliform, with the second and third joints equal in 
length, the third nearly as stout as the second. © 
33. Coptocycla ambita. (Tab. XI. fig. 2.) 
Subrotundate, moderately convex, flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline; the eyes black; the prothorax 
with a rather large transverse black patch at the base, which is rounded anteriorly ; the scutellum black ; 
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