202 . PHYTOPHAGA. 
longer than the second. The elytra have three small fuscous or piceous spots—one 
just behind the scutellum and one on either side of the suture a little lower down; the 
suture itself is narrowly testaceous. An example from Teapa is figured. 
38. Coptocycla diophthalma. (Tab. XI. fig. 7.) . 
Subrotundate, convex, dilute flavous, shining, the margins subhyaline; the eyes black; the prothorax with a 
transverse blackish-brown patch at the base, which is excised on either side in front ; the scutellum 
blackish-brown ; the elytra with a very large, octagonal, blackish-brown patch on the disc—extending 
to considerably beyond the middle and outwardly to the humeral callus, abruptly narrowed behind, and 
truncate at the apex,—marked with a small oblong flavous spot on either side of the suture before the 
| middle, the suture testaceous throughout ; the antenne flavous, with the apical two joints Piceous ; the 
legs and under surface flavous. Antenne rather short and slender, thickening outwardly, extending very 
little beyond the base of the prothorax, joints 2 and 3 equal in length, 3 not nearly so stout as 2. Pro- 
thorax twice as broad as long, broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, smooth, the disc 
deeply, obliquely grooved at the base on either side of the broad median lobe, Elytra about two and a 
half times the length of the prothorax, and at the sides forming almost a continuous outline with it, 
moderately deeply emarginate at the base, conjointly rounded at the apex, with the humeri sharp and 
prominent; the disc convex, subremotely seriate-punctate, the punctures (those of the sutural row 
excepted) fine towards the suture, closer and much coarser at the sides, and almost obsolete on the flavous 
apical portion, the interstices quite flat, smooth; the margins broadly expanded, becoming very narrow 
at the apex, smooth and reticulate, separated from the disc by a row of distantly placed fovex, and deeply 
hollowed before the middle internally. Claws simple. 
Length 44, breadth 32 millim. 
Hab. Muxico, Acapulco (Hoége). 
One example only of this peculiarly-coloured small species has been received. It is 
allied to C. bonvouloiri, Boh., but has more distinctly and less remotely punctured 
elytra, and is also very differently coloured. The blackish-brown markings on the 
prothorax and elytra form a common octagonal patch, the elytra having the suture 
testaceous and a small yellow spot on either side of it before the middle. The punc- 
tures of the sutural row are deep and rather widely separated, and they extend to the 
apex. 
39. Coptocycla zona. 
Cassida zona, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 393°. 
Coptocycla zona, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 160’, and iv. p. 406°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. ix. 
p. 165%. 
Cassida annulus, Oliv. Ent. vi. no. 97, p. 969, t. 1. fig. 14°; Herbst, Kafer, viii. p. 272, t. 183. 
fig. 3° (nec Fabr.). 
Cassida flavescens, Latr. in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 35, t. 82. fig. 87. 
Hab. Nicaragua (Sallé); Costa Rica (Sallé); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
David (Champion).—Soutn America’, Cayenne 2-§, Venezuela 34, 
A common insect in Chiriqui. This species has the disc of the elytra olivaceous, 
with a common yellow annulus before the middle. The antenne are rather short, 
with the third joint slender and not longer than the second. 
