208 PHYTOPHAGA. 
Cerro Zunil, and also at other places in Guatemala, these specimens varying 
in the colour of the under surface—from entirely testaceous or rufo-testaceous 
(C. tuberculata) to rufo-testaceous with the prosternal process, the apical half of the 
metasternum (except at the sides), the basal half of the fifth ventral segment, and 
the base of the femora beneath black. The elytra (in dried examples) vary in 
colour from a dilute vermilion-red to flavo-testaceous; the margins have a large 
oblong flavo-hyaline space before the middle. Boheman’s specimens of all three 
forms have been examined, one of which (his tuberculata) is figured. The closely 
allied C. rubicunda, Boh., from Brazil, differs from the present species in having the 
elytral margins coarsely punctured at the base. The third joint of the antenne is 
elongate in both species. The Costa Rican specimens have the punctures on the 
elytra coarser than usual. The smallest examples measure 7 millim. only in length, 
the largest 10 millim. The locality “Sierra Leone” quoted by the older authors !~° is 
of course a mistake. 
53. Coptocycla ventricosa. (Tab. XI. fig. 19, ¢.) 
Coptocycla ventricosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. 11. p. 394’, and iv. p. 462”; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 190°. 
Hab. Mexico '~3 (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Playa Vicente, San Andres Tuxtla, Cordova 
(Sallé), Misantla (foge), Vera Cruz (Sallé, H. H. Smith), Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. 
Smith), Teapa in Tabasco (Sallé, Hoge, H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, R. Hondo 
(Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Panzos in Vera Paz (Champion); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan 
de Chiriqui, David (Champion). 
This also is a common Central-American insect. It is perhaps only a variety of 
C. tuberculata, from which it differs in its rather smaller size, and in having the 
elytral margins subhyaline posteriorly (not stained with rufo-testaceous in their apical 
two-fifths, as in C. tuberculata). C. ventricosa has been collected in numbers at 
Teapa and Misantla, and it is quite constant in those localities; but some of the 
Chiriqui specimens are intermediate. 
54. Coptocycla egregia. (Tab. XI. figg. 20,2; 21,9, var.) 
Coptocycla egregia, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 400’, and iv. p. 4627; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 190°. 
Hab. Mexico !~, Juquila in Oaxaca (Sallé), Oaxaca (Hoge). 
Var. a. The dark markings on the elytral margin not extending to the shoulder. 
Hab. Panama, David (Champion). One specimen. 
Var. 8. The dark markings on the elytral margin almost obliterated, a faint curved line limiting the 
triangular antemedian hyaline patch anteriorly alone visible, the margins thence to the apex subhyaline. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). Two specimens. 
