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variegated with the same colour, each of the punctures being also marked with a fuscous 
or castaneous dot. C. vilis differs from C. gudaica, however, in having the third joint of 
the antenne shorter than the fourth, the punctures of the elytra coarse and deep, and 
the elytra themselves more convex towards the base; the females are narrower, longer, 
and more ovate than the males. We figure a female specimen from Jalapa. 
69. Coptocycla proxima. (Tab. XII. fig. 4.) 
Coptocycla proxima, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 200 *, and iv. p. 421 2; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°, 
Hab. Muxico!-%, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), Chilpancingo and 
Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith); Guatemaua, Aceituno, Capetillo (Champion). 
Of this species we have received numerous examples, varying in the width of the 
black vitta of the elytra—which extends along the outer part of the disc nearly to the 
apex and then runs rather obliquely inwards to the suture. The disc of the prothorax 
is testaceous, sometimes narrowly and obliquely bordered on either side with fuscous 
(this border in conjunction with that on the outer part of the disc of the elytra forming 
a common hexagonal ring); but in the two specimens from Chihuahua it is fuscous or 
piceous, the base excepted. The antenne are testaceous; the third joint is a little 
longer than the second, and shorter than the fourth. On either side of the disc of the 
prothorax are some coarse scattered punctures, not mentioned by Boheman, whose type 
I have examined. 
70. Coptocycla evanescens. (Tab. XII. figg. 5; 5a, antenna.) 
Subrotundate, convex, flavo-testaceous, shining, the margins subhyaline ; the eyes black; the prothorax with 
a transverse black patch at the base, rounded anteriorly and occupying about half the disc; the scutellum 
black or piceous, usually flavous at the tip, in some specimens ferruginous; the elytra with a dilute 
rather broad blackish or piceous stripe on the outer part of the disc (in one specimen black and sharply 
defined, in others faint and evanescent), extending inwards to the suture at some distance before the apex, 
and forming (with the mark on the prothorax) an oblong annulus, the space enclosed dilute sanguineous 
or flavous; the antenne: testaceous, with the apical joint infuscate or black; beneath and the legs tes- 
taceous. Antenne rather short, extending to very little beyond the base of the prothorax, slender, the 
apical five joints a little thickened, joint 3 short, not longer than 2. Prothorax twice as broad as long, 
broadly expanded and reticulate at the sides and in front, the disc shallowly grooved at the base on either 
side of the median lobe, the surface smooth. Elytra nearly three times as long asthe prothorax, and much 
wider than it at the base, moderately deeply sinuate-emarginate in front, conjointly rounded at the apex, 
with prominent but obtuse humeri; the disc convex, hollowed behind the humeral callus, with rows of 
rather closely placed, moderately coarse punctures, which become very much finer, shallower, and more 
remote towards the suture and obsolete before the apex, the interstices quite flat, smooth; the margins 
broadly expanded and reticulate, becoming narrow at the apex, smooth, separated from the disc by a 
row of deep fovere. Claws angularly dilated at the base. 
Length 42-54, breadth 43-42 millim. 
Hab. Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, 
David (Champion).—Perv, Chanchamayo (coll. Janson). 
