220 - PHYTOPHAGA. 
_ 76. Coptocycla marculenta. (Tab. XII. fig. 12, 2 .) 
Coptocycla marculenta, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 336’, and iv. p. 450°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 184°. 
Hab. Mexico }-°, San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé). 
We have received two specimens of this obscure species. C. marculenta is 
exceedingly like a pallid C. annexa, Boh., with which. species it was mixed in the 
Sallé collection ; but is broader, and also differs from it in having the elytral margins 
entirely subhyaline posteriorly (the faint fuscous line on the outer part of the disc not 
extending across the margin to the exterior limb at one-third from the apex, as in that 
species). The flavo-testaceous colour extends across the elytral margins nearly to the 
humeri, a character distinctly visible in the type, but not mentioned by Boheman. 
The third joint of the antenne is a little longer than the second, and shorter than 
the fourth. The male is shorter and more rotundate than the female. The type from | 
the Stockholm Museum is figured. 
77. Coptocycla profligata. (Tab. XII. fig. 13.) 
Coptocycla profligata, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iv. p. 446°. 
Coptocycla bifoveolata, Sturm, in litt. 
Hab. Mexico! (Sallé, ex coll. Sturm), Guanajuato, Etla, Orizaba, Cordova, Yolos, | 
Juquila (Sallé), Chilpancingo, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith), Misantla, Jalapa (Hége) ; 
British Honpuras, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneauxr); Guatemata (Sallé), Cerro Zunil, 
Capetillo, Duefias, San Gerénimo (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de 
Irazu (Rogers). 
An abundant Central-American insect. C. profligata, the type of which is before 
me, is compared by Boheman with C. immunda (a pale variety of C. signifera, Herbst, 
=guttata, Boh.); but it is,in reality, avery close ally of C. bicolor—some of the 
specimens of the species in the Sallé collection were indeed so labelled,—from which 
it differs in having a dark transverse fascia on the elytral margins at the base. The 
third joint of the antenne is slightly longer than the second. 
78. Coptocycla erratica. (Tab. XII. fig. 14, ¢ .) 
Coptocycla erratica, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 201’, and iv. p. 421°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. Mus. 
ix. p. 169°. 
Coptocycla varicornis, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 348 *, and iv. p. 452°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 185°. 
Coptocycla meticulosa, Boh. Monogr. Cassid. iii. p. 351", and iv. p. 452°; Cat. Col. Ins. Brit. 
Mus. ix. p. 185°. | 
Coptocycla rufosignata, Sturm, in litt. 
