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the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, slightly raised, becoming costate 
towards the apex. 
Length 13 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 
One specimen. The uniform brassy-black colour, short antenne, and peculiar elytral 
sculpture distinguish this species at a glance. The punctures on the elytra form four 
double series separated by raised reticulations. 
UROPLATA (pp. 92, 123). 
Uroplata sanguinipennis (p. 123). 
Var. The elytra a little shorter, black, with an oblique spot on the shoulders fulvous ; the head and prothorax 
with a brassy lustre. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (H. H. Smith). 
Two specimens, differing as above from the Panama type. JU. sanguinipennis differs 
from all the allied forms in having the first to the sixth elytral interspaces narrowly 
costate. 
4 (a). Uroplata sulcifrons. (Tab. XIII. fig. 26.) 
Moderately elongate, subparallel, slightly shining, black, the head and prothorax with a slight brassy lustre ; 
the prothorax with a fulvous vitta on either side; the elytra each with a large fulvous patch extending 
from the base to beyond the middle and obliquely truncate behind, the suture piceous or black through- 
out; the antenne and legs black. Head slightly shining, with some scattered rather coarse punctures 
behind, the front moderately produced; the interocular space with five deep longitudinal grooves. 
Antenne nearly half the length of the body, stout, thickening outwardly ; the joints cylindrical, 3 much 
longer than 2, 4 as long as broad, 5-7 transverse, 8-11 consolidated into a single piece. Prothorax 
transverse, moderately convex, transversely depressed behind, narrowing from the base, with obtuse 
anterior angles ; the surface with very coarse deep scattered punctures, the space on either side occupied 
by the fulvous vitta impunctate. Elytra subparallel, a little wider behind than in front, moderately long ; 
the sides serrulate to the rounded posterior angle, the apices rather coarsely, unequally serrate, and con- 
jointly rounded; each elytron with eight regular rows of deep punctures throughout ; the second inter- 
space broadly and strongly, the fourth moderately, and the sixth finely, costate ; the suture also raised. 
Legs moderately long. 
Length 23 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gawmer). 
Three examples. Allied to U. vittatipennis, Baly, from Honduras, Nicaragua, &c., 
but less elongate, and with the fourth elytral interspace not so strongly costate, the 
fulvous patch obliquely truncate behind. In U. vittatipennis the third and fourth rows 
of punctures are fused into one in the median third of the elytra (not mentioned in the 
description); in U. sulcifrons they are separate throughout. 
Uroplata coxalgica (p. 123). 
To the Mexican locality given, add :—Teapa in Tabasco (1. H. Smith). 
One specimen, agreeing perfectly with the type. 
