jEGITHUS. 89 



marginibu8 nigris ; his flavis, macula magna discoidali nigro-fusca, tenuiter gemellato-punctato-striatis. 

 Long. 8 millim. 



Eab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers). 



A very distinct species, of which unfortunately only one damaged specimen has been 

 received. There is, however, no other known species with which it can be confounded. 



11. -ffigithus hogei. 



Ovatus, subopacus, dilute brunneus ; antennarum articulis sex ultimis nigris, elytris gemellato-punctato- 

 striatis. Long. 7| millim. 



Eab. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero (Edge). 



Rather evenly oblong-ovate, the elytra a little contracted at the base. Head and 

 thorax smooth ; the latter transverse, narrower in front, the sides a little rounded, the 

 base evenly bisinuate and not much angulated (less so than usual in Mgithus). Elytra 

 dull, but very even ; only the two inner pairs of striae are visible, and they are very 

 faint and almost obliterated, except in the middle. Prosternum not compressed nor 

 punctured. The colour is uniformly pale brown, or ochraceous inclining to brick-red, 

 with the sole exception of the six terminal joints of the antennae, which are black. 

 This insect is not very closely allied to any other described species, but must be placed 

 near JE. lebasi. I have only seen the four specimens captured by Herr Hoge. 



12. .ZEgithus lebasi. 



Mgithus Lebasii, Lac. Monogr. Erotyl. p. 285 \ 

 jEgithus cassideus, Lac. loc. cit. p. 295 2 . 



Eab. Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers); Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui, David, 

 Tole (Champion). — Colombia 2 , Cartagena 1 . 



13. .ZEgithus quadrinotatus. 



JEgithus quadrinotatus, Chevr. Col. Mex. Cent. i. fasc. 4, no. 89 (1834) '; Lac. Monogr. Erotyl. 



p. 283 2 ; Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. p. 146 3 . 

 JEgithus clathratus, Lac. loc. cit. p. 282 4 . 



Eab. Mexico 1 , Orizaba 23 , Toxpam, Juquila (Salle), Cordova (Edge), Teapa 3 , 

 Tabasco 4 , Yucatan 4 (Gaumer) ; British Honduras, Belize, R. Sarstoon (Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala, Purula, San Geronimo, Balheu, Cubilguitz, Chacoj, San Joaquin, San Juan 

 in Vera Paz, Panzos (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales 3 (Belt, Janson). 



14. JEgithus duplicatus. 



Ovatus, antice et postice acuminatus, sordide testaceus, nitidus; antennarum clava, verticis macula, prothoracis 

 basi, sutura tenuiter, scutello, geniculis tarsisque nigris, elytris gemellato-striatis. Long. 8-9 millim. 



Eab. Guatemala (Salle), Capetillo, Zapote, Las Mercedes, San Geronimo, Chacoj 

 (Champion) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 



biol. centr.-amer., Coleopt., Vol. V1L, November 1888. N* 



