114 EBOTYLIIXE. 



3. Homceotelus mexicanus. (Tab. VI. figg. 23; 24, varA) 



Homceotelus mexicanus, Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. p. 561 \ 



" H. gemellato affinis, sed postice minus acuminatus, magis depressus, obsoletius punctato-striatus, interstitiis 

 obsolete punctulatis, tibiisque nigris sat distinctus. L. 4-4| lin." 



Hab. Mexico \ Toxpam (SalU) ; Guatemala, Sinanja in Vera Paz (Champion). 

 Var. ? capite, prothorace elytrisque basi et lateribus pone medium nigro-piceis. 

 Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



The elytra are of a sordid pale yellow, with the suture darker, and the reflexed 

 margin pale, the head and prothorax and body beneath being of a rufo-testaceous 

 colour ; the antennae are black with the two basal joints clear red ; and the femora are 

 red, with their tips and the tibiae and tarsi black. The specimens from Sinanja, two in 

 number, agree precisely with the others, except that the series of punctures are a little 

 more deeply impressed, and the interstices are more distinctly punctured. The example 

 from Chiriqui, which we figure (fig. 24), is very different in colour, and should perhaps 

 be considered a distinct species ; but it agrees very closely in form and punctuation with 

 others from Mexico. 



Lacordaire did not (according to Crotch) distinguish this species from H. gemellatus, 

 and it is therefore to this species rather than to II. gemellatus that his quotation — 

 " des provinces orientales du Mexique," refers. 



4. Homceotelus jansoni. (Tab. VI. fig. 25.) 



Homceotelus Jansoni, Crotch, Cist. Ent. i. p. 150 1 . 



" H. meceicano affinis, sed corpore abrupte ovato, antice posticeque magis acuminata, colore lsete aurantiaco 

 (scutello nigro), thorace longiore, antennis longioribus, interstitiisque elytrorum distinctius punctulatis 

 facile distinguendus. L. c. 4| lin." 



Hab. Nicaragua, Santo Domingo in Chontales (Janson x , Belt) ; Panama, Bugaba, 



Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Approaches very near to small specimens of H gemellatus, but is certainly more 

 convex and more acuminate before and behind, and the sculpture is rather coarser. 

 A specimen from Chontales is figured. 



