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along the suture, and one or two series near the margin are fuscous ; they have the 

 tips black for about a quarter of their length, forming a common transverse spot at 

 the apex ; the general colour is orange-yellow. The punctuation of the head and 

 thorax is very fine, scarcely visible in the male ; that of the elytra is rather stronger, 

 but still very fine and close. The body beneath is yellow ; but in the female it is 

 often infuscate in the middle. The three specimens from Zapote, all females, are more 

 orbicular than the type, and they have the thorax wholly black (or nearly so), while 

 the apical spot is small ; but I do not believe that they represent more than a variation 

 of the same species. 



Numerous specimens, including both sexes, were met with on the Volcan de Chiriqui, 

 at elevations of from 2500 to 4000 feet. Amongst the few received from Bugaba, 

 one, a female, pretty closely resembles the Zapote specimens, and has the apical spot 

 almost obsolete. 



H. terminata must, I think, resemble Cleothera melanura, Muls. ; but I have not seen 

 a specimen of that species, and our insect does not well agree with the description 

 of it. 



34. Hyperaspis ? 



Hab. Mexico, Tacambaro in Michoacan (Hoge). 



A single specimen of a large black Hyperaspis with the thoracic margin widely red 

 and a blood-red spot on each elytron behind the middle. 



I cannot identify this with any species described, but the example is a female and 

 had better remain unnamed at present. 



HYPEEASPIDIUS. 



Hyper aspidius, Crotch, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 382 (1873). 



The species which forms the type of this genus is referred to the Linnaean Chrysomela 

 trimaculata ; it was separated from Hyperaspis by Crotch, on the ground that the 

 epipleurse of the elytra are not foveolate. Chapuis in the ' Genera des Coleopteres ' 

 does not notice the genus. Three species are referred to it by Crotch. 



l. Hyper aspidius trimaculatus. 



Chrysomela trimaculata, Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th edit. i. 2, p. 592 \ 



Hyperaspis trimaculata, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 668 2 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 227 3 . 



By per aspidius trimaculatus, Crotch, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 382*. 



Coccinella trilineata, Schall. Abhandl. Ges. Halle, i. p. 262 (1783) 5 . 



Hyperaspis vittigera, Lee. Proc. Acad. Phil. vi. p. 133 6 . 



Hab. Noeth Ameeica, Kansas 3 4 , Dacota 3 , Missouri 6 . — Mexico 2 3 , Guanajuato, 

 Parada (SalU), Chilpancingo in Guerrero (H. H. Smith ; var. $ ). 



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