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and Teleman in Vera Paz, Zapote (Champion) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). — South 

 America, Colombia \ Venezuela 2 . 



This remarkable species has evidently a very extensive range ; Keiche's specimens, 

 from which Mulsant described the species, are now in the Cambridge collection, and 

 one of these is labelled " Cuma . .," the remainder of the word having apparently been 

 cut off — Cumana being no doubt the locality, many of Reiche's insects having come 

 from there. 



The example figured is from Bugaba. 



Subfam. EXOPLECTRIDES. 



The Exoplectrides combine many of the characters of the foregoing subfamilies ; and 

 much uncertainty attends the various attempts which have been made to bring the 

 genera composing this section into anything like a systematic arrangement. 



Crotch placed under this subfamily three " groups," the Ortalise, Azyse, and Exo- 

 plectrae proper ; but Chapuis, on the other hand, places Azya and Exoplectra, with 

 Cryptogonus and Bucolus, under his Bucolites, making another subfamily, Chnoodites, 

 to include Chnoodes (which is, in fact, scarcely distinct from Exoplectra), and Ortaliites, 

 for Ortalia and five allied genera. Without expressing any view on the genera 

 from the East Indian and Australian regions, such as Bucolus and Cryptogonus, we 

 here unite the genera occurring in Central America belonging to these different divisions 

 under the Exoplectrides. Chapuis says of the ' Chnoodites ' and of the ' Bucolites,' that 

 they are but in fact pubescent Hyperaspides. I consider the Exoplectrides, as we here 

 adopt the term, quite as nearly allied to the Chilocorides, of which, indeed, Exoplectra 

 has very much the form, and the elytra are very similarly constructed with deeply 

 inclined epipleura?. 



AZYA. 



Azya, Mulsant, Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 928 (1850) ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 279 ; Chapuis, 

 Gen. Col. xii. p. 240. 



Five species of Azya have been described, all from Central or South America, with 

 the exception that one is from Guadeloupe. They are blue or blackish-blue insects, 

 clothed with a fine pubescence, which is often denuded on a patch on the elytra. 



1. Azya luteipes. (Tab. XI. fig. 24.) 



Azya luteipes, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 928 * ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 279 2 . 

 Azya scutata, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 929 3 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 279 \ 

 Azya orbigera, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 930 5 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 279 6 . 



Hab. Mexico 1_6 , Puebla, Toxpam, Orizaba, Tuxtla (Salle), Acapulco, Jalapa, Cor- 

 dova, Cuernavaca, Tapachula in Chiapas (Edge), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Chilpancingo in 



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