EXOPLECTBA.— CHNOODES. 215 



4. Exoplectra cruentipes. (Tab. XI. fig. 27.) 



Nigra, nitida ; ore, antennis, prothoracis angulo antico tenuiter, abdomine pedibusque sanguineo-rufis ; elytris 

 valde convexis, creberrime distincte panctatis, superne pube brevissima tenuiter vestita. Long. 5 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Very convex, nearly orbicular ; head black ; prothorax and elytra black, with a faint 

 brassy tint, the former very closely and finely punctured, the latter distinctly (and 

 compared with E. subcenescens) rather more sparsely punctured ; the front margin of 

 the prothorax rather more deeply emarginate than in E. subcenescens, and only the inner 

 side of the front angle with a very small red linear mark which runs inside the reflexed 

 margin of the angle itself. The underside is black, the abdomen clear red, with the ex- 

 ception of the first segment, which has the intercostal process and base narrowly black. 



Two specimens ; perhaps both are females, and the male may have the thorax with 

 the sides more broadlv red. 



CHNOODES. 



Chnoodes, Chevrolat, in D'Orbigny's Diet. Univ. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 612 (1843) ; Mulsant, Spec. 



Col. Trim. se"cur. p. 908. 

 Dapolia (Muls.), Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 287. 



Chnoodes is very nearly allied to Exoplectra. 



Crotch refers six species to this genus, one of which occurs in our district, the others 

 being South American. Eight other species he includes in Dapolia ; but the distinction 

 is not clear, and I treat them here as being congeneric. 



1. Chnoodes terminalis. 



Chnoodes terminalis, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 913 1 ; Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 287 a . 

 Chnoodes byssina, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, secur. p. 913 3 . 

 Exoplectra rubripes, Muls. Spec. Col. Trim, se'eur. p. 923 4 . 



Hab. Mexico 4 , Tapachula in Chiapas (Hbge) ; British Honduras, R. Sarstoon 

 (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, San Juan, and Chiacam in Vera Paz, San 

 Isidro, Zapote, Capetillo, Duefias, Guatemala city (Champion), Aceytuno (Salvin); 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Taboga Island (Champion). — South America, Colombia 1 2 3 . 



2. Chnoodes sanguinipes. 



Dapolia sanguinipes, Crotch, Rev. Coccin. p. 288 \ 



" Oval, coarsely and thickly punctured, metallic green ; sides of thorax broadly, legs and abdomen bright 

 scarlet red. L. 2 lin." 



Hab. Mexico, Matamoros Izucar, Puebla, Jalapa (Hoge), Yolotepec, Capulalpam 

 (Salle), Omilteme in Guerrero (H. H. Smith) ; Guatemala, Capetillo, Duenas 

 (Champion).-— X South America 1 . 



