216 COCCINBLLIDJE. 



This species is the Chnoodes roseipes (Muls.) of Salle's collection. Crotch's type is a 

 specimen from Deyrolle's collection without locality, that assigned to it being only a 

 surmise. Chnoodes sanguinipes is about the size of Exoplectra cruentipes. It is 

 scarcely so convex as that insect. The head and first segment of the abdomen are 

 dark in some individuals, probably the females. There were five examples of it in 

 Salle's collection, and if not common it seems to have been met with on several 

 occasions, especially in Mexico, whence Crotch's example probably came. 



3. Chnoodes cinctipennis. 



Sanguineo-rufus, nitidus, parce brevissime pubescens, creberrime distincte leviter punctatus, elytrorum disco 

 nigro-seneo. Long. 2|-3 millim. 



Hal. Guatemala, Chiacam, San Juan, and Tamahu in Vera Paz {Champion) ; Panama, 

 Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Of the size of C. terminalis, and with the pubescence, as in that species, very fine 

 and often quite denuded on the disc of the elytra. The whole of the body is red, the 

 breast and middle of the abdomen being only indistinctly pitchy. The elytra are 

 black, very shining, with a bronze or greenish reflection, the margin (excepting at the 

 base near the suture) being widely red, more broadly so at their apex. The scutellum 

 is red, at least in the middle, in bright and fresh examples wholly so. 



About twenty examples of this Chnoodes were obtained by Mr. Champion. 



4. Chnoodes bipunctatus. 



Rufus, dense brevissime pubescens ; capite (labro rufo), prothorace (angulis anticis praetermissis) elytrisque 

 nigris, his puncto singulo in utroque. juxta suturam mediano rufo, vix punctatis. Long. 2>\ millim. 



Had. Mexico, Iguala in Guerrero (Hoge). 



Above black, scarcely visibly punctured, but not very shining, being densely clothed 

 with a very short and fine grey pubescence. The head is quite even, with rather large 

 eyes ; the mouth and appendages are red. The thorax has the front angles very much 

 deflexed and red; and the body beneath and legs are also red, the breast only being a 

 little obscure in tint. The elytra are black, but have each a rather ill-defined and 

 obscure, oblong, small red spot about the middle and near the suture. I have only 

 seen the single example described above. It is somewhat doubtfully of this genus. 



5. Chnoodes decipiens. 



Orbicularis, niger, nitidus, densius pube brevi micante, in dorso denudato, vestitus ; crebre ac distincte sed 

 minute punctatus ; capite, abdomine pedibusque sanguineis, protboracis margine antico et laterali tenuiter 

 flavis. Long, 2 millim. 



Mas, capite rufo, protboracis margine antico flavo. 



Femina, capite prothoracisque margine nigris. 



Hal). Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



This insect has given me a good deal of perplexity, owing to its rather close general 



