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Oplomus violaceus, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 85. 8°. 
| Oplomus flavoguttatus, Voll. Tijdschr. voor Ent. vi. p. 128. 8. 
Oplomus chrysomelas, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 121. 18°. 
Oplomus basalis, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 122. 197. 
Oplomus tibialis, Stal, Hem. Fabr. i. p. 16. 2. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Mus. Berol.), Orizaba?.—Amazons, Ega®; Cotomsta? 45, 
Santa Marta*; Ecuvapor®®, Peru}, Norra Brazit. 
Of this protean species the var. salamandra, Burm., which is contained in the British 
and Berlin Museums as received from Mexico, and which was described by Burmeister 
as from Peru, is at present the only representative known in Central America, and is 
the form figured. 
4. Oplomus nigripennis. (Tab. IV. fig. 19.) (0. pulcher, Tab. III. figg. 13, 14.) 
Oplomus nigripennis, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 88. 3°. 
Oplomus pulcher, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 84. 6°; Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiii. p. 86. 23; En. Hem. 
i. p. 29. 6°. 
Hab. Muxico!?3 (coll. Sign.). 
Stal enumerates eight varieties of this species, all of which approximate closely to the 
three forms figured as above. 
5. Oplomus rutilus. (Tab. ITI. fig. 20.) 
Oplomus rutilus, Dall. List Hem. 1. p. 83. 4°; Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 30. 11. 
Oplomus biarcuatus, Walk. Cat. Het. i. p. 121. 17°. 
flab. Mexico (coll. Sign.), Vera Cruz?.—Cotompia!. 
Var. a, rutilus, Dall. 1, typical. 
Var. 6. 
Differs from the type by its larger size, different colour-pattern of the head, larger size of the pronotal and 
scutellar spots, and by the addition of a large basal transverse spot to the scutellum, and a large discal 
black spot on the corium. Femora spotted or annulated with testaceous. 
This is the form figured as above, and is in the collection of Dr. Signoret from 
Mexico. 
Var. c. O. biarcuatus, Walk. (Tab. IV. fig. 18.) 
Above testaceous. Anterior portion of pronotum with two discal curved black lines. Beneath the broad black 
marginal borders of the sternum and abdomen as in vars. a, 6, broken into transverse streaks. 
The var. a@ has not yet been received from Centra] America. 
6. Oplomus ventralis. (Tab. III. fig. 18.) 
Oplomus ventralis, Dall. List Hem. i. p. 86.9; Stal, En. Hem. i. p. 30. 12. 
Hab. Mexico (coll. Sign.). 
The locality of the type was unknown. 
