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12. Stictopelta indeterminata. (Tab. V. figg. 5, 5a, 6.) 
Darnis indeterminata, Walk. List of Homopt. Ins., Suppl. p. 148°. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), Jalisco 
(Schumann), Amula and Tepetlapa in Guerrero, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in ‘Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemaua, Teleman in Vera 
Paz (Champion); Panama, Bugaba and Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion).—Amazons, 
Santarem }. 
Our collection contains a larger series of the insect which I refer to this species 
than of any other in the group. In size and colour these specimens are very variable, 
and might well be described as several separate species, but they run one into another. 
Some are of a decided greenish colour, and others clear testaceous, while the colouring 
of the legs and the general form differ considerably in specimens from the same locality : 
thus, for instance, there are four specimens from Atoyac, Vera Cruz, from which two 
and perhaps three species might be formed on differences that appear to have been 
considered specific in the group; the whole of the specimens, however, appear to agree 
in having the angles at the sides of the prothorax just behind the shoulders very obtuse, 
a character which separates them from the two preceding species. 
An example from Jalisco is figured. 
13. Stictopelta fraterna. 
Stictopelta fraterna, Butl. Cist. Ent. 11. p. 340°. 
Hab. Mexico (Bilimek, in Mus. Vind. Ces.), Oaxaca (Sallé !).—Pxrrv }. 
I believe this to be only a small form of the preceding, and cannot satisfactorily 
identify any of the specimens in our collection with it, although several are extremely 
near it; they are, however, connected with the larger specimens of S. indeterminata by 
intermediate forms. ‘There is one example in the Vienna Museum collection which 
appears to belong to it; the chief difference lies in the shoulders being less prominent. 
The other characters, especially those of the colour of the legs and apex of prothorax, 
are quite untrustworthy, as may be seen by examining the series of 8. indeterminata in 
our collection. | 
There are four large and rather strongly punctured specimens (12 millim. in length) 
in the Vienna collection, which are either 8. indeterminata or very closely allied to it, 
and a very small specimen (7 millim. in length) in our series (from Puebla, Mexico), 
closely allied to S. fraterna, which may both belong to new species; in the face, how- 
ever, of the acknowledged difficulty of this testaceous group of Stictopelta, which is 
expressed by the names given to the species by different authors, I prefer not to 
multiply species in the present state of our knowledge. 
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