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Walker erroneously assigned the insect described by Butler as A. hadina to A. in- 
cumbens, which is a very peculiar and distinct species, with the rostrum very strongly 
and abruptly deflexed; it has been separated by Stal to form his genus Argante. 
12. Aconophora variipennis, sp. n. (Tab. V. figg. 13, 13 a.) 
Brevior, pronoto piceo, sat lato, subtilius punctato, aureo-pubescenti, cornu brevi erecto, humeris prominulis, 
apice longo curvato ; tegminibus variegatis flavo-testaceis, margine costali et maculis quibusdam brunneis 
vel piceis, tertié’ parte interiori hvalin&; corpore subtus ferrugineo; pedibus fere totis flavo-testaceis, 
femoribus partim fuscis. 
Rather short and broad, moderately shining, finely but not very closely punctured, with golden pubescence, 
. which is thick on the metopidium ; pronotal horn very short and not broad, considerably erect, front of 
horn, metopidium, and head forming a straight line at an angle of about 60°; tegmina yellowish- 
testaceous, with the costal margin broadly pitchy, and with other dark markings, the centre of the disc 
being of an opaque testaceous colour ; the interior third part is testaceous hyaline; legs almost entirely 
light yellow-testaceous, with all the femora more or less infuscate. 
Long. cum tegm. 84 millim.; ab humeris ad apicem cornus 3 millim. ; lat. int. hum. 3 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 
- One female specimen. This species is allied to A. nitida, but is very distinct in 
colour, shape, and punctuation. From A. hadina it may be known by the shape of the 
pronotal horn, punctuation, &c. 
13. Aconophora subinermis. 
Aconophora subinermis, Stal, Kongl. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Haadl. Band. iil. 6, p. 28+, viii. 1, p. 35”. 
Hab. Muxico (coll. Signoret, in Mus. Vind. Cas.).—Brazit, Rio Janeiro }. 
One female specimen from Mexico in the Vienna Museum. ‘This is a very distinct 
species, being about as broad between the shoulders as its length from the base of 
the horn to the apex of the pronotum; the horn is very short and somewhat porrect, 
and there is a very large and deep impression on either side at the margins, Just 
behind the shoulders it resembles a Potnia rather than an Aconophora. 
14. Aconophora nigra. 
Aconophora nigra, Stal, Kongl. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Band viii. 1, p. 35°. 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé, in Mus. Holm.). 
This is one of the smallest species of Aconophora. Mr. Butler, in his catalogue of 
the genus (Cist. Ent. ii. p. 349), gives A. nigra as synonymous with A. concolor, Walk. ; 
but the type of the latter species disagrees with Stal’s description, and is very different 
from a specimen sent me by Dr. Aurivillius, which he says agrees with Stal’s type of 
A, nigra, except that the horn is wanting. Stal’s ‘description of the species is very 
meagre :—‘‘ Corpore nigro, thorace in ferrugineum’ obsolete vergente ; ‘tibiis fusco- 
ferrugineis; tegminibus concoloribus, apicem versus fuscis; ceteris ut in A. hastata.” 
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