58 CALLISCHYRUS. 



Calliscliyriis. 



g.n. {typ. insigiiis, Lap,). 



Allied to Ischyrus in the structure of the pal})i cand mentum, 

 l)ut with the eyes much less strongly granulated, hardly more so 

 than in Mycotretus. 



Calliscliyrns insignis. 



Erotylus insignis, Lcqh Hist. Nat. ii. 250 (1840). 



IscJiyrns , Lac. Erot. 108, 



Uandus, Eric. Arch./. Nat. xiii. 180 (1847). 



N. Granada, Ecuador, Caracas (Salle), Peru (Ericlison). 



Callischyrus cyanoptenis. 



Iscliyrus cyanopterus, Eric. Arch,/. Nat. xiii. 180 (1847). 

 Peru, Ecuador, N. Granada. 



Calliscliyriis veniistus. 



Ischyriis venustus, Lac. Erot. 109. 

 Colui)iV)ia, Yucatan (Lacordaire). 



Difiers by the apex of the elytra being fulvous, and the thorax 

 having only two spots. 



Callischyrus melanogaster. 



Ischyrns melanoyaster, Gucr. Leon. E, A. Lns. 310 (184G). 

 Coliunbia. 



Callischyrus melanopus. 



Morplioides melanopus, Guer. R. Z. 1841, 118. 



Lscltyrus , Lac. Erot. 109. 



N. Granada. 



Differs from C. insiynis by the dark greenish elytra and the 

 five spots on the thorax. 



Callischyrus Candezei, sp. n. 



C. ammno proximus, thorace fortius punctato, i)unctis 2 anticis 

 nigris ; scutello punctato ; elytris lunula humerali, fascia media, 

 alteraque subapicali ad suturam interruptis albidis ; epi})leuris 

 nigris. L. 4^ — 5 lin. 



Guatemala (Cha})uis). 



li]asily recognizable by the black epi}»lcune of the elytra. 



