Longicornia of Mexico and Central America. 269 



Elongate, narrow. Prothorax with the sides parallel. Elytra 

 flattened above and slightly dei^ressed towards the middle. The 

 entire body clothed with a mixed pubescence of grey and pale 

 fiilvous, the latter being condensed in places to form numerous 

 small patches. Autennte a little longer than the body in the male, 

 with the hrst, second, and last joints blackish brown, with the 

 under sides and bases of the joints from the third to the seventh, 

 and the whole of joints eighth to tenth, pale cinereous ; the upper 

 side of the joints third to seventh, especially towards their apices, 

 fuscous testaceous ; the last joint is slightly thicker and scarcely 

 longer than the preceding joint. 



Cirrhicera conspicua, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 13, $ .). 



Nigra, fasciis flavo-ochraceis ornata ; auteunis nigris, articulis 

 5o, Goque subtus dense, articulis lo ad 4um minus dense ciliatis. 

 Long. 15 — 16 mm. 



Hah. Mexico, E. Papagaio in Guerrero, 1200 ft. 

 {H. H. Smith). 



Head (excepting a narrow median portion of vertex), sides of 

 prothorax, a broad triangular plaga at the base of the elytra, a spot 

 under each shoulder, and a broad transverse fascia behind the 

 middle, clothed with a thick bright ochreous yellow pubescence. 

 Sides of the meso- and meta-sterna, and of the first two abdominal 

 segments, similarly clothed in the male. Legs in the male testa- 

 ceous yellow. 



The female differs from the male by its slightly shorter 

 antennae, its rounded (instead of slightly sinuate) apical 

 margin to the abdomen, and by having the first three 

 abdominal segments clothed with yellow pubescence ; 

 while the last two have each a spot of the same colour 

 on each side; the femora also in the single female before 

 me are almost black, and the first three joints of the tarsi 

 dark brown. 



Cirrhicera hasalis, sp. n. (PL XII., fig. 5, ^ ). 

 Fusco-testacea, griseo subtilitcr pubescens, niveo ornata ; pro- 

 thorace utrinque vitta lata nivea ; elytris naacula parva nivea 

 utrinque ad basin extremam, et maculis duabus sutura conjunctis 

 paullo pone medium; lateribus meso-, metathoracisque et maculis 

 duabus abdominis utrinque niveis. Long. 7 — 10^ mm. 



Hah. Mexico, Venta de Peregrino and R. Papagaio, 

 both in Guerrero (//. H. Smith) ; Acapulco {Smith and 

 Hbge). 



