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Other localities: Mexico: Rio Antonio, Oaxaca, F. E. Knab; 

 Puente de Ixtla, Morelos, Wickham; Rio Balsas, Guerrero, Wickham; 

 two specimens taken at border in shipments of pineapple from Mexico. 

 Honduras: Minas de Oro, Coniayagua, 4,000 ft., J. B. Edwards. 

 British Honduras : Manatee District, Peck. Guatemala: Antigua, J. 

 E. Melhus. 



Remarks: This is one of the oblong-oval species and resembles 

 somewhat D. admirabilis Blatchley of North America, although larger 

 and more polished. The aedeagus is much like that of D. arizonae 

 Casey, but the beetle itself lacks the coarse punctation and the dark 

 pronotal spots. 



DisonycJia figurata Jacoby 



Figure 42 



Disonycha figurata Jacoby, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Coleoptera, vol. 6, pt. 1, 

 p. 314, 1884. 



From 6 to 8 mm. in length, oblong oval, faintly shining, finely 

 alutaceous, finely punctate; pale yellow; the antennae dark with paler 

 basal joints, femora darkly streaked, apex of tibiae and tarsi dark; 

 pro thorax usually with two dark spots anteriorly; elytra usually with 

 faint, washed-out, narrow sutural and submarginal vittae, joined at 

 apex, and a median vitta, sometimes these vittae are normally piceous; 

 sometimes the breast is dark in the middle. 



Head with widely separated eyes, polished over occiput, a fovea 

 near each eye with a circle of punctures about it, frontal tubercles 

 distinct, carina broad and rounded, pale yellow with the mouthparts 

 often and tubercles sometimes brown. Antennae dark, with paler 

 basal joints. Prothorax not twice as broad as long, with arcuate sides, 

 faintly depressed over scutellum and on sides, rather shiny and indis- 

 tinctly punctate, usually with two dark spots anteriorly, occasionally 

 with only very faint traces of these spots, sometimes traces of lateral 

 spotting. Scutellum washed-out, grayish. Elj^tra distinctly aluta- 

 ceous and finely punctate, pale with pale grayish, not very distinct 

 vittae, the sutural one joining with the submarginal one at the apex, 

 and a median vitta, sometimes these vittae fully colored and piceous. 

 Body beneath densely covered with a yellowish pubescence, usually 

 entirely pale but sometimes with a reddish brown area in the middle 

 of the breast, femora with a deep brown or piceous streak, the hind 

 ones more heavily darkened, tibiae dark at apex, tarsi dark. Length 

 6 to 8 mm., width 3.2 to 4.3 mm. 



Type: Not designated; cotypes in BM, also in MCZ (Bowditch col- 

 lection, 4), and in USNM (2), from Capetillo, Guatemala, Champion. 



