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Cosmopepla coeruleata. sp. iiov. 



Several entomologists have given ine this species with the name C. 

 (Jecoraia Tlahn, which is manifestly incorrect. These? two species, how- 

 ever, are almost alike with regard to the disposition of colors, and on 

 eoDsidering only lliihn's ligure, W. I., Tab. LXV, Fig 198, one may be 

 led to coiifnsioii. Here is the description of the author, loe. cit., ii, p. 

 117: 



Schwarz, Jilaiigriinlieh, gliinzciul, piinktirt; die Seitenriiuder mid (mu brcitoH pjliit- 

 tcs Qncrbaiul iibei- die Mitto dcs Kiickenschildes bloichgolb, die Spitzp dcs Schild- 

 cheiis gelbroth ; die Eiiuder des oberu Theils der Halbdecken sclimal, die des Uin- 

 terleibos hreit bleichgolb ; Liiiigo 3 Lin.; Breite If. 



Now, in the species that I describe, the color is not hi tie greenish^ l)ut 

 polished dark blue; the abdominal yellow edge is not so broad as in 

 Ilahn's species, and the respective proportions are different; C. 

 cwrulcata Montand. is broader (4 to 4^""") proportionally to the IcMigth 

 (.")« to (U"""). 



Hahn gives Mexico as the native country of his species, and indeed 

 1 have received and studied many examples from thatregicm (Durango; 

 T^'tats du Centre, Dugcs) whicli were surely ('. (Jeeornta Hahn. iJnt 

 spccinuMis of the C. cfcrvlmt(( Montand. have been received from Vene- 

 zuela (collection Fallon and my own); Costa Eica (Van Patten) (collec- 

 tion of National Museum, Washington, and my own); Costa Rica, 

 Alajuela (Sec. Orozco); San .lose (P. Biolley), in my collection. 



Notwithstanding this superficial resemblance this s[)ecies deviates 

 very much from the real C deeorata Hahn in the broader sha])e of tiie 

 body, the broader scutellnm at the extremity, with a, shorter frenum, the 

 more delicate and not so dense punctation, and by just these charac- 

 teristics C. c(vrnleat<( Montand. is closely allied with C. crueiaria Still, as 

 described by the author (Enunieratio Hemipt. 11, p. V.)): 



Civrulescente nUjra, nitida, remote puuctata, marginibus lateralibuH anticis, fascia 

 media rittaque percurrentibus thoracis * * * flavescentibus, Iwvinatis. 



C. cniciaria 8tAl differs only in the longitudinal ochraceous shining 

 line on the middle of the pronotum, which is very ai)parent and does 

 not exist in C. ca'rulcata Montand., in which the disk of the pronotum 

 is entirely punctured before and behind the transverse fascia; in the 

 blue color of (J. cm-uleata MouUiud. (not dark violaceous, as G. crueiaria 

 Stal), and by the relative length of the fifth joint of the antenna, 

 which is shorter than the second and third conjointly in C. caruleafa 

 Montand., whilst the fifth joint is a little longer than the second and 

 third together in C. crueiaria Stal. But Avhether this last character is 

 constant or not, can only be settled by an examination of a larger num- 

 ber of specimens. 



Still's species is mentioned by the author from P)Ogota, New Grenada 

 (Mus. Holm.), and I i>ossess in my collection two specimens from Cauca, 

 Colond)ia; so that these two allied species live in the same countries 

 and constitute the more southern forms of the genus. 



