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143 



Type coslaia Burmeister. 



Mexico. 

 Guatemala. 

 Venezuela. 

 Honduias. 



Mexico, Colombia, Guate- 

 mala, Costa Rica, Hondu- 

 ras, Yucatan, Panama. 



Geographical distribution : Primarily a Central American genus but represented also in 

 northern South America, in Mexico and in southern United States. Some of the species show a wide 

 variation in color markings which has resulted in many synonyms. 



1. abbreviata Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i36 (i858). 



2. agtta Fowler, B. C. .\. II : 126. 7 (iSgS). 



3. brevivitia Walker, List Hom. B. M. S^S. i3 (i85i). 



4. buctoni (nom. nov.) Funkhouser, Cat. Memb. 324 (1927). 



strigata (preoccupied) Buckton, Mon. Memb. 180 (igoS). 



5. costata Burmeister, Handb. Ent. H : 142. 16 (i835). — Pl. 7, 



fig. 102. 



pilosa Kairmaire, Rev. Memb. 296. i (1846). 

 nigriventris Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 297. 6 (1846). 

 viridimaciila Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 298. 7 (1846). 

 intirrupta Walker, List Hom. B. M S^S. 14 (i85i). 

 slraminea Walker, List Hom B. M. 544. 12 (i85i). 

 slrigata Walker, List Hom. B. M. Suppl. i36 (i858). 

 hogotensis Dohrn, Cat. Hem. 79 (1S59). 

 reflexa Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 207. i (1877). 

 godmani Distant, Ent. Month. Mag. XVI : 11 (1880). 

 nigrodorsis Fowler, B. C. A. II : I23 {1896). 



6. dtspar Fowler, B. C. A. H : 126. 6 (1896). 



7. dorsalis Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 178. 2 (i836). 



maculata Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 178. 3 (i836). 

 paUipes Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 179. 4 (i836). 

 sicula Amyot and Serville, 541 (1843). 

 flavomaculata Amyot and Serville, Pl. 9, fig. 9 (1843). 

 nigella Fairmaire, Rev. Memb. 298. 10 (1846). 

 fusca Butler, Cist Ent. II : 208. 6 (1877). 

 hordacea Butler, Cist Ent. II : 209. 7 (1877). 

 tricolor Butler, Cist. Ent. II : 209. 8 (1877). 



8. lineata Burmeister, Rev. Silb. IV : 179 5 (i836). 



tredecemcostata Fairmaire, Rev. Meml>. 299. 11 (1846). 

 abbreviata Walker, List Hom. B M. Suppl. i36 (i858). 

 major F"owler, B. C. A. II : 126 (1895). 



Panama. 



Mexico, Honduras, Guate- 

 mala, Costa Rica, Brazil, 

 Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, 

 Texas, Georgia. 



Mexico, Honduras, Guate- 

 mala, Canal Zone, Yucatan. 



117. genus BRYANTOPSIS BALL 



Bryantopsis Ball, Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. XXVII : 11. 482 (1937). 



Characters : We have not had an opportunity to see a representative of this genus, recently 

 erected by Ball, and are therefore unable to write a generic description based on the examination of an 

 actual specimen nor to figure the type. From the original description of the genus and the description 

 of the type species, it would appear that this genus stands between Polyglypta and Publilia, differing from 

 the former in the sharplj' tectiform pronotum and from the latter in the presence of the anterior pronotal 

 horn. BalFs original description, which follows, should be sufficient to characterize the genus. 



« A typical Polyglyptini resembhng Publilia Stal, except that there is a definite anterior horn 

 especially marked in the female, superficially resembhng Metheisa Fowl., especially in the shape 

 and length of the horn in the male, but differing radically in venation which has warranted Goding 

 in placing this latter genus in the Smilini. 



» As seen from the side with an anterior horn extending obhquely upwards as in Phyla for 



