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ii'ulesront ; tlic recurrent iiervures joiniiij; tlie transverso- 

 ciibitals ; second s.iii. higher than l)roa(l (loiip:). Femora 

 black witli the extreme a|)cx ferrufjinous ; anterior tibioe 

 orange with a small dark ])ar on outer side; middle and 

 hind tibi;e rather broadly lij;ht yellow at base and narrowly 

 feriujjinous at apex ; tarsi li|;l»t ferrujiii\ous. Abdomen 

 black, not hairy, with a sericeous impunctatc surface ; apex 

 of venter light ferruginous. 



Hab. Gualan, Guatemala {JV. P. Cochcrdl, 9). 

 In my table in ' Entomologist,' 1898, this runs straight to 

 P. niodesta. In Lovell's tal)le in ' Psyche/ 1910, it runs to 

 P. zizi(p. In ^[ctz's (1911) table it runs out at 10, becanse 

 the lateral face-marks extend far above antennal sockets and 

 are very narrow, and scape is all yellow in front. The face- 

 marks are not like any of Metz's figures. In Sclirottky's 

 Brazilian table it runs to P. amazonica, Grib., but diflers by 

 the entirely black dorsal surface of abdomen, &c. The 

 species is best distinguislied by the little square apical 

 enclosure on tlie metathorax. 



Mesoplia azwea gnatemalensis, subsp. n. 



$ . — Tegument of head and thorax black, without any 

 bluish tint ; first three autennal joints bright chestnut-red, 

 rest of flagellum black, dark reddish beneath ; labrum 

 rugulose, nude, liairy only at lateral margins, the hair 

 creamy white; sides of face covered with silver-white hair, 

 not at all yellow- ; eyes dark pur})lish ; posterior orbital 

 margins with a band of silver-white hair; tubercles and 

 tcgulee bright ferruginous ; mesothorax little hairy, witli 

 close fine punctures anteriorly, the posterior disc with 

 excessively minute punctures and scattered larger ones ; 

 anterior maririn of mesothorax with hair which is pale in the 

 middle, seal-brown at sides ; scutcllum strongly bigibbous. 

 Abdomen very brilliant blue, witliout hair-spots. Legs red, 

 middle tibial spur with two long branches, of which the 

 shorter and thicker is obscurely trifid at end and has two 

 little spines on inner side. 



Hah. Gualan, Guatemala, Feb. 23, 1912 {IV. P. Cocker ell, 

 40). 



This seems to l)e a distinguishable race of M. azurea, Lep., 

 described from the Island of Guadaloupe. It ditfers from 

 Mesoplia pilicrus (Melissa pilicrus, Frii'se) by the bigiblious 

 scutcllum, unicolorous dorsal surface of abdomen, &e. ; from 

 Mesoplia imperialis (Melissa imperialis, Ashm.) by the pre- 

 vailingly white hair of head and thorax, red legs, &c. ; from 

 Mesoplia insignis [Melissa insiynis, Sm.) by the white hair 

 covering sides of face, the absence of black hair on labrum, 



