18/8.] MR A. BOUCARD ON THE GKNUS PLUSIOTIS. 



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1. Notes ou some Coleoptera of the Genus Plusiotis, with 

 descriptions of three new Species from Mexico and 

 Central America. By A. Boucard, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received February 4, 1878.] 



(Plate XVI.) 



I have again the pleasure to exhibit to the Fellows of this Society 

 a fine series of Beetles of the genus Plusiotis, which I have ^acquired 

 since I wrote my former paper on these Insects in the 'Proceedings' ' 



ThrpTnfl ^ are [° Ur v^ T deS t0ta11 ^ distinct fro '" ^11 others! 

 Sail' if I * ^ h f Bn hberalIy S iven t0 me h y »V f »e"ds MM. 

 bale, Baden, and Rodriguez. The fourth I discovered during my 



know7o7,h n ^ RlCR - ThiS inCreaSCS the number of -pedis 

 known of these fine insects to twenty, of twelve of which the types 

 are m my collection. y ^ 



to nri llg "^ "^ ^^ ™ C ° Sta RiCa > J haVe ^ *>*** able 



to procure one more specimen of Plusiotis batesii, which agrees com- 

 slle'U h U f tJPe ,' a " d ° Qe , S P eci - en of Plusiotis chrfjsa^Ta, 



2&K5& the onglnal types of the species > not ^ U 

 to *Z^7£^S£* appear to — - *-•*» 



wWwVi 1 Costa Riea *? the , P ro Per season, and at the exact locality 

 where these insects are found; but I was not able to get more than 

 three specimens although I offered a high price for them to he 

 natives, and did myself all that possibly* could be done I made 

 several excursions on purpose, but with no result. 



iwery one in the country knew what I meant when I asked for 

 golden and silvery beetles; but they did not procure me any 



Plusiotis batesii. 



Plusiotis batesii, Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 119, pi. xxiii 



Hab. Volcano of Irazu, Costa Rica. 



One specimen of this fine species, found in May near Potrero 



Gerrado atthe altitude of 8000 feet, was alive, but had ost its abdo 

 men aud e of t , ft ^ ^ ^ ' ^ its abdo- 



Th'e 3£ *'J t ££"?** itsel <> paving lost fts almen 

 ine vitality o this insect is so great, that several hours after I had 

 found my specimen it could still move part of its body and iteremain 



s S'abkS 8 ! l looked with the greatcst cdre "° r ii ^ cT 



was not able to find any more specimens 



to hV J™ W est r f 11 ^ frie nd Salle, who thought that they ou-ht 

 for th? 2 abuadaDtly ° n Mim °s* trees, like PeUdnota, I searched 

 or them during many days on these plants, but without success 

 and those which I secured were found in the oak-tree region I saw 

 another specimen, which I consider to be a very fine variety of Z 

 ' SeeP.Z.S. 1875, p. 117. 



