132 LAMELLICOENIA. 



E. f estiva and in other species, but seem to be implanted obliquely, so that viewed 

 sideways the surface of the body appears to be minutely and closely granulated. The 

 whole surface is free from erect hairs, except a few on the head and sides of the 

 thorax. The transverse row of oblong dark spots on the elytra and the accompanying 

 ashy- white specks are often ill-defined, but in other examples the white spots are large 

 and conspicuous and the black spots scarcely apparent. The silvery dorsal line of the 

 thorax and similarly coloured sides are often obsolete ; on the other hand, there is 

 sometimes a pale supplementary vitta on each side of the dorsal one. 

 Found in numbers by Herr Hoge. 



4. Hoplia disparilis. (Tab. Vlll. fig. 5, $ .) 



Parva, oblongo-ovata, clypeo breviter trapezoidali, antice truncato et acute reflexo ; capite nigro, clypeo interdum 

 ruf o ; thorace medio perparum dilatato, angulis posticis subrectis, reflexis ; tibiis anticis valide tridentatis, 

 posticis rectis ; corpore subtus squamis rotundis adpressis argenteis densissime vestito, pygidio fulvo ; 

 antennis nigro clavatis ; pedibus pallidis. 



cJ . Caput et thorax longe et dense hirsuta, integumento nitido ; elytra dense breviter incumbenti-birsuta, 

 fulvo-cinerea, macula oblonga poster iore prope suturam vittisque indistinctis fuscis. 



5 . Caput birsutum ; thorax squamis angustis densissime vestitus, antice solum hirsutus ; elytra squamulis 

 parvis adpressis dense vestita; fulvo-ochracea, thoracis vittis duabus runs elytrisque vittis indistinctis 

 pallidis. 



Long. 4 1 millim. 



Ea b. Guatemala, Chiacam (Champion). 



Like some of the much larger North- American Hoplioe the male of this species is 

 clothed with hairs, and the female with flat scales. The male has long fine hairs on 

 the thorax, which is otherwise glabrous, except for a small patch of pale flattened 

 hairs on each side ; and closely-set, short, incumbent hairs or scaly hairs on the elytra. 

 In the female the thorax is thickly clothed with narrow scales, the elytra with more 

 smoothly-laid and flattened scales. The pure silvery-white, large, round, flattened scales 

 of the under surface distinguish E. disparilis in both sexes. 



5. Hoplia cretacea. (Tab. VIII. fig. 6.) 



Oblonga, rufescens, squamis parvis adpressis rotundis dense vestita, thorace et elytris (bis seriatim) griseo- 

 setosis, subtus cretaceo-albo leviter metallica; clypeo obtuso rotundato, margine subtiliter reflexo : thorace 

 medio subangulatim dilatato, lateribus posticis baud sinuatis, angulis posterioribus obtusis ; pedibus cinereo- 

 pilosis ; tibiis anticis tridentatis, posticis fere rectis ; antennis 10-articulatis. 



Thorax cinereus vittis quatuor fusco-rufis, fere indistinctis vel obliterans ; elytra cinerea, macula utrinque 

 post medium magna transversa angulata fusca fasciaque lobata anteriore rufo-fusca, ssepe indistinctis 

 interdum obliteratis, elytrisque toto griseis. 



Long. 5| millim. 



Eab. Mexico, Jalapa (Salle, Edge), Oaxaca (Salle). 



Distinguished from allied species by the obtusely rounded and slightly upturned 

 margin of the clypeus; the closely-packed, small, round Ec.iles of the upper surface; 



