250 LAMELLICOENIA. 



105. Anomala ? 



Hob. Guatemala (Salle). 



A single imperfect example. 



106. Anomala ? 



Bob. Guatemala, Purula (Champion). 



A single mutilated example, with the anterior tarsi broken off. 



EPECTINASPIS. 



Epectinaspis, Blanchard, Cat. Coll. Ent. i. p. 180 (1850); Lacordaire, Gen. Col. iii. p. 326 (1856). 

 Strigoderma (pars), Burmeister, Handb. der Ent. iv. 2, p. 515 (1844). 



This genus, founded by Blanchard on a single Mexican species, is sufficiently distin- 

 guished from Anomala by its oblong form, convex thorax, and long quadrate clypeus, 

 which, added to the deep and close striation of the elytra, give the species a distinct 

 facies. There are, as usual in the subfamily, no very definite structural characters to 

 distinguish the genus from Anomala, Strigoderma, or Phyllopertha. One of the 

 principal is the long and robust, cheliform claw-joint of the anterior tarsi of the 

 males. Of the characters derived from the parts of the mouth on which Blanchard 

 in part founded the genus, that furnished by the labrum is the only one of importance. 

 This he terms " obtectum," which is scarcely accurate, as the upper basal part is plainly 

 visible, though forming only a narrow transverse piece ; and it is distinguished from the 

 same part in Anomala in being without trace of a central depression or emargination. 



1. Epectinaspis mexicana. (Tab. XIV. fig. 3.) 



Anomala (Phyllopertha) mexicana, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 241 \ 

 Strigoderma mexicana, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 2, p. 515. 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Cordova, Orizaba (Salle), Jalapa, Juquila (Edge). 



Varies in size from 7 to 12 millim. The black variety mentioned by Burmeister 

 appears to be rare, at least there are very few of it among the very large number of 

 examples we have received. The lateral margin of the elytra, although slightly 

 expanded before the middle, is scarcely at all thickened, even in the female. 



A Cordova specimen is figured. 



2. Epectinaspis pictipennis. (Tab. xiv. fig. 4.) 



Quam E. mexicana paullo magis ovata, nigra, nitida, thorace elytrisque testaceo-fulvis, illo plaga dorsali ramosa 

 variabili, his vitta utrinque obliqua plagaque poatscutellari (interdum per suturam continuata) nigris ;. 

 froDte confluenter punctata, clypeo tf quadrato-subporrecto (antice paullulum dilatato-rotundato), margine 

 alte reflexo ; thorace medio subangulatim dilatato, antice valde angustato, postice lateribus parallelis, angulis 

 anticis valde acutis, posticis rectis, margine basali angusto integro, disco prope marginem dedivi, passim 



