264 LAMELLICOENIA. 



4. Lagochile brunnipes. 



Cetonia brunnipes, Olivier, Ent. i. no. 6, p. 77, t. 6. fig. 50. 

 Chasmodia brunnipes, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 342 \ 

 Chasmodia marginicollis , Castelnau, Hist. Nat. Ins. ii. p. 118 2 . 

 Ometis brunnipes, Lacordaire, Gen. Col. iii. p. 344, nota. 



Hal. Nicaragua, Chontales {Belt). — South Ameeica, Surinam, Cayenne 12 , Amazons 

 {coll. Bates). 



Burmeister gives a description of this species, which is very good, except as to the 

 emphasized convexity. In the numerous examples I have examined the elytra, though 

 varying considerably, show at most but little convexity of surface. Among the pecu- 

 liarities of the species is the continuity of the marginal groove of the thorax, which 

 extends at least to the hind angle, and sometimes passes it and runs for a short distance 

 along the basal margin. 



CALOMACRASPIS. 



Macraspis, § 1, Burmeister, Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 345 (1844). 

 Antichira, Div. 1, Blanchard, Cat. Coll. Ent. i. p. 204. 



The first division of Antichira seems to me to offer sufficiently well-marked and 

 numerous structural characters to merit generic distinction. It differs from Antichira 

 proper in the following points : — mandibles with the exterior edge rounded, unarmed ; 

 clypeus small, and, in the species where it is not concealed by the close sculpture, 

 separated from the forehead by a fine, though broadly interrupted, suture ; labrum 

 porrect, horizontal ; thorax with a large acute-angular basal lobe (the angles sharply 

 indenting the base of the elytra), and the basal margin on each side very deeply 

 sinuated to the acute and produced hind angle ; and tarsal claws in both sexes simple. 



Four species are known, from Tropical America, perfectly concordant in the above 

 characters *. 



1. Calomacraspis splendens. (Tab. XV. figg. 4; 5, var.) 



Macraspis splendens, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 345 \ 



Hob. Mexico \ Cordova, Orizaba, Parada, Vera Cruz, Chiapas (Salle), Jalapa, Mata- 

 moros Izucar (Edge), Alamos (Buchan-Hephurn). 



* One of them is as yet undescribed : — 



Calomacraspis nigripennis. 



C. haroldi (Candeze) affinis. Laete pomaceo-viridis, subtus metallica, tarsis cupreo-auratis, elytris purpuraseenti- 

 nigris ; clypeo brevissimo arcuato confertim punctato, margine cupreo, sutura frontali medio interrupta 

 fortiter impressa, fronte crebre punctata ; thorace disperse, postice subtilius et sparsius, punctato, lobo 

 basali apice valde arcuato; scutello latissime triangulari, laavi ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis 

 alternis latissimis punctulatis ; pygidio punctulato, subruguloso ; processu mesosterni paullo descendenti 

 et curvato, verticaliter crasso, apice baud incrassato. 



Long. 18 millim. $ . 



Hah. Uppeb Amazons, Ega. 



