272 LAMELLICOENIA. 



by Waterhouse, i. e. elytra bright red with a central black fascia. Some examples from 

 Colombia and Panama have the elytra entirely red, or black with a basal fascia only red. 



4. Euteia viridianrata. 



Oblongo-ovata, viridi-aurata, resplendens ; capite fere laevi, clypeo breviter et obtuse bidentato, reflexo ; thorace 

 laevi, medio sat late rotundato, sulco marginali lato transversim strigoso, angulis posticis subrectis, margine 

 basali medio late recto, versus angulum utrinque valde sinuato ibique basi elytrorum sublobato penetranti ; 

 elytris disco striato-punctulatis, lateribus late impunctatis interstitiisque lato subsuturali confuse punc- 

 tulato. Pygidium ( 5 ?) valde convexum, sparse ramoso-strigulosum, margine apicali arcuatim sinuato. 

 Processus sternalis conicus, crassus. 



Long. 14 millim. 



Hah. Costa Rica (coll. Bates). 



CNEMIDA. 



Cnemida, Kirby, Zool. Journ. iii. p. 146 (1827); Burmeister, Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 378; 

 Lacordaire, Gen. Col. iii. p. 351. 

 Peculiar to Tropical America. Two species only have been described, but several 

 others are known in collections. 



1. Cnemida aterrima. (Tab. XV. fig. 21.) 



G. return affinis, differt colore ebenino-nigro politissimo, elytris interdum litura parva mediana transversa fulva ; 

 thorace aequaliter convexo, absque foveis et strigis ; elytris laavibus, foveola ramosa profunda basali (fundo 

 lineatim punctata) altera parva laterali ; pygidio medio laevi lateribus et apice strigoso, $ apice magis, 

 2 minus, convexo. 



Long. 12-13 millim. tf 2 • 



Hah. Mexico (Salle, in coll. Sturm), Santecomapan (Salle), Misantla (Hoge) ; Guate™ 

 mala, Chacoj (Champion)-, Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 



Many examples. I have adopted the MS. name which this species bears in the 

 Salle collection. 



A Chontales specimen is figured. 



2. Cnemida intermedia. 



Ebenino-nigra, polita, elytris medio fascia angusta fiexuosa fulva, thorace medio convexo laevi (subtiliter sparsim 

 punctulat'o) dorso anteriore utrinque fovea magna ramosa, altera parva versus angulum posticum, et toto 

 limbo laterali acute nexuoso-strigosis ; elytris laevibus, in foveolis et versus apicem lineolis impressis 

 punctatis. Pygidium 6 $ inaequaliter convexum, lateribus multi-retusis, strigosum, medio tantum 

 laevissimum. 



Long. 10-11 millim. 6 2 . 



Hah. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Tole, David (Champion). 



Three examples. 



In sculpture this species or subspecies more nearly resembles the South-Brazilian 

 C. laceraia (Germ.) than the C. return of Guiana and the Amazons yalley. It differs 



