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golden-green, but the claws generally piceous. The sternal process is very short and 

 conical. 



17. Plusiotis laniventris. 



$ . Pelidnota laniventris, Sturm, Cat. 1843, p. 339, t. 3. fig. 5 \ 

 ? . Pelidnota latipennis, Sturm, loc. cit. p. 338, t. 3. fig. 4 2 . 

 Plusiotis laniventris, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 420 3 . 



Hah. Mexico 123 (Salle, ex coll. Sturm, 6 2), Jalapa (Flohr, Edge). 



The male only has the abdomen and pygidium clothed with long soft blonde hairs ; 

 the pubescence of the sternum is also longer and denser than in the allied species. 

 The elytra are coarsely and rugosely punctured throughout and furrowed with deep 

 punctured strise. All the tibise are very coarsely scabrose-punctate on their outer sides. 



18. Plusiotis adelaida. (Tab. XVI. fig. 17.) 



Pelidnota adelaida, Hope, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. Aug. 3, 1840 ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. Proc. p. 8 \ 

 Plusiotis adelaida, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 421 2 ; Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 121 3 . 

 Pelidnota ornatissima, Sturm, Cat. 1843, p. 341, t. 3. fig. 7*. 



Hal. Mexico l 2 4 , La Parada near Oaxaca 3 (Salle), Jalapa, Oaxaca (Hoge) ; Guate- 

 mala, San Geronimo (Champion). 



Fourteen examples, including all colour-gradations from the green type-form with 

 silvery elytral vittse to a dark coppery-red with silvery-green vittse, and the type-speci- 

 men of Sturm's P. ornatissima, which is intermediate in colours. The sternal process 

 is very short and obtusely triangular. An example from La Parada is figured. 



19. Plusiotis rodriguezi. 



Plusiotis rodriguezi, Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 295, t. 16. fig. I 1 . 



Hah. Guatemala, near the city (Rodriguez 1 ), Totonicapam, Quiche Mountains 7000 

 to 9000 feet (Champion). 



An oblong apple-green species with silvery tinge, not unlike P. lacordairei ; the 

 humeral and apical calli of the elytra and margins are polished silvery-green, and the 

 underside, femora, and tarsi metallic light green, with the sterna and legs and sides of 

 abdomen clothed (in the male) with blonde pubescence as long and dense as in 

 P. laniventris. The outer sides of the tibise are reddish. The sternal process is 

 extremely short, tuberculiform, and polished. 



20. Plusiotis lecontei. (Tab. XVI. fig. 19.) 



Plusiotis lecontei, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 120 '. 



Hah. North America, Arizona 1 , New Mexico l . — Mexico, Pinos Altos in Chihuahua 

 (Buchan-Hephum), Ciudad in Durango (Forrer), Suapan, Volcan de Orizaba (Salle). 



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