288 LAMELLICOBNIA. 



1. Heterosternus buprestoides. 



Heterosternus buprestoides, Dupont, in Guerin's Mag. Zool. 1832, Ins. t. 10 '. 

 Ilab. Mexico 1 . 



This species is not contained in our collections. 



2. Heterosternus rodriguezi. (Tab. XVI. fig. 18, e .) 



Heterosternus rodriguezii, Candeze in Har. Col. Hefte, v. p. 43 \ 



Hab. Guatemala 1 , Los Diamantes (Champion) ; Panama, Chiriqui (coll. Bates). 



Ochreous-tawny above, with the margins of the head and thorax and frontal suture 

 edged with black, the underside dark chestnut-brown. The male differs from that of 

 H. buprestoides in the elytra not being narrowed and prolonged at the apex, and in the 

 hind tibiae being strongly curved and densely fringed inside with fulvous hairs. 



Mr. Champion obtained one example only, a male, on the Guatemalan Pacific slope. 

 A female specimen from Chiriqui, resembling an ordinary Pelidnota in form and many 

 years in my collection without a name, almost exactly resembles the Guatemalan 

 male in colour and sculpture ; it differs only in the suture and outer margin of the 

 elytra, as well as the head and thorax, being narrowly edged with black. The male 

 example from Los Diamantes is figured. 



PARISOLEA. 



Gen. Macropoidi proxime affinis, sed sexus quoad pedes posticos etc. haud diversi. Corpus oblongo-ovatum, 

 mediocriter eonvexum. Clypeus trapezoidalis, angulis anticis rotundatis, margine acute reflexo, antice 

 profunde et sat anguste sinuato ; sutura frontalis flexuosa. Handibulse acuminatae, ascendentes. Labrum 

 omnino deflexum. Antennae articulis 3°-6 m cylindricis arete conjunctis. Thorax basi immarginatus. 

 Elytra supra coxas posticas leviter angulatim dilatata. Prosterni processus postcoxalis brevis, triangularis, 

 planns ; mesosterni mucro ultra coxas productus sat planus. Pedes <$ § mediocres ; tibiae 4 posteriores 

 apice extus unispinosas ; tarsi omnes unguibus majoribus apice furcatis; <S tarsi anteriores ungue majore 

 longiore et robustiore denteque superiore tenui, spiniformi. 



Two new species from Mexico are referable to this genus. 



1. Parisolea alba. 



Supra albo-, subtus fulvo-, testacea, nitida ; capite thoraceque toto sparse punctatis, hoc prope medium rotundato- 

 dilatato, postice parum antice fortius angustato, angulis anticis subrectis, posticis obtusis subrotundatis, 

 margine laterali tenui usque ultra angulum posticum continuato ; elytris punctato-striatis, striis 3 a , 4 a et 

 5 a 6 a que geminatis, interstitiis planis laevibus, 2° (inter striam suturalem et 2 m ) lato postice punctata, lateribus 

 striis quatuor paullo irregularibus. Pygidium d 1 paullulum eonvexum, $ planum, transverse strigulosum. 

 Pectus albo-villosus. 



Long. 19-21 millim. S $ . 



Hab. Mexico, near the city (X) (Flohr). 



2. Parisolea Mva. (Tab. XVII. fig. 1.) 



P. alba differt solum colore fulvo- vel rufo-testacea. d 1 $ . 

 Long. 18-20 millim. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Edge). Six examples. 



