354 LAMELLICOENIA. 



city, Lagos in Aguas Calientes, Tonila in Colima, Colima city, Guadalajara, Matamoros 

 Izucar and Atlixco in Puebla, Jalapa (Hoge), Alamos (Buchan-Hepburn), Guerrero 

 (Baron), Presidio (Forrer), Cordova, Puebla, Vera Cruz, Juquila, Oaxaca, Etla, Guana- 

 juato (Salle) ; Guatemala (Salle), San Isidro, San Geronimo (Champion), 



Avery large number of examples. The chief colour-varieties are: — (1) ochreous- 

 tawny, (2) rich fulvous-brown, (3) dark purplish-brown, and (4) ashy-black, none of 

 which seem to be local except no. 3, all the examples of which come from Colima city, 

 some of them impunctate and others more or less strongly punctured. But the punc- 

 tuation, which is the sole character of C. punctata of Blanchard, is present in certain 

 specimens of all the colour-varieties, and, though apparently more frequent in those from 

 the central and northern plateaux, is evidently of very little importance. 



2. Gymnetis uniformis. 



Gymnetis uniformis, Blanch. Cat. Coll. Ent. i. p. 36 \ 



Hab. Mexico (Ghiesbreght 1 ); Guatemala, near the city alt. 5000 feet (Salvin, coll. 

 Bates). 



A small example ( $ , 20 millim.), evidently referable to this species, distinguished by 

 its dark coppery under surface, legs, and pygidium, was brought from Guatemala by 

 Mr. Salvin. The upperside is dark, nearly black, and velvety ; the sternal process is 

 formed as in G. cinerea. 



3. Gymnetis liturata. 



Cetonia liturata, Olivier, Ent. i. 6, p. 86, t. 12. fig. 121. 



Gymnetis liturata, Gory & Perch. Monogr. Cetoin. p. 369, t. 73. fig. 1 1 ; Burm. Handb. der Ent. 

 iii. p. 272 2 . 

 Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Salle), Jalapa (Hoge) ; British Honduras (Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala (Salle), Cerro Zunil, Zapote, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion), Coban 

 (Conradt); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten), Rio Sucio, 

 Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet, David, Caldera 

 (Champion). — South America, Venezuela to S. Brazil. 



4. Gymnetis ocellata. 



Gymnetis ocellata, Gory & Perch. Monogr. Cetoin. p. 368, t. 74. fig. 5 x ; Burm. Handb. der Ent. 

 iii. p. 274 \ 

 Hab. Mexico, Frontera in Tabasco (H. H. Smith) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). — 

 South America 1 2 . 



5. Gymnetis argenteola. (Tab. XXII. fig, 7.) 



Sat anguste oblonga, subviridescenti-flava, opaca, capite antice, thoracis margine incrassato, epimeris, scutello 

 et corpore subtus pedibusque splendide cobaltino-argenteis ; capite sparsim (plerumque arcuatim) punctate-, 



