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The examination of a large series has shown that G. ramulosa is only a slight and 

 inconstant variety of G. chevrolati ; but I have seen no specimen agreeing in the yellow 

 lines of the elytra with Gory and Percheron's figure except one from Mr. Edwin 

 Brown's collection labelled " Panama." In all the others the yellow fascia very nearly 

 reaches the suture and in some both the fascia and borders are of considerable width, a 

 small dark spot remaining at the junction of the fascia and border on each side. The 

 colour of the upperside varies from dark olivaceous-brown to rich purplish-black. In 

 the original description 1 of G. ramulosa the symbols of the sexes were accidentally 

 reversed ; it is the male that has the under surface dark (blackish) grey, and the 

 female the glossy-black abdomen and middle of the sternum. 



13. Gymnetis kerremansi. (Tab. XXI. figg. 7, 8.) 



Gymnetis kerremansi, Van de Poll, Notes from the Leyden Mus. viii. p. 231 \ 



Sab. Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion), Isthmus of 

 Panama *. 



Our five examples (three males, two females) agree with V. de Poll's description, if 

 we may understand his terms " cervina " and " fallow " to mean bluish-grey, for this 

 is the colour of the underside, the mesosternal epimera, and the vague spots and 

 borders of the numerous black spots and streaks which on a ground of ochreous make 

 up the beautiful and highly diversified colour-pattern of the upperside. The males 

 have more bluish-grey above, and the yellow spots of the female are more orange- 

 coloured. 



14. Gymnetis callispila. (Tab. XXII. fig. 15, <j .) 



Brevius quadrata, sat convexa, O. radiicolli similis ; supra laete ochreo-flava (interdum subaurantiaca), nigro- 

 maculata et plagiata nee maculis in lineas prolongates sicut in O. radiicolli, fronte macula mediana ; 

 thorace plaga magna angulata basali (usque ad lobi basin extensa) strigis duabus flavis includente et 

 antice vitta emittente, lateribus utrinque bi- et antice quadri-maculato ; epimeris antice ochreis, postice 

 nigris ; elytris maculis plerumque in plagas majores sed irregulares congestis, margine angusto laterali 

 latioreque apicali flavo immaculate Subtus S ocbrea, nigro-punctata,'mesosterni medio ventrisque fasciis 

 medianis quatuor nigris, hirsutie nigra ; $ ventre toto nigro polito. Processus sternalis oblique dependens, 

 apice inferiore paullo curvato. 



Long. 21-24 millim. tf $ • 



Hab. Mexico, Tern ax in North Yucatan (Gaumer). 



15. Gymnetis radiicollis. (Tab. XXII. fig. 14.) 



Gymnetis radiicollis, Burm. Handb. der Ent. v. p. 552 \ 

 Hab. Mexico \ Orizaba (Salle). 



One (female) example in the Salle collection. Besides the differences of colour- 

 pattern on the upperside, this species is distinguished from G. callispila by the greyish- 

 black epimera and under surface, and the more prolonged and narrower sternal 

 process. 



