358 LAMELLICOENIA. 



16. Gymnetis poecila. 



Gymnetis pcecila, Schaum, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. p. 66, t. 8. fig. 2 (1848) \ 

 Hab. Mexico \ Puebla (Salle), Guerrero (Baron). 



17. Gymnetis sallaei. 



Gymnetis Sallei, Schanm, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1849, p. 255 \ 

 Gymnetis marmorea, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iii. p. 285 (nee Olivier) . 

 Gymnetis tristis, Burm. loc. cit. v. p. 551 (nee Olivier). 



Hab. Noeth Ameeica, Louisiana 1 . — Mexico \ Cordova, Orizaba (Salle), Jalapa, 

 Playa. Vicente (Edge); Guatemala, Escuintla (Conradt). 



The large female example from Escuintla has the thorax and mesothoracic epimera 

 entirely black. 



18. Gymnetis stellata. (Tab. XXII. fig. 16.) 



Cetonia stellata, Latreille, in Humb. & Bonpl. Obs. Zool. ii. p. 43, t. 33. fig. 2. 



Gymnetis stellata, Burm. Handb, der Ent. iii. p. 298; Gorv & Perch. Monogr. Cetoin. p. 350, t. 70. 



Macronota radiata, Wiedemann, Analecta Entom. p. 8 2 . 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba (Salle), Guadalajara (Hoge); Panama (coll. Bates). — South 

 Ameeica 1 2 , Santa Marta, Colombia. 



The example figured is from Orizaba. 



GUATEMALICA. 



Guatemalica, Van de Poll, Notes from the Leyd. Mus. viii. p. 138 (1886). 

 Allorhina, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xiv. p. 6. 



Distinguished from Gymnetis, with which it agrees in the velvety-opaque upper 

 surface of the body, by the clypeus being narrowed to the front and triangularly (not 

 very deeply) emarginated at the apex, the spinose-dentate apices of the four hinder 

 tibise, and (in the typical species) by the acuminate sternal process curved upwards at 

 the apex. The abdomen in the males is depressed and longitudinally subsulcate in 

 the middle. 



The following two species only, both peculiar to Central America, are known. The 

 second differs from G. hueti in the sternal process being shorter, acutely conical, and not 

 recurved at the apex. 



1. Guatemalica hueti. 



Allorhina hueti, Chevrolat, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xiv. p. 6, 1. 1. fig. I 1 . 



Hab. Guatemala 1 , Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 

 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 



The underside is similar in both sexes, shining black, glabrous, with small chalky- 



