410 SUPPLEMENT. 



minute scabrosus, auratus, sutura frontali impressa, fronteque utrinque juxta oculum aureo-marginata ; 

 tborax conspicue angustior, post dilatationem nullo modo dilatatus angulisque posticis fere rotundatis, 

 subtiliter punctulatus ; elytra sicut in P. lecontei valde punctato-striata, dorso paullulum planato, callo 

 apicali baud metallico. Pygidium fere lseve. Subtus longe, peetore longius et densius, fulvo-villosa. 

 Pedes flavi, aBneo-metallici, tarsia rufioribus. J '? Antennae quam in P. lecontei longiores clavaque cgeteris 

 articulis conjunctis longiore, rufse. 

 Long. 26 millim. 



Hob. Mexico, Sierra Nevada de Colima 11000 feet (Richardson). 

 One example. 



20 (b). Plusiotis orizabae. (Tab. XXIV. fig. 24.) 



P. lecontei (partim), antea pp. 283,, 284. 



P. lecontei affinissiraa, sed multo major, elytris lastius metallico-nitentibus, etc. Oblonga, robusta, supra 

 pomaceo-viridis, elytris argenteo-viridi tinctis; tborax basin versus minus dilatatus angulisque magis 

 obtusis, margine laterali paullo flexuoso, subtilissime alutaceus et distinctius punctulatus ; elytra punctato- 

 striata, interstitiis convexis. Pygidium et propygidium argenteo (subaurato) metallica. Pectus dense 

 fulvo-cinereo-villosus (P. lecontei villositate vulpino-rufo). Femora et abdomen sicut in P. lecontei 

 argenteo-rosacea, tibiis et tarsis viridi-ameis. 



Long. 30 millim. 



Hal. Mexico, Suapam, Volcan de Orizaba (Salle). 



M. Salle is of opinion that this species does not belong to Plusiotis ; but I can see no 

 difference except in the shorter and more semicircular clypeus, which it has in common 

 with P. lecontei and P. alticola. The base of the labrum is broad and sinuated as it is 

 in Plusiotis and the Kutelidae generally. 



The unique example is in a damaged condition and I am not sure that the outline of 

 the thorax has not been distorted. The colour of the dense and long villosity of the 

 breast is the character which chiefly inclines me to think the species is distinct from 

 P. lecontei. 



CHRYSINA (p. 285). 

 Chrysina macropus (p. 285). 



Var. mniszechi. 



Mr. Flohr believes that Herr Hoge's examples of this variety came, not from Jalapa, 

 but from the neighbourhood of Tepansacualco. 



Tar. adoljjhi. 



To the Mexican localities given, add :— Omilteme 8000 feet, and Xautipa in 

 Guerrero (H. H. Smith). 



Two females, one male, the latter belonging rather to the var. mniszechi ; but all 

 gradations between these two forms are now known. 



