Mimographopsis pustulatus Champion 1911

Oblong, shining, black; above sparsely clothed with small, whitish, cinereous, or green scales intermixed with minute pallid hair-like scales, the larger scales clustered into various scattered dense spots on the elytra and two faint vittæ on the prothorax; beneath somewhat densely squamose along the sides and sparsely clothed with short, fine, adpressed hairs down the middle; the scales on the legs uniformly cinereous or green with those on the knees blue. Head and rostrum finely punctate, sulcate down the middle, the rostrum finely carinate on each side; antennal scape reaching beyond the eyes, joint 2 of the funiculus much longer than 1. Prothorax transverse, narrowed in front, broadly depressed down the middle, rugulosely punctate. Scutellum very small, subtriangular, vertical, squamose. Elytra moderately long, subparallel in their basal half in ♂, broader and gradually widened to the middle in ♀, produced and conjointly rounded at the apex, with a common transverse excavation immediately below the base (the basal margin to the 3rd row of punctures thus appearing raised); coarsely, closely seriate-punctate, the interstices punctate and feebly convex, the spaces occupied by the patches of larger scales appearing somewhat depressed. First ventral segment hollowed down the middle in ♂. Anterior tibiæ unguiculate and feebly denticulate.
 
Length 7—11, breadth 2 1/5—4 1/10 millim. (♂ ♀.)

The scales green, those on the head and prothorax condensed into two sharply defined vittæ, and those on the elytra into oblong subconfluent patches on the alternate interstices and an oval subapical spot; the rostrum depressed in the middle, with a shorter median sulcus and the lateral carina wanting; the prothorax granulate; the elytra transversely rugose at the base (♀).

Hab.COSTA RICA, Santa Clara (Biolley), Monte Retondo (Underwood), Turrialba, Tucurrique (U. S. Nat. Mus.); PANAMA, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).

Eighteen specimens, all but four from Costa Rica, the latter including both green and cinereous forms, the variety (fig. 5) being from Tucurrique. This species bears an extraordinary resemblance to the Costa Rican and Panama insect described by Pascoe under the name of Eustales stellaris*; but may be distinguished from it at a glance by the more slender antennæ, the prominent, strictly lateral eyes, the sulcate (not carinate) rostrum, the non-mucronate apices of the elytra, &c. From M. viridicans it may be separated by the more sparsely squamose upper surface—the scales on the elytra clustered into spots or streaks (which sometimes tend to form oblique or curved series across the disc) and the seriate punctures more numerous,

—the non-tuberculate elytra of the female, and the less acuminate apex of the penis-sheath in the male.* = Præpodes jekelianus, White (♀).

Var. The scales green, those on the head and prothorax condensed into two sharply defined vittæ, and those on the elytra into oblong subconfluent patches on the alternate interstices and an oval subapical spot; the rostrum depressed in the middle, with a shorter median sulcus and the lateral carina wanting; the prothorax granulate; the elytra transversely rugose at the base (♀).