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The following Mexican species, the most southerly yet recorded, are perfectly 









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l. Curtonotus deparcus. 



Platysma deparca, Say, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. iv. 1834, p. 426 l . 



Curtonotus substriatus, Putzeys, Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 1866, p. 242 2 . 



Hab. Mexico x 2 , near the city, Toluca (SallS). 



Say's description certainly refers to this species, and not to the following, although 

 he makes no mention of the toothed middle tibia? of the male. The feebly impressed 

 striae, obsolete towards the apex, and the size, " nearly half an inch," apply to C. sub- 

 striatus and not to C. putzeysi. 



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2. Curtonotus putzeysi. (Tab. IV. fig. 1.) 



Curtonotus put zey si, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 600 \ 



Elongato-oblongus, niger nitidus, subtus cum pedibus picescens, antennis et palpis piceo-rufis ; thorace late- 

 ribus valde rotundatis, juxta basin fortiter subito constricto, angiitis posticis rectis, limbo antice et postice 

 grosse punotato ; elytris thorace vix latioribus, parallelis, striis conspicue punetatis, omnibus acute 













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impressis 



cJ tibiis intermediis medio intus haud dentatis. 





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Hah. Mexico, near the capital (Flohr 1 ), Guanajuato (Duges,coll. Salle), Jalapa (Edge). 





" Differs from C. suhstriatus by its larger size and 

 the stronger and more uniform striation of the elytra 

 broad tooth on the inner side of the middle tibiae. 



more robust proportions, and by 



The male is destitute of the 



mmature individuals are reddish 





piceous with pale margins. 



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CELIA. 



Celia 



Putzeys, Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege, 1866, 



p. 186. 



About sixty species of this genus have b 





hemisphere; but the g 



Curtonotus. 



>en described. All are from the northern 

 has, upon the whole, a more southerly extension than 













1. Celia moerens. 



Celia moerens, Zimm. loc. cit. p. 25 l ; Putzeys, loc. cit. p. 189 









Hal. Mexico 1 2 , Toluca (Salle), near the city (Flohr), Las Vigas (Edge). 





2. Celia lugens. 



Celia lugens, Zimm. loc. cit. p. 25 * ; Putzeys, loc. cit. p. 189 



Rah. Mexico x 2 . 









Putzeys was unable to determine Zimmermann's species with any degree of certainty 

 It is possibly one of the numerous varieties of C. mexicana. 









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