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3. Celia hogei 



Subelongato-ovata, convexa, nigra, interdum cyaneo vel seneo leviter tincta, sat nitida, an tennis articulis duobns 

 basalibus palpisque apice rnfis ; capite brevi, foveis frontalibus linearibus sat profundis ; thorace valde 

 transverso, a basi ad apieem paullo arcuatim fortiter angustato, foveis basalibus parum impressis, interdum 

 (prsecipue exteriore) obsoletis ; elytris ( $ ) sericeo-nitentibus, humeris dentatis, subpunctulato-striatis, 

 striis vix impressis, interstitiis usque ad apieem planis, striola scutellari antice abbreviata basi simplicL 





















Long. 3A-44 lin. tf $ . 



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Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas, Oaxaca (Edge), Jacale (SallS), city of Mexico (Flohr). 









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Smaller and much less elongate than C. mcerens^ but larger and broader than C. 







carta: the thorax 



lly much sho 



broader 



base, and more narrowed 



















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The stride of the elytra vary in the distinctness of 



punctuat 



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4. Celia champ 



Jwge 



seneo, striisque distinctius punctulatis. 



rufis 



gros 



funde incisa, exteriore obliqua conspicua ; elytris acute striatis, striis plus minusve punctulatis, interstitiis 

 ( c? ) convexis, ( $ ) plerumque planis, striola scutellari apud basin absque foveola ; pedibus piceis. 

 Long. 3|-4 lin. <$ $ . 





Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas, Oaxaca (Hoge), San Luis Potosi (Br. Palmer) ; Guatemala 





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Ostuncalco, Totonicapam, Quezaltenango (Champion) 



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Except in colour, not easily distinguishable from C. hogei ; but if the shallow 



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character. The thorax, attentively examined, is alway 



much less widened from the front to the b 

 strongly impressed. 



the basal foveee are much mor 





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Mr. Champion collected the species in great numbers, and has sent home no colour 





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5. Celia costaricensis. 









Celia costaricensis } Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 600 







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Oblongo-ovata, nigra, polita, plus minusve senescens vel fusco-senea ; antennis piceo-nigris, articulis 1° et 2° 

 vel l°-3 m rufis ; thorace convexo, mox pone augulos anticos rotundato-dilatato, deinde usque ad basin 

 leviter arcuato vel subrecto, basi utrinque foveolis duabus distantibus laevibus, interiore recta, exteriore 

 versus angulum oblique ducta ; elytris prope apieem angustatis et compressis, striatis, striis lateralibus 

 evanescentibus, striola scutellari ad basin secundse oriente suturam haud attingente, interstitiis paullo 

 convexis ; pedibus piceis, tarsis pallidioribus ; prosterni apice dilatato subtruncato. 

























" Long. 4 lin. 



" Yariat : 1, elytrorum interstitiis planissimis ; 2, striis subtilissimis, subpunctulatis ; 3, forma abbreviata, ovata." 



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Hab. Costa Eica, Irazu, alt. 6000-7000 feet (Rogers l ). 









Of decidedly narrower form than either of the three preceding ; narrower also 

 C. mcerens, which it resembles in colour and in the feeble striation of the elyt 



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