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although much more glossy on the surface. I have not seen it from any other locality 

 than that above mentioned, where Rogers collected it in great abundance. 







6. Celia tenebrionella. (Tab. IV. fig. 2.) 



Minor, oblongo-ovata, nigra vix seneo tincta, antennis (articulo 1° vel 1° et 2° rufis exceptis), palpis pedibusque 



piceo-nigris, tibiis interdum nifo-piceis ; thorace transverso, apud basin elytris latitudine 8Bquali, deinde 



tisque ad apicem gradatiin et leviter arcuatim angustato, fere laevi, foveis basalibus vix impressis ; elytris 

 subpunctulato-striatis, interstitiis leviter convexis, striola scutellari absque foveola, stria 7 a fere obsoleta. 

 Long. 3 lin. S 2 . 



Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Edge). 



7. Celia xanthognatha. 



C. tenehrionellce affinissima, forsan ejus varietas ; differt colore laete seneo, mandibulis (apice exeepto) flavis, 



striolaque scutellari obsoleta. 

 Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Mexico, Las Vigas (Hbge). 



Probably an extraordinary colour-variety of C. tenebrionella. The form and sculpture 



are 



ctly the 



with the 



ption of the obliteration of th 



stride, 



which, however, in C. tenebrionella is sometimes very faint. It is a much smaller and 

 narrower insect than C. mexicana^ which it resembles at first sight. 



8. Celia mexicana. 



Amara mexicana, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 792 \ 



Celia mexicana, Putzeys, Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege^ 1866, p. 190 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Orizaba 2 , Chiapas 2 , Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle), Parada, Puebla 





Capulalpam, Toluca {Salle) 



city (Salle, Flohr), Las Vigas, Jalapa, Oaxaca 



(Hbge), San Luis Potosi (Dr. Palmer) ; Guatemala, Totonicapam (Champion). 



The antennae in the great majority of the specimens are tawny red, with the basal 

 joints a little brighter red. 



9. Celia dolosa. 



Amara dolosa, Say, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. iv. p. 429 (1834) \ 



Hah. Mexico \ Puebla (Salle). 



Say describes a bluish-black species, three tenths of an inch long, with very fine 

 impunctate striae and flat interstices, strongly marked oblique fovea near thoracic angles, 

 and antennae dark with the three basal joints yellow. 



These characters do not fit 



of the two black species (C. hogei and C. tenebrionella) above described, but agree fairly 



well with 



the Salle 



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Say 



the only difference 



labelled (I think erroneously) " Celia 



of colour* the 



Salle examples being distinctly 



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