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pubescence is also rather paler and finer. The club of the antenna is but little 
different from that of €. instadile, but is apparently a little shorter. ‘Ten specimens. 
6. Cryptorhopalum flammulatum, sp. n. 
Breviter ovale, convexum ; capite pectoreque nigricantibus ; pronoto, elytris abdomineque brunneis; antennis 
pedibusque testaceis; griseo-pubescens, elytris fasciis duabus angustis distantibus. 
Long. 24 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador (Champion). 
This is another close ally of C. instadile. The thorax is abundantly clothed with 
pale pubescence. The elytra have a postmedian and a postbasal fascia, which extend 
but little in the longitudinal direction (the fascie thus appearing to be widely separated) ; 
and they have also some pale pubescence scattered over the rest of the surface, and so 
rendering the two bands less definite, but this does not extend along the suture. ‘The 
two examples are, I think, male and female; if so, there is less difference than usual in 
the antennal club, which is rather small, oval, with the first joint not quite so long as 
broad, and not very much larger than the terminal joint. 
7. Cryptorhopalum germanum, sp. n. (Tab. XIX. figs. 20a, ¢ antenna: 
206, 2 antenna.) 
Breviter ovale, convexum, griseo-pubescens, nigrum, elytris apicem versus plus minusve rufescentibus, fasclisque 
transversis irregularibus ornatis ; antennarum basi pedibusque rufis. 
Long. 2-22 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Sallé), Tonila, Colima (Hoge), Amula, Acaguizotla, 
Rincon, Cuernavaca (H. H. Smith) ; GUATEMALA, near the city, Capetillo, Duefias, 
Zapote (Champion). 
In this species the elytra are sometimes almost entirely black, and sometimes almost 
entirely red; in all cases, however, there is a certain extent of red at the tip and some 
black near the scutellum, but there is no alternation of the red and black ; the preapical, 
band of pale pubescence is always distinct, and at the suture sends an angle backwards 
that connects with the spot at the tip. The premedian band of pubescence is com- 
paratively slender and scanty. ‘The antenne have the club dark, the apical joint larger 
than the preceding one, but not twice as large. The thorax is covered with a grey 
pubescence, with vague darker spots or rather small areas. The punctuation of the 
upper surface is very fine. The pubescence of the elytra is grey on the basal portions, 
always more or less flavescent or rufescent on the apical bands and spots; between the 
bands the pubescence is dark. On the underside the grey pubescence is very distinct. 
We have received a large series of this species, which is apparently a common insect 
in Mexico and Guatemala. It seems to be allied to C. hemorrhoidale, Lec. 
