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posteriorly, shallow anteriorly and narrow. There is a small marginal spot below the 

 shoulder, another just behind it ; a larger cuneiform spot about the middle, and four or 

 five spots along the apical margin ; there is a transverse streak about halfway between 

 the cuneiform spot and the apex ; and on the second and third interstices there are 

 several very small yellow dots. The apical segment of the abdomen is narrowed, but is 

 slightly obtuse at the apex itself. 



19. Acmseodera stellaris. (Tab. II. fig. 10.) 



Acmaodera stellaris, Chevr. Col. Mex. fasc. viii. p. 189. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



I do not know what the species is which Gory (Mon. Suppl. p. 28, t. 5. f. 25) has 

 figured and described under this name. It cannot be the A. stellaris of Chevrolat, the 

 type of which is now in the British Museum, and is narrower, differently spotted, has 

 no lateral impression on the thorax, and belongs more nearly to the A. pulchella group ; 

 whilst A. stellaris, Gory, resembles A. rubronotata, but has a yellow line at the side of 

 the thorax. The head and thorax of A. scalaris put on to the elytra of A. rubronotata 

 would give a good idea of the species, judging from the figure. 



A. stellaris, Chevr., of Spinola (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 364) appears to be A. rubro- 

 notata, but he does not describe the colours. 



20. Acmseodera setosa. (Tab. II. fig. 9.) 



Nigra, parum nitida ; thorace conf ertim ruguloso-punctato, basi medio impressa, lateribus oblique foveolatis ; 

 elytris quam thorax paulo angustioribus parallels, ad apicem angustatis, supra paulo depressis, fortiter 

 punctato-striatis, interstitiis angustis, brevissime pallide setosis, macula parva pone humeros, altera 

 obliqua ad medium, et duabus ante apicem flavo-ferrugineis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Mexico (Salle). 



This species is allied to A. ornata, Fabr., but in form is somewhat intermediate 

 between that and A. tubulus, Fabr. The thorax is a very little broader than the elytra, 

 and the latter are slightly impressed on the back, so that it may well be placed near 

 A. ornata. Head rather densely clothed with testaceous pubescence. Thorax very 

 closely, rather strongly, but not deeply punctured ; the disk is slightly impressed, and 

 there is a somewhat large deep impression in the middle of the base; within each 

 posterior angle there is a deep impression, which is carried forwards obliquely to near 

 the anterior angle. The elytra are nearly parallel for three quarters their length and 

 then narrow to the apex. The punctures in the strise are strong and generally ovate. 

 The three or four interstices nearest the suture are about the width of the punctures in 

 the strise, shining, each with a single line of very fine, rather remote, punctures ; the 

 following interstices are very narrow, narrower than the punctures in the strise ; the 

 eighth is again a little broader and a little more elevated, and has its surface uneven, 



