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and easily separable from the allied forms by the very faint elytral costse, with the 

 interspaces between the subseriate punctures thickly, minutely punctulate. The 

 description is taken from the Central-American specimens. The type has much paler 



elytra. 



7. Callirrhipis vestita. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 15, 6 ; 16, $ ; 16 a, antenna, $ .) 

 £ . Callirhipis vestita, Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1834, p. 252 \ 



c? . Very elongate, narrow, subcylindrical, dull ; variable in colour — pitchy-black, fuscous, or brown, the head 

 and prothorax sometimes rufescent or rufescent with a black median vitta, ferruginous with the elytra 

 brownish-testaceous in pale specimens ; the antennae and legs ferruginous or brown ; thickly clothed with 

 fine, silky, decumbent yellowish or yellowish-cinereous pubescence, which is transversely or obliquely 

 combed inwards on the inner half of each elytron. Head densely, rugulosely punctured, feebly excavate 

 in front, the vertex canaliculate, the eyes moderately prominent, rather small ; antennae with the rami 

 on the third and following joints very elongate. Prothorax transverse, a little dilated behind, rapidly 

 narrowing forwards, the sides more or less sinuous ; the surface densely, rugulosely punctate, shallowly 

 canaliculate, the channel sometimes widening at the base, and usually with a deep fovea on either side of 

 the disc about the middle, these foveas sometimes shallow or indistinct. Elytra very elongate, subparallel 

 to beyond the middle ; each with four fine costse, the exterior one sometimes indistinct or visible towards 

 the apex only, and connected behind with the third, or the second and third, the second sometimes 

 extending to the suture behind ; the intervals between the costae closely, coarsely, confusedly punctate, 

 with the interspaces rugulose. Beneath thickly punctured. Legs rather elongate, the intermediate tibiae 

 slightly curved ; the femora with a dense fringe of hairs beneath. 



Length 9|~14|, breadth 2-4| millim. 



$ . Larger, broader, and less parallel : black, the antennae, the two basal joints excepted, and the basal margin 

 of the prothorax sometimes brownish ; glabrous above and very sparsely pubescent beneath ; the antennae 

 strongly pectinate from the third joint ; the elytra flattened on the disc, widest beyond the middle, slightly 

 shining, and more coarsely and more rugosely punctured ; the under surface much more sparsely punc- 

 tured ; the femora with a few hairs only beneath. 



Length 14-23, breadth 4|-5| millim. 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Orizaba, Juquila (Salle), Omilteme and Amula in Guerrero 6000 to 

 8000 feet (H. H. Smith), Misantla and Jalapa (Edge) ; Nicaragua. Chontales (Belt). 



This is the only Mexican Callirrhipis that can be referred to C. vestita, Laporte, 

 agreeing as it does in the general shape and pubescence of the males, and notwith- 

 standing certain discrepancies between our specimens and the description as regards the 

 form and sculpture of the thorax, &c, there can be little doubt that the identification 

 is correct. 



Fourteen males and five females are before me, including a male and two females 

 from Orizaba, indicated by Salle as belonging to the same species. The three specimens 

 from Guerrero are females, and the one from Chontales is a male ; one of the former, 

 from Amula, has the third and following antennal joints much stouter than usual, and 

 it may prove to belong to another species. The two fovea? on the thorax are not 

 always distinct. The comparatively dense pubescence and the long and narrow shape 

 of the males chiefly distinguish this species from the allied forms. A male from 

 Juquila and a female from Omilteme are figured. 



