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ened both upwards and downwards; the punctures on this fascia are individually 
distinct. The fascia before the apex is as in C. salvini; the suture between the two 
fascize is usually of the same colour as the base; the fasciee themselves are whitish or 
creamy yellow. | 
25. Clerus salvini. 
Clerus Salvini, Gorh. Cist. Ent. 1876, p. 78°. 
Hab. Guatemaua}, near the city (Salvin, coll. Gorh.), Duefias, San Gerénimo, Cerro 
Zunil, Las Mercedes (Champion); Costa Rica (Van Patten). 
This species is abundantly distinct from C. decussatus. The first fascia is placed 
nearer the apex of the elytra, and is not so strongly recurved at the suture. ‘The entire 
basal half of the elytra is red, in which respect C. salvini resembles C. opifex; but it is 
not shining, being coarsely yet hardly confluently punctured. Three lines are indicated 
on each elytron, in the interstices of the punctures. The first fascia is very narrowly 
bordered with black on the basal side. 
I have seen a very few examples in which the thorax is reddish. A large number of 
this insect were found by Champion at Duefas and San Geronimo. 
26. Clerus opifex. (Tab. VIII. fig. 3.) 
Clerus ocellatus (Dugés, coll. Sallé). 
Niger, nitidus; thorace brevi; elytris lete rubidis, macula subapicali rotundata nigra, antice per fasciam 
pallidam arcuatam cincta, apice cinereo-pubescente, fascia subapicali alba, brevi, haud distincta. Long. 
53-8 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato (Dugés, coll. Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hége); GUATEMALA, 
San Gerénimo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 
Head and thorax densely clothed with erect pile; that on the head and front of the 
thorax greyish, but that on the central portion is black. Elytra shining, thickly and 
irregularly punctured, the punctures somewhat disposed to form rows. ‘The first fascia 
is only represented by a paler arcuate band, which margins the roundish black spot, 
and is nearer the apex than the fascia in C. salvini. The apex itself is clothed rather 
thickly with grey depressed hairs, which hide the short pale oblique band which is still 
present, and is disposed in such a manner as often to make the black portion appear 
annulated. The specimen named C. ocellatus in Sallé’s collection is a small one thus 
marked; but in others the two black marks are joined at the suture. The legs are 
black, densely clothed with grey hairs. 
I do not adopt Dugés’s name for this species, because C. oculatus, Spin., applies to 
C. rosmarus, Say, a somewhat similarly marked but quite distinct species. A con- 
siderable series were taken by Hoge, about six by Champion at San Gerdnimo, and one 
by Belt at Chontales. 
The specimen figured is one from Cerro de Plumas. 
