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cannot very well be classified amongst any of Suffrian's North- American groups, but 

 should form a special division. 



29. Cryptocephalus quatuordecimpustulatus. (Tab. III. fig. 7.) 



Cryptocephalus li-pustulatus, Suffr. Monogr. vii. p. 41 \ 



Cryptocephalus tesseratus, Chevr. Col. Mex. cent. i. 1834, fasc. iv. no. 85; Sturm, Cat. p. 302. 



Yellowish brown ; thorax impunctate ; elytra finely punctate-striate, with a transverse depression below the 



shoulder, the light colour divided by brown bands into eight large spots (3, 2, 2, 1). 

 Length 2-2| lines. 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Tuxtla, Cordova, Santecomapan, Playa Vicente (SalU); Guatemala, 

 near the city (Salvin), Capetillo (Champion). 



This species is contained in most collections, and has been sent by Mr. Champion in 

 great numbers ; the depth of the punctuation varies a good deal, as do also the size of 

 the spots of the elytra. The figure is drawn from a specimen from Capetillo. 



30. Cryptocephalus championi. (Tab. III. fig. 13.) 



Elongate, parallel, rufous ; thorax finely punctured, the margins and two oblique basal spots flavous ; elytra 

 regularly geminate-punctate-striate, the interstices alternately more or less broadly flavous. 



Length 2-2| lines. 



Head with a central space of deep punctures, this space brown, rest bright flavous ; antennae more than two 

 thirds the length of the body in the male, black, the underside of the first two or three joints fulvous ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, distinctly narrowed in front, its posterior margin nearly straight, posterior 

 angles produced backwards, surface more or less distinctly punctured, bright rufous, the anterior margin 

 narrowly, the lateral one broadly light yellow and nearly divided by a narrow protruding point of the 

 ground-colour into two spots, two more like-coloured round spots are placed at each side at the base; 

 scutellum black, with a small basal fovea; elytra nearly parallel, very regularly, closely, and deeply 

 geminate-punctate-striate, the first (subsutural) row abbreviated at a little distance from the apex, the 

 second row connected with the ninth posteriorly, the same being the case with the next three pairs of 

 strias, of which the middle one, however, is much shorter than the others ; the space between the 

 punctures distinctly transversely wrinkled, the interstices smooth and costate near the lateral margin, the 

 latter broadly, base and apex narrowly yellowish white ; two other very narrow longitudinal vittse of the 

 same colour are placed between the first and second and third and fourth striae ; indications of others are 

 more or less distinct in some specimens. If the light colour of the elytra were assumed as the ground-colour, 

 there would be a sutural common brown band narrowed at the apex, another narrower one and sub- 

 suttxral, and a broad band on the disk. Underside and legs brown or piceous, base of the latter lighter ; 

 the abdomen mottled with flavous to a greater or smaller degree, prosternum and breast of the same 

 colour; posterior thighs in the male extending to the end of the elytra. 



Hab. Guatemala, near the city (Salvin), Capetillo (Champion). 



I know of no species with which the present one can be confounded, the elytral 

 striee being perfectly regular without interruption, and at the same time deeply and 

 closely impressed. The specimen figured is from Capetillo. 



31. Cryptocephalus ocellatus. 



Cryptocephalus ocellatus, Suffr. Monogr. vii. p. 43 '. 

 Cryptocephalus subtilis, Harold, Col. Hefte, x. 1872, p. 254. 



Hab Mexico, Jalapa 1 ; Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 



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