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forms an angle before the middle and is connected with the fifth row, above which a 
narrow transverse space is bounded by a similar transverse row of punctures connecting 
the commencement of the sixth and seventh rows. These last-mentioned characters 
are nearly the same as in C. patheticus; but in the present insect there are no black 
markings on the underside or on the pygidium, these parts in all the specimens being 
entirely fulvous. The elytral markings are better defined in some examples, the others 
having only a few darker spots in place of the bands; the interstices are apparently 
more convex in the male than in the female. Specimens of the last-mentioned sex 
from Iguala are twice the size of the males from Acapulco, and are of a bright flavous 
colour. <A single example from Guatemala is apparently referable to the same species. 
11 (8). Cryptocephalus testudineus. 
Flavous or fulvous; antenne as long as the body, black, the basal joints fulvous ; thorax impunctate, the sides 
and two obscure spots at the base yellowish; elytra with eight large flavous spots divided by narrow 
fulvous bands, the interstices more or less convex. , 
Length 14 line. 
Hab. Mexico, Oaxaca (Hége); GUATEMALA, near the city (Champion), Coban in Vera 
Paz (Conradt). | 
C. testudineus resembles in the pattern of the elytra C. 14-pustulatus, C. ocellatus, and 
several other species; but I cannot identify it with either of these, the antenne being 
very long and extending quite to the apex of the elytra. The head is entirely fulvous, 
and the space between the eyes on the vertex is somewhat rugosely punctured ; the 
antenne are black, with the basal four joints fulvous. ‘The thorax is entirely impunctate, 
strongly convex, and proportionately long; fulvous in colour, with the margins and the 
usual two basal spots very obscurely flavous. The elytra have each eight large flavous 
spots in the same position as the allied species (3.2.2.1), these spots, however, being 
divided by the rows of closely placed dark brown punctures into short longitudinal 
stripes; the eighth row is interrupted before the middle by two short transverse rows 
of punctures which enclose between them a raised and smooth space, a character 
common to many species of this genus; the interstices are also longitudinally raised ; 
and, moreover, there is a rather distinct transverse depression before the middle. The 
underside and legs are entirely flavous or fulvous. The four male specimens received 
do not vary from each other in any marked degree. The transversely raised smooth 
space at the sides of the elytra would place C. testudineus near C. patheticus and other 
species of Suffrian’s eleventh group, from all of which it differs in the long antenne 
and in the deep punctuation and interrupted flavous spots of the elytra. The brown 
colour of the elytral bands is much more intense in the specimen from Mexico. 
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