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The single female specimen received differs too much from any of its allies of Suffrian’s 
eleventh group, with angulate fifth row of punctures, to identify it with either of these. 
C. forreri is a large and robust species, which may be known by the finely and rugosely 
punctured thorax and the other details mentioned above. When viewed without a lens, 
the elytra seem to have about eight small brown spots, caused by the deeper coloured 
interior of the punctures, the latter uniting here and there. 
Cryptocephalus insolidus (p. 48). 
To the locality given, add :—GuateMaLa, Calderas (Champion). 
No specimen from Mexico has come under my observation; the one obtained by 
Mr. Champion in Guatemala agrees sufficiently well with Suffrian’s description of 
C. insolidus to be identified with it. 
Cryptocephalus maculipennis (p. 48). 
To the Mexican localities given, add:—Durango city, Iguala and Amula in Guerrero, 
Tupataro in Guanajuato, Yautepec in Morelos (Hoge). 
As already remarked when speaking of C. abruptus (Suppl., p. 99), there seems but 
little to distinguish C. maculipennis from that species. The elytra in the present 
insect are also punctured in pairs (not mentioned by Suffrian); and, instead of the 
three black bands, have three rows of short brown longitudinal spots placed between 
the punctures, if counted longitudinally or transversely. 
23 (a). Cryptocephalus subcurvatus, (Tab. XX XVII. fig. 16.) 
Fulvous ; thorax impunctate, the margins and two spots near the base obscure flavous ; elytra strongly 
punctate-striate, the eighth row joined to the sixth anteriorly, flavous, a spot at the shoulders, another at 
the apex, a semilunate band at the base, and a transverse band below the middle, black. 
Length 2-23 lines. 
Head punctured on the vertex, the latter of a darker brown tint than the lower portion of the face; labrum 
piceous ; antenn black, the three or four basal joints fulvous ; thorax subcylindrical, narrowed in front, 
entirely impunctate, with an obsolete oblique depression on each side, fulvous, the margins (the anterior 
one narrowly) and two oblique spots near the base flavous ; scutellum black; elytra rather regularly and 
deeply punctate-striate, the sixth row abbreviated before the middle and joined by a transverse row of 
punctures to the eighth, the seventh and eighth rows also only visible just below the shoulder, the third 
and fourth and the fifth and eighth rows united at the apex, the surface flavous with the following black 
markings—a semilunate band at the base, the ends of which extend to the fourth row of punctures and 
upwards to the basal margin, a slightly oblique band below the middle, dentate in the centre and a little 
widened at the suture, and a small spot on the shoulder and a larger one at the junction of the united 
strice at the apex ; the underside and legs dark fulvous. 
Hab. Mexico, Ventanas in Durango (Hége). 
The curved elytral band surrounding the scutellum principally separates C. subcurvatus 
fromiits allies. The interrupted strie form in some specimens a smooth transverse 
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