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minute punctures, the clypeus also extremely finely punctured, but more shining; antenne with the basal 
six joints fulvous, the others black ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the anterior angles 
thickened and slightly oblique, the surface very closely and finely punctured, the interspaces minutely 
granulate ; elytra slightly depressed near the suturé, deeply striate, the punctures within the strise very 
closely placed and sometimes obsolete, the interstices strongly costate. 
Hab. Muxico, Guanajuato (Sallé). 
The thorax in this species is not at all narrowed in front, but of even width; this 
character in connection with the costate elytra will help to distinguish C. costati- 
pennis. 
18. Chetocnema parcepunctata. 
Chetocnema parcepunctata, Crotch, Proc. Ac. Phil. 1873, p. 74°; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 
1889, p. 265° 
Hab. Norra America, Lake Superior! to Florida? and Texas 2.—Mzexico, near the 
city (H. H. Smith). 
_ Dr. Horn’s description of this species agrees well with some specimens from the 
neighbourhood of Mexico city. The impunctate head, the finely, sparingly punctured, 
alutaceous thorax, which is twice as broad as long, and the deeply punctured elytra, 
with impunctate interstices, are the principal structural characters of C. parcepunctata. 
ASPHERA (p. 899). 
Asphera abdominalis (p. 400). 
Homopheta abdominalis, Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 197%. 
To the localities given, add:—Norta America, Texas !.—Mexico, Cuernavaca in 
Morelos, Xautipa in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), Tula in Hidalgo, Tacambaro in Micho- 
acan (Hége). 
HOMOPH@TA (p. 405). 
Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 196) sinks the name Asphera as a synonym 
of this genus, and perhaps rightly so; there is, however, always the distinguishing 
character of the white frontal patch present in Homopheta (unless the entire head is 
pale, as in some species), which I have never observed in Asphewra. For the present I 
prefer to retain the two genera as distinct, Homopheta possessing but few, Asphera a 
great many, species. I may here remark that the name Asphera is five years older 
than Homopheta, and that if they are put together the first-mentioned name should be 
retained. 
-Homopheta recticollis (p. 405). 
To the localities given, add:—Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco 
(H. H. Smith), Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége). 
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