CEPHALOLETIA. 9 
Hab. Muxico!, Cordova, Toxpam (type and vars. A and B) (coll. Sallé), Juquila (Hoge, 
var. A); GuaTEMALA, Cerro Zunil 4000 feet (Champion). 
The metropolis of the present species appears to be Mexico, a single specimen only 
having been sent from Guatemala by Mr. Champion. 
2. Cephaloleia championi. (Tab. I. fig. 11.) 
Hlongata, parallela, dorso subdepressa, flava, nitida; oculis, antennis extrorsum, articulo ultimo apice excepto, 
scutelloque nigris; thorace quam longo vix latiori; lateribus rectis, ad apicem abrupte convergentibus, 
angulo antico acuto; dorso sparse punctato, lateribus anguste nigro marginatis; scutello elongato, acuto ; 
elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, limbo exteriori vittaque lata suturali, hac vix pone medium ampliata, 
deinde ad apicem abrupte angustata, nigris. 
Mas. Antennarum articulis basalibus quatuor compressis, primo subclavato, sequentibus tribus trigonatis ; 
abdominis segmento anali leviter sinuato. 
Fem. Antennarum articulis cylindricis ; abdominis segmento anali obtuso. 
Long. 4 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Head smooth and shining, finely and remotely punctured. Antenne less than half 
the length of the body; basal joint thickened, twice the length of the second; the 
second, third, and fourth joints equal in length, compressed and trigonate in the 
male, the basal joint in the same sex subclavate; in the female the second to the 
fourth joints are cylindrical, the third being rather longer than either of the preceding ; 
the two to four lower joints, together with the apex of the eleventh, flavous. Thorax 
scarcely broader than long; sides straight and nearly parallel, rounded and converging 
at the extreme apex; anterior angles acute; upper surface very sparingly punctured ; 
extreme lateral margin narrowly edged with black or dark piceous. Scutellum penta- 
gonal, nearly twice as long as broad, its apex very acute. Elytra broader than the 
thorax, parallel, their apices rounded, conjointly sinuate at the sutural angle, the latter 
armed with a small acute tooth; upper surface smooth, finely punctate-striate. 
Nearly allied to C. whitei, distinguished by the narrower and more parallel form, 
together with the straighter sides and acute anterior angles of the thorax, the latter in 
C’. whitet being obtusely rounded ; the last segment of the abdomen in the male of the 
latter species (the only sex known to me) is more deeply sinuate. 
Taken in plenty by Mr. Champion in the rolled-up unopened leaves of Musacee in 
the virgin forest of the “ tierra caliente.” 
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8. Cephaloleia ornata. (Tab. I. fig. 12.) presee by Water FF 
Elongata, dorso subdepressa, nitida, subtus nigro-picea; thorace abdomineque fulvis, femoribus, apice exceptis, 
flavis; supra nigra, facie inferiori piceo-fulva; thorace fulvo, basi plagaque apicali trigonata, nigro-piceis ; 
elytris tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrinque vitta humerali, a basi fere ad medium extensa, postice ampliata, 
fasciaque lata subapicali, flavis. 
_ Long. 32 lin. 
Hab. Nicaraeva, Chontales (Belt). A single specimen. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. VI. Pt. 2, January 1885. bb 
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