12 | PHYTOPHAGA. 
smooth and shining, very finely and remotely punctured. Elytra broader than the 
thorax, obtusely rounded at the apex; disc smooth and shining, very finely punctate- 
striate. | 
Very similar in form to C. erichsoni, somewhat smaller, the third joint of the 
antenne in the male cylindrical. 
9. Cephaloleia sallwi. (Tab. I. fig. 16.) 
Cephaloleia sallei, Baly, Cat. Hispide, p. 45°. % 
Hab. Mxxico, Santecomapam, Cordova (coll. Sallé); GuatemaLa, Chacoj, Panima 
in Vera Paz (Champion).—Cotoms1a, Bogoté (coll. Brit. Mus. and Baly). 
The specimens from Guatemala and Mexico differ from the Colombian ones in 
having the pygidium in the female entire or only very faintly sinuate on one or the 
other side; in the male, on the contrary, the same segment is sometimes obsoletely 
sinuate in the medial line ; the transverse impression at the base of the thorax is also 
occasionally absent, and the antennee are sometimes entirely black ; in all other respects 
they agree with the typical form. 
10. Cephaloleia puncticollis. 
Sat elongata, fulva, nitida ; antennis nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi fere ad apicem rectis, parallelis ; 
disco sat fortiter punctato; elytris subelongatis, fere parallelis, apice obtuse rotundatis, regulariter 
punctato-striatis, punctis piceo tinctis. 
Mas. Abdominis segmento anali concavo-emarginato, medio sinuato. 
Fem, Abdominis segmento anali late sed leviter emarginato. 
Var. A. Antennis basi falvis. 
Long. 23 lin. yer S* 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica, Cache (Rogers) ; Panama, Volcan 
de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet, _Bugaba (Champion). 
Antenne filiform, rather more than half the length of the body, black; joints 
cylindrical, the basal one slightly thickened, very slightly compressed, longer than the 
second, the latter oblong. Vertex and front distinctly punctured. Thorax one third 
broader than long ; sides straight and parallel from the base nearly to the apex, then 
rounded and converging to the anterior angle, the latter obtuse; hinder angle slightly 
produced, very acute; disc transversely convex, impressed (but not very closely) with 
large round punctures. Llytra rather broader than the thorax, parallel, very slightly 
dilated below the middle, convex, flattened along the suture, rather strongly and 
regularly punctate-striate, the punctures more or less stained with piceous. 
Very closely allied to C. proxima, and possibly only a local form of that species, 
separated by the narrow thorax and by the rather more parallel form. 
11. Cephaloleia congener. 
Sat elongata, sordide rufo-fulva, nitida; antennis oylindricis, nigris ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi ad 
ultra medium rectis, leviter divergentibus, hinc ad apicem rotundato-angustatis; disco remote punctato ; 
elytris anguste oblongo-ovatis, regulariter punctato-striatis. 
