46 PHYTOPHAGA. 
Hab. Guaremata (type in coll. Baly ex coll. Laferté); Panama, David, Taboga Island 
(Champion).—CotomBsta !. 
3. Charistena trilineata. 
Charistena trilineata, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 255 '. 
Hab. Mexico ! (types in coll. Chevr. and Baly). 
4. Charistena pilatei. 
Charistena pilatet, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864, p. 254°. 
Hab. Muxtco, Teapa! (coll. Baly, type); Guatemata, Chiacam in Vera Paz 
(Champion). 
5. Charistena championi. 
Angustata, subcylindrica; subtus cum capite nigra, pedibus flavis, antennis basi tarsisque pallide-piceis; supra 
flava, scutello nigro; thorace subcylindrico, profunde et crebre punctato, lateribus plaga margineque apicali 
nigris; elytris parallelis, apice rotundatis, minute serrulatis ; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis 
secundo, quarto sextoque, nec non sutura, modice costatis ; maculis communibus duabus, una ad basin 
altera vix ante apicem positis, vittaque brevi submarginali baseos, nigris, eneo tinctis. 
Var. A. Elytrorum macula subapicali obsoleta. 
Long. 13 lin. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Zapote, Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Head tinged with eneous; vertex and front impressed with a number of longitudinal 
grooves. Antenne slightly longer than the head and thorax, robust, thickened towards 
the apex; joints cylindrical, the five upper ones forming an ill-defined elongate club; six 
lower joints rufo-piceous, the rest black. Thorax subcylindrical, rather broader than 
long; sides. obtusely angulate, straight and parallel behind the middle, obliquely con- 
verging anteriorly; upper surface deeply and closely punctured; a patch on the lateral 
margin, together with the extreme apex, black. Elytra parallel, regularly rounded at the 
apex, faintly sinuate at the sutural angle, distinctly serrulate; each elytron with eight, 
at the extreme base with nine, rows of large deep punctures ; the second, fourth, and 
sixth interspaces moderately costate, the suture also thickened. 
6. Charistena funesta. 
Angustata, subcylindrica, nigra, nitida, dorso eneo tincta ; thorace profunde foveolato-punctato, disco anteriori 
fere impunctato ; elytris parallelis, tricostatis, interspatiis profunde biseriato-punctatis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (Sallé); Guatema.a, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Head very finely granulose, front impressed between the eyes with a faint elongate 
fovea. Antenne equal in length to the head and thorax ; five terminal joints thickened, 
forming a narrow elongate club. Thorax longer than broad ; sides parallel, very slightly 
angulate ; subcylindrical, excavated at the base just in front of the scutellum,. 
