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moderately costate; green, the basal limb narrowly, the outer one broadly, flavous; the 
latter with some irregular markings together with a narrow subapical fascia, black. 
24. Chalepus productus. 
Subcuneiformis, subdepressus, nitidus, subtus piceus ; pedibus (tarsis exceptis) thoraceque flavis; supra pallide 
flavus, capite levi, vertice antennisque nigro-piceis; thorace subcylindrico, pone medium transversim 
excavato, crebre punctato, utrinque prope basin piceo notato; elytris oblongis, postice vix ampliatis, apice 
obtusis, utrinque sinuatis, angulo postico paullo lateraliter producto, obtuso; margine laterali distincte, 
_apicali obsolete, serrulatis; utrisque decem- prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, 
quarto, sexto (basi et apice) octavoque (hoc minus distincte) costatis, sutura (basi excepta) elevata ; 
nigro-piceis, apice maculisque flavis. 
Long. 2 lin. 
Hab. Guatemata, Panajachel 5000 feet (Champion). 
Head smooth, impunctate ; face very slightly produced between the eyes. Antenne 
rather longer than the head and thorax, robust ; joints cylindrical, gradually increasing 
in thickness from the sixth to the apical one. Thorax transverse ; sides slightly rounded, 
nearly straight and parallel from the base to the middle, thence slightly rounded and 
converging towards the apex, apical angle armed with a short, oblique, subacute tooth ; 
above subcylindrical, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely and closely 
punctured ; either extremity of the transverse depression with a small piceous spot, 
the lateral margin narrowly edged with pale piceous. Elytra much broader than the 
thorax, oblong; sides parallel anteriorly, very slightly dilated towards the hinder angle, 
the latter slightly produced laterally, obtuse ; apex slightly sinuate on either side near 
the outer angle; lateral margin distinctly, the apical one minutely and much less 
distinctly, serrulate ; each elytron with ten, on the anterior disc with nine, rows of large 
deep punctures; the second, fourth, sixth (the last broadly interrupted in the middle), 
together with the eighth interspaces costate, the eighth less strongly elevated than the 
rest, the suture (its extreme base excepted) also costate. 
25. Chalepus californicus. 
Odontota californica, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 297’. 
Anguste oblongus, modice convexus, nitidus ; subtus nigro-piceus, pedibus fulvis, tarsis piceis ; supra pallide 
rubiginosus, antennis piceo-nigris aut nigris ; thorace crebre punctato, lateribus piceo marginatis ; elytris 
oblongis, hic illic piceo tinctis ; utrisque decem- prope medium nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo, 
quarto, octavo (hoc basi excepta) nec non sexto basi et apice, costatis, sutura elevata. 
Var. A. Elytrorum maculis piceis obsoletis. 
Long. 13-2 lin. 
Hab. Norta America, California, Arizona! (Horn).—Mexico, Northern Sonora 
(Morrison). - 
Head smooth, opaque ; face between the eyes obsoletely produced ; front and upper 
face impressed with a deep longitudinal groove. Antenne equal in length to the head 
and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex, joints cylindrical ; eyes black. Thorax 
