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68 PHYTOPHAGA. 
medio nono-seriato-punctatis ; interspatiis secundo et quarto squaliter, octavo minus distincte, costatis ; 
vitta suturali lata, postice angustata, apiceque late, nigris. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba, David, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 4000 feet (Champion). 
Vertex smooth, impunctate; front deeply impressed with a longitudinal groove; 
interocular space strongly produced, obtuse. Antenne less than half the length of the 
body, moderately robust, slightly thickened towards the apex; joints cylindrical. Thorax 
transverse ; sides slightly but distinctly angulate, converging from base to apex, more 
quickly converging before the middle ; disc transversely convex, excavated transversely 
behind the middle, coarsely and closely punctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, 
parallel, rounded at the apex; lateral margin obsoletely, the apical one distinctly, 
serrulate ; each elytron with ten, just before the middle with nine, rows of punctures ; 
the second and fourth interspaces costate, the eighth less distinctly elevated. 
34. Chalepus bellulus. (Tab. III. fig. 15.) 
Odontota bellula, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1877, p. 11. 
Elongatus, parallelus, rufo-fulvus, nitidus; capite pedibusque nigris, his basi fulvis; thorace transverso, sub- 
-  conico, rude foveolato-punctato ; elytris parallelis, medio leviter coarctatis, apice rotundatis, margine 
serrulatis ; utrisque tricostatis, decem-seriato-punctatis, seriebus 7° et 8* medio interruptis; nigro- 
-eyaneis, vitta lata discoidali, prope suturam posita, a basi ad pone medium extensa, fulva, ornatis; abdo- 
minis segmento ultimo plus minusve nigrescente. , 
Var. A. ‘Hlytris nigro-cyaneis, macula basali parva irregulari fulva. (Odontota tricolor, Chapuis, l. c. p. 11.) 
Long. 3'Jin. 
Hab. ‘GUATEMALA, San Gerénimo, El Reposo 800 feet (Champion); NicaRaaua, 
Chontales (Belt). © neSso0 A Te Re lee y Wave 1905 DEZ Ip 133) 
Head smooth, impunctate; vertex and front impressed in the medial line with a 
deep longitudinal groove; front produced between the eyes into a conical process. 
Antenne half the length of the body, robust, filiform, slightly thickened towards the 
apex ; first and second joints short, equal, the basal one slightly incrassate, the third 
obconic, one third longer than the second. Thorax broader than long; sides obtusely 
angulate-subrotundate, nearly parallel from the base to the middle, thence obliquely 
converging to the apex; anterior angle armed with a very short subacute tooth; upper 
surface subcylindrical, broadly excavated transversely on the hinder disc, coarsely and 
deeply foveolate-punctate ; medial line with an ill-defined shallow longitudinal groove. 
Elytra subelongate, parallel, slightly constricted on the sides, the concavity extending 
from the shoulder to the posterior angle ; outer margin serrulate, apex rounded, rather 
more strongly serrulate than the sides; each elytron with ten rows of deep punctures, 
the ninth and tenth irregular, and the seventh and eighth entirely obsolete in their 
middle third; second, fourth, and eighth interspaces strongly costate, the suture also 
thickened ; nigro-zneous, a broad vitta on the inner disc, confluent at the base with its 
fellow on the opposite elytron, and extending from the basal margin to below the 
middle of the elytron, fulvous. 
