UROPLATA. 93 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
A. Vertex and front impressed with from two to five deep longitudinal grooves. 
a. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle.—explanata, rodriguezi, fairmairet. 
oo. Apices of the elytra entire.—vitiatipennis, salleiv 
b. Elytra each with eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle.—distincta. ~: 
oo. Apices of the elytra entire.—chevrolati, candezei, melanurd, beata. 
c. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra rounded at the apex, emarginate at the sutural angle ; apical margin spinous. 
—bellicosa. 
oo. Posterior angle of the elytron laterally produced.—aterrima. ~ 
B. Vertex and front plane, often impressed on, the medial line with a shallow longitudinal groove ; 
anterior surface of the front in some species finely carinate. 
a. Elytra each with eight rows of punctures; posterior angle not laterally produced. 
o. Elytra more or less distinctly emarginate at the sutural angle.—championi, con- 
sociata, fulvescens, emorsitans, dimidiata, elegantula, aberrans. 
oo. Apex of each elytron rounded, entire.—decepta. 
ooo. Apices of the elytra. conjointly rounded, entire.—clypeata, limbata, belti. 
b. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally produced. 
o. Humeral callus strongly elevate-cristate.—elevata, buqueti, centromaculata. 
oo. Humeral callus not elevate-cristate.—hematopyga. 
c. Elytra each at the extreme base with nine, before the middle with eight, and on the 
hinder disc with nine or ten, rows of punctures ; posterior angle laterally produced. — 
fulvopicia. 
d. Elytra each with ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. 
o. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced; apical margin more or less strongly 
spinose.—pascoei, armata, distinguenda. 
oo. Posterior angle of the elytron not produced ; apical margin finely serrate or serru- 
late.—excisa, westwoodi. 
000. Posterior angle of the elytron produced laterally into a more or less acute triangular 
_ plate.—fulvopustulata, armigera, variegata, nebulosa, dolorosa, melancholica. 
A. Vertex and front impressed with from two to five deep longitudinal grooves. 
| a. Elytra each with eight regular rows of punctures. 
o. Elytra emarginate at the sutural angle. 
1. Uroplata explanata. (Tab. IV. fig. 6.) 
Elongata, postice ampliata ; subtus nitida, supra subnitida, nigra ; antennis compressis, articulis intermediis 
cristatis; clypeo lamina transversa bifida armato ; fhorace subconico, lateribus breviter bisinuatis, 
transversim convexo, pone medium depresso, crebre punctato, utrinque vitta sublaterali bicallosa im- 
punctata fulva; elytris ad apicem ampliatis, distincte, apicem versus fortius, serrulatis, margine apicali 
dilatato, ad suturam late quadratim emarginato; utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatio secundo 
valde costato. 
Long. 3-34 lin. 
Var. A. Elytris fulvis, plaga communi subtrigona, a basi fere ad medium extensa, linea submarginali infra 
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