104 PHYTOPHAGA. 
slightly constricted at the sides, rounded at the apex; lateral margin finely, the apical 
one more strongly and irregularly, serrulate, slightly notched at the sutural angle ; 
each elytron with eight rows of large, deeply impressed punctures, the eighth row 
obsolete in the middle part of its course; the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces. 
strongly costate. 
19. Uroplata aberrans. 
Uroplata aberrans, Chapuis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xx. p. 25 (1877). 
Elongata, subdepressa, nigra; subtus nitida, prosterni medio abdomineque fulvis, femoribus anticis quatuor 
basi, flavis ; supra subopaca, vertice fronteque levibus, hac tenuiter carinata ; antennis ad corporis dimidium 
eequilongis, articulis intermediis compressis, cristatis ; thorace transverso, lateribus a basi apicem versus. 
convergentibus ; dorso transversim convexo, pone medium transversim excavato, crebre rugoso-punctato ; 
utringue vitta sublaterali, punctata, obsolete torulosa ; fulvo, lateribus vittaque lata discoidali, ante apicem. 
abbreviata, nigris ; elytris anguste elongato-ovalis, apice subacute rotundatis, ad suturam emarginatis ; 
minute serrulatis, utrisque octo-seriato-punctatis, interspatiis secundo et sexto costatis, quarto basi et’ 
apice minus distincte elevato; nigris, macula parva basali fulva ornatis. 
Mas. Clypeo in laminam transversam ampliato, apice levi, margine superiori bilobato. 
Fem. Clypeo cuneiformi, apice paullo producto, subtuberculato. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Cordova (Hoge, Sallé).—CoLomBIA. 
Vertex and front smooth, the latter finely carinate; interocular space moderately 
produced. Antenne about half the length of the body, slender; two lower joints short, 
neatly equal in length, subcylindrical, the third to the sixth compressed, moderately | 
dilatad, cristate, the third equal in length to the preceding two united; club slender, 
subfiliform ; clypeus in the male produced and dilated into a broad, smooth bilobate- 
plate, the outer edges of which extend on either side over the inner border of the eye. 
Thorax nearly one half broader than long ; sides converging from the base towards the 
middle, very slightly rounded ; upper surface transversely convex, transversely excavated 
on the hinder disc; closely rugose-punctate, a subtorulose vitta on either side, just . 
within the lateral margin, rather less closely punctured than the rest of the surface. . 
Elytra very narrowly ovate, subacutely rounded at the apex, subquadrate-emarginate 
at the sutural angle; outer margin minutely serrulate, narrowly dilated on the sides, 
more distinctly so at the apex; each elytron with eight regular rows of large, trans- 
versely oblong punctures; the second and sixth interspaces costate, the fourth slightly 
elevated at the base and apex. 
oo. Apex of each elytron rounded, entire. 
20. Uroplata decepta. 
Elongata, fere parallela; subtus nigra, nitida, pectoris medio femoribusque basi flavis ; supra subopaca, fulva; 
antennis, capitis macula verticali, thoracis vitta discoidali lateribusque angustis, scutello elytrorumque: 
linea suturali, a basi ad medium extensa, nigris; thorace transverso, lateribus pone medium fere parallelis, 
hine apicem versus convergeutibus; dorso rugoso-punctato, medio tenuiter, longitudinaliter sulcato,. 
