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nearly similar but less free from punctures apically, the lateral to- 

 mentose line rather broader; scutellum larger and longer, more than 

 a fourth as long as the elytra, perfectly smooth; elytra much broader, 

 less than a fourth longer than wide, the costs and general sculpture 

 similar, the latter still rather sparser, the double lines less even and 

 tending to disintegrate, the outer one ending in confused punctures 

 basally in much the same way; lateral and apical lines of tomentum 

 almost similar, the pygidium also nearly similar; abdomen with the 

 transverse areas of tomentum more developed, separated internally 

 by a much narrower glabrous line along the middle of the abdominal 

 surface; tarsi longer. Length (cf) 12.0 mm.; width 7.3 mm. Guate- 

 mala *solidula n. sp. 



7 Body oblong, stout, the elytra very slightly cuneiform, more distinctly 

 in the male, shining, black, the pronotum rufous, with a broad black 

 median vitta, the elytra each with an obliquely oval discal red spot 

 just before the middle, the flanks throughout, except in less than 

 basal third, having close-set transverse lines of tomentum, the median 

 of which is much prolonged within, almost attaining the suture, its 

 inner part subdetached and angulate; apex with a large spot of 

 tomentum attaining the inner and apical margins and usually having 

 a small nude spot equidistant from suture and apex; abdominal 

 segments each broadly tomentose latero-basally and with a tuft of 

 very coarse hairs at each side; sterna coarsely but not densely 

 pubescent laterally; upper surface having very short sparse erect 

 , hairs, those on the elytra distinct by oblique light; head coarsely, 

 densely punctate, with a transverse confused line of short coarse 

 hairs at base, the clypeus less deeply sculptured and biobliquely 

 rugulose, broadly parabolic; the broad and feeble apical lobes are 

 each peculiarly tumid and subreflexed; prothorax a third wider than 

 long, trapezoidal, with almost evenly arcuate sides, the punctures 

 coarse, deep and dense, becoming less coarse and sparser medially, 

 almost wanting medio-basally, each having a small erect hair; scutel- 

 lum large, triangular, smooth; elytra fully a fourth longer than wide, 

 the costae almost obsolete, rather more evident toward the subapical 

 umbo; punctures shallow, everywhere sparse and confused, with a 

 regular sutural series; pygidium strongly, concentrically strigose, 

 largely covered with tomentum and having distinct sparse erect 

 hairs; teeth of the anterior tibiae sharp, the two lower more approxi- 

 mate, spiniform and deflexed. Length (9) 16.2 mm.; width 9.5 

 mm. Mexico (central). [Cetonia biguttata G. & P.] 



*biguttata G. & P. 



A Similar to biguttata in every way, except that the transverse lines 

 of tomentum at the sides of the elytra do not extend to the apical 

 solid tomentose area, but leave between that and the posterior of 

 the lines a vacant space, equaling a fourth the total length of the 

 elytra; solid apical spot not quite so large and more annuliform, 

 enclosing a large black spot; hairs of the elytra not half as large, 

 minute and discoverable only with care; clypeus not quite so 

 broad, the very feeble apical lobes not so incrassate; thoracic 

 punctures not quite so close-set, broadly sparse medio-basally; 



