I879 -J PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. ; 8 5 



the base, the space between them also obsoletely depressed • th P 



vour d S S C ut:ir 7 ' diStinCtlj bUt ; Vid ^ P™*^.™^ f - 

 vous Scutellum impunctate. Elytra wider than the thorax It 



aepiession below the base; each elytron with ten rows of deen 

 punctures, which diminish in depth' towards the apex? they are 

 of the same colour as the other parts, and have a black round soot 

 exactly at the end of the basilar depression, between the mar"in a^.d 

 the suture. Underside of a little deener tint twVi b aua 



The f 0Ur auteri , b]ack ijfjee e^ tmt „ t. e upper one. 



r ta M 7; Poste " 01 ; thigh, reaching beyond the apex of the 

 elytra; claws appendiculate ; posterior tibia with two distinct spurs 

 One specimen in my collection from Nicaragua. P 



of thP ft 008 ,?. 1 ? 1 " 1 ' S , ha P e of tbe P al Pi. as well as the organization 

 of the hinder tib.a, which are armed with two spurs flace S 

 insect m the genus Allochroma as defined by Claric white th ^ colo 

 ration will distinguish it from the other species of tntegenuT 



Galerucin^e. 

 Genus Ccelomera. 



23. COSLOMERA NIGRICOLLIS, Sp. nOV. 



Elongate, subparallel. Flavous ; head and thorax piceous or black 

 tllLZ ^^ dytra ^^ P Ur P lish -d, finely punctate and 



Length 6 lines. 



Hab. Mountain of Irazu, Costa Rica 



Head deeply foveolate in the middle, obsoletely punctured black • 

 clypeus flavous; antenna black, covered with yellowish Lain 

 Thorax deeply transversely depressed in the middle, with a few 

 other smaller depressions near the sides and base; surface covered 

 with minute punctures and thin yellowish hairs, piceous or black 

 the margins narrowly fulvous. Scutellum piceous. Elytra convex 

 widened from the middle to the apex, very closely and mhmlely 

 punctured, covered thinly with yellowish pubescence 7 of a 3 

 purple colour Underside flavous ; tibia and tarsi black. 



Nearly allied [to C .submet allien, Clark, but separated from that 

 species by the black thorax and the fine punctuation of the elytra 

 as well as by the almost entirely black head! I have more than ha fa 



"ToZ^T^l^t of which asree exactIy with each ^ 



24. Ccelomera godmani, sp. nov. 



Elongate, parallel. Flavous; head and thorax with two lame 



BriSKS punctate aDd pubescent - <—> *£ ft 



Length 6 lines. 



Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua. 



Head very minutely punctured, with an indistinct median and a 



