and of uncharacterized species of Halticince. 301 



elytris sat crebre, fortiter punctatis, pone medium obsolete 



elevato-vittatis. 



. Long. 1^ lin. Hab, — Bombay; collected by Dr. E. 



Downes. 



Head smootli ; vertex nearly impunctate, faintly rugu- 

 lose, front above the encarp^e riigose-piinctate ; encarpte 

 quadrangular, contiguous ; carina strongly raised, linear; 

 antennse more than two-thirds the length of the body; 

 three loAver joints piceous, stained Avith nigro-£eneous ; 

 second and third joints short, equal. Thorax nearly 

 tAvice as broad as long ; sides nearly parallel at the base, 

 thence rounded and couA^erging to the apex, anterior 

 angles thickened, obliquely truncate ; upper surface 

 granulose, rather closely covered Avith round, shalloAv 

 punctures. Scutellum shining black, trigonate, its apex 

 obtuse. Elytra narroAvly ovate, more deeply punctured 

 than the thorax, interspaces granulose ; beloAv the middle 

 of each elytron are several narrow, distinctly raised vitta?. 

 Body beneath shining black, smooth, nearly impunctate. 



Genus Ch^tocnema, Stephens. 

 ChcRtocnema divergens. 



Anguste ovata, convexa, nitida, subtus nigra, pedibus 

 rufo-piceis, femoribus posticis nigro-aaneis ; supra nigro- 

 aenea, antennis ftilvis, articulo ultimo piceo ; thoracelateribus 

 rectis, a basi ad apicem paullo divergentibus, disco granu- 

 lose, remote, sat tenuiter punctato; elytris fortiter punctato- 

 striatis, interspatiis convexiusculis, ad apicem et iis ad 

 latera convexis. 



Long. I lin. Hab. — Campeche. 



Head moderately exserted, trigonate ; A^ertex and front 

 gi-anulose, impressed on either side A\dth a fcAV irregular 

 punctures; oblique grooves separating the interocular 

 spaces from the front distinct ; clypeus oblique on its loAA'er 

 half, thickened towards its apex, the latter broadly tiimcate, 

 separated from the upper fixce by a deep transverse depres- 

 sion ; labrum piceous, impressed Avith a single roAv of deep 

 ])\uictures ; antcnnre more than half the length of the body, 

 fuh'ous, the apical joint piceous ; second joint moderately 

 thickened, nearly as long as the first, distinctly longer 

 than the third. Thorax nearly tAA'ice as broad as long ; 

 sides rather broadly margined, sti'Jiight and diverging 

 fi'om base to apex, the anterior angles oblique, thickened, 



