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0. sticticopterus Champ. 1. c. p. 469, t. 21, f. 19. — Dark 

 brownish bronze, shining, somewhat thickly clothed with short 

 suberect ashy hairs. Head and prothorax sparsely and coarsely 

 pimctured; elytra subparallel towards the base, a little rounded 

 about the middle, somewhat closely and not very finely punctured, 

 the punctures coarser towards the base, marked thus : a broad 

 band before the middle (angulated on its lower edge outwardly) 

 extending obliquely upwards to the Shoulders, but not reaching 

 the lateral margin, and enclosing a common basal patch of the 

 ground-colour (in which at the base on either side of the scutellujn 

 is a testaceous spot), an angulated band behind the middle, nar- 

 rowing outwardly and not reaching {he lateral margin, and the 

 apex (rather broadly), testaceous; legs and antennae testaceous. 

 Length 5 — 5V2 Hab. Mexico, Jalapa. 



0. mexicanus G. Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. II. 1868, 

 p. 133; 1. c. V, 1875, p. 151. - Champ. Biol. Centr.-Am. Col. IV, 

 1, 1888, p. 469, t. 21, f. 14. 



Elongate, head and thorax aeneous, coarsely but not densely 

 punctured. Thorax subquadrate, bind angles distinct. Elytra elon- 



gate, oval, coarsely but not densely punctured, brownish 



r^ir~\ ornamented with paler bands and sparsely clothed with 

 ■I ^ J suberect whitish hairs. Body be- 

 ^^^^ neath paler, coarsely and sparsely 

 Wß^^ punctured. Legs and antennae 



yellowish. Length. . 19 inch. 



The elytral ornamentation is 



similar to fasciatus Bland and 



is as follows: an oval basal spot 



enclosing a small black spot near its 



apex, and at the basal margin of 

 the elytra, and an irregulär transverse band behind the middle, 

 very broad at the suture, narrowing rapidly and not extending 

 to the margin. - From Mexico. Collection of Dr. Le Conte. 



Differs from all our species in its elongate form, and being 

 more attenuate behind. The elytra are also much smoother and 

 scarcely punctured near the sides and apex. 



0. Kraatzi Reitt. Deutsche Ent. Zeit. XXIII, 1879, p. 226. — 

 Lewis, Ent. Monthly Mag. XXVII, 1891, p. 248; Ann. a. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (6) XV, 1895, p. 276. — Länge 4 -5 mm. ~ Breiter 

 als die verwandten Arten ; schwarzbraun, Hüften, Kniee, Schienen, 

 zuweilen auch die Schenkel , Füße , Taster und Fühlergeißel 

 heller, Vorderkörper und Schildchen dunkel erzfarbig, Flügel- 

 decken gelb, Basis sehr schmal, in ihrer Mitte ein ziemlich großer 

 Fleck, die Naht hinter dem Schildchen, 4 sehr zackige Binden und 

 ein großer Fleck nahe der Spitze dunkelbraun; Behaarung ge- 

 wöhnlich. Kopf gewöhnlich, grob und dicht punktiert, Oberlippe 

 vorn gerundet, Clypeus in der Mitte des Vorderrandes schwach 

 winklig vortretend, von der Stirn nicht abgesetzt, Stirn vorn jeder- 



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