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yellow and spongiose beneath ; terminal nearly as long as the first, 
clavate, biunguiculate ; rufous, hairy, glossy. Claws divergent, incurved, 
each armed beneath in the middle with a thin tooth ; dark rufous, glossy, 
glabrous. 
Cbatopakis torquatus ( Chevr.), Jekel. 
Oblongo-ovatus, piceus,supra tomento dilute hrunneo fusco jlavoque mixto , 
infra dilution tectus ; antennis rufescentibus ; capite rostroque latius- 
culis; thorace subconico , antice rotundato producto , postice cum 
carina sinuato, angulis retrorsum argute acutis , antice linea media 
posterius prope medium disci transversim divaricata ornato ; elytris 
punctato-substriatis , interstitiis alternis convexis , fusco-jlavo aut 
albescenti tessellatis , interiori ante medium macula fusca majori 
ornato. 
Longit. (rostr. excl.) 3^—4 lin. = 7 T ^—9 millim. 
Latit. bas. thor.'et elytr. 1|—If lin. — 3 7 9 0 millim.; ante med. elytr. 
1^—If lin. = 3 t 5 0 —4-^ millim. 
Patria : Mexico, Dom. Dupont & Salle. 
This species closely resembles the Crat. thoracicus (Chevr.), Sch., of 
the same country, and also the Crat. lunatus, Fabr., of the United States 
but it is larger than the former, and proportionally much broader in 
all the parts of the body than both. 1 * Its general coloration is that of the 
latter, having the same tessellations and the black ante-median spot of the 
elytra; but the head, rostrum and sides of the thorax are destitute of 
the lighter tomentum observed on that species and on the former. 
Head and rostrum rather wide, as in Crat. lunatus, much wider than 
in Crat. thoracicus , 3 only moderate punctate-ruguiose, uniformly light 
1 The Crat. thoracicus is said by Schonherr to be of the size of 
Crat. lunatus , but this is only true in small specimens, which reach to the 
size of the largest ones of that North American species, but many others 
are one-third larger. The present species reaches to a still larger size. 
a The head and rostrum of Crat. thoracicus are much narrower 
and longer than in Crat. lunatus , though the elongation of the whole body 
be but little more indicated. 
