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strongly and obliquely sinuated. In form and punctuation evidently similar to 

 P. latiusculd) but distinct in the metallic coloration of the elytra. 













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3. Pinacodera cribrata. (Tab. VIII. fig. 1.) 



Pinacodera cribrata, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875 \ 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz \ Orizaba, Capulalpam, Juquila (Salle), Guanajuato (Duges, 

 coll. Salle), Jalapa, Tehuacan (H'oge) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, Balheu, Chiacam 

 (Champion). 



















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L Pinacodera latiuscula. 



Pinacodera latiuscula, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875 1 



Hab. Mexico, Yucatan (Pilate l ). 













I have not seen this species. 





5. Pinacodera basipunctata. 



Pinacodera basipunctata, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875 \ 



Hab. Mexico \ Jalapa (H'oge) ; Guatemala, San Geronimo, Cerro Zunil (Champion) 











CYMINDIS. 









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Cymindis, Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. i. p. 190; Chaudoir, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1873, p. 57 

 Tarns, Clairville, Entom. Helv. ii. p. 94. 





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An extensive genus, consisting of about 100 described species, peculiar, as far as at 

 present known, to the north temperate zone, but more abundant and varied in species 

 in the Old World, especially in the Mediterranean region, than in North America. It 

 has not yet been recorded from so far south as Mexico. 











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1. Cymindis 



Hab. Mexico, Ciudad, province Durango (Forrer). 



Mr. Forrer has sent only one, apparently immature, example of this Cymindis. It is 

 possibly one of the numerous already described North- American species allied to 

 C. cribricollis, Dej. ; and its determination is impossible without further examples. 



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Didymochata, Chaudoir, ibid. p. 50. 



Malisus, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1864, ii. p. 240; Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875, p. 22. 



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