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OTOGLOSSA. — MICEAGEA. 



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El Tumbador (Champion) ; Nicakagija, Chontales * (Belt 2 ) ; Panama, Volcan de 

 Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 



The prevailing colour is a beautiful metallic blue ; but it is sometimes darker, and 

 specimens occur in which the elytra are violet with the margins greenish blue. The 

 tarsi are all pale reddish, except in Panama specimens, in which (especially at the 



apices of the joints) they are more or less blackish brown. 



2. Otoglossa obscurella. 



Otoglossa obscurella, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 608 \ 



6 Minor, nigra ; elytris leviter violaceo-tinctis, apice fascia obscure rnfa ad suturam angustata ; tarsis rufo- 

 piceis; abdomine flavo; capite post oculos paulo citius rectiusque angustato, occipite minus convexo; 

 tborace angusto, pone medium fortiter sinuato-angustato, basi iterum dilatato; elytris supra modice 

 insequalibus, obsolete striatis. 



" Long. 2\ lin." 



Hab. British Honduras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt 



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— South America, Colombia. 



Similar in colours and form to the South-Brazilian 0. terminalis, but differs in the 

 pale red tarsi. From 0. ricfitarsis it is distinguished by its relatively shorter form and 



by its dark violet-black 



3. Otoglossa marginella. (Tab. vill. fig. 24.) 



0. rufitarsi affinissima, differt colore fere nigro elytrisque apice angustissime rufo-marginatis. Elongata, 

 nigra yix chalybeata, tarsis testaceo-fulvis ; elytris oblongis, striis punetulatis vix impressis, interstitiis 

 hie illic elevatis, apice tenuissime rufo-marginatis; capite post oculos subrotundato-angustato ; thorace 

 angusto ante medium obtuso angulato, angulis posticis sat prominentibus sed apice obtusis. 



Long. 2| lin. (6 millim.). 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



MICRAGRA. 



Micragra, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Callidides, p. 63. 



Cylindronotum, Putzeys, Mem. Soc. E. d. Sci. d. Liege, ii. p. 374 (1846), nom. prseocc. 



Stenonotum, Lacordaire, Gen. des Coleopt. i. p. 107 (1854), nom. prseocc. 



Also peculiar to Tropical America. Six species have been described. 



l. Micragra senea. (Tab. vill. fig. 22.) 



r t 



Mem 



p. 374 \ 



Micragra <enea, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Callid. p. 65. 



Hab. Beitish Hondueas, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Zapote, El Reposo, 

 El Jicaro, San Geronimo ( Champion) ; Nicakagua, Chontales (Janson) ; Panama, 

 Caldera, Bugaba, David, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — South Ameeica, Cayenne 



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The numerous Central- American examples all belong clearly to one species, which 







