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interstitium quartum den tat o, interdum linea posteriore per marginem usque ad humerum continuata, 

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Forma major 5^-6 millim. : Yolcan de Cfririqui, alt. 2500 to 4000 feet. 

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local forms holds good throughout a large series of 

 pies. The dark elytral markings vary in the same way in both ; they form on the 

 part of each elytron a ragged, moderately narrow dark ring, never thickening into 



colour ; the ring, 







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52. Lebia chiriquensis. (Tab. XL fig. 11.) 



L. nemorali (Chaud.) proxime affinis et simillima, differt tantum statura paullo minore elytrorumque annulo 

 nigro magis compacto macula ovali magis regulari includente. Oblongo-ovata, postice paullo dilatata, sat 

 convexa, flavo-testacea, elytris utrinque annulo subovali lato nigro a basi usque longe ultra medium 

 extensa, postice apud suturam dilatata, margine postico deinde usque ad latera obliquo dentato ; palpis 

 apice valde attenuatis, <5 labialibus incrassatis ; thorace lato et brevi, antice rotundato deinde lateribus 

 rectis ; elytris profunde striatis, interstitiis convexis ; tarsorum articulo quarto longe bilobato. 



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lacerated margins of the black ring-marks of the elyt 



as material for comparison. All the 





differ from these in the more even or less 



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quite touch, the marg 





itself remaining yellow, like the scutellum, and almost always a small portion of the 





suture near the scutellum. The enclosed yellow spot 

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