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Parva, postice sat dilatata, flavo-testacea ; elytris nigris, quarta parte posteriore,. macula circulari antico- 

 discoidali marginibusque angustis flavo-testaceis, caeteris ut in L. cMriquensi. 

 Long. 3|-4 millim. 









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Hah. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 



Notwithstanding its smaller size and the different facies, due chiefly to the much 



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broader hind part of the black ring-mark, I think it extremely likely that this is only 

 a variety of L. cMriquensi s. Some of the larger examples (4 millim.) graduate into 



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L. cMriquensis, the only difference being the greater and more uniform width of the 

 ' black ring-mark in its hinder portion. 



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55. Lebia tolteca. (Tab. XI. fig. 14.) 













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L. cMriquensi affinissima, differt solum elytrorum aimulo fusco vittaque submarginali tenuiore ; macula ovata, 

 flavo-fcestacea, inclusa, magis obliqua, versus humeros extensa. Palporum (praecipue labialium) articulo 



terminali <J basi incrassato, versus apicem subulato. 

 Long. 4|-5| millim. 



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Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Edge). 













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Var. minor 3|-4 millim. : Guatemala, El Tumbador (Champion^). 







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Might perhaps be more properly treated as a local form of L. cMriquensis ; but it is 

 smaller, and the browner ring-mark of the elytra, with the narrower marginal vitta, 

 and the consequently less regularly oval included yellow spot, gives it a different facies. 

 It is much more nearly related to lu cMriquensis than it is to L. biannulata, the hinder 

 part of the ring-mark being moderately broad and only slightly dentated along its hind 



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56. Lebia maya. (Tab. XL fig. 15.) 



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L. toltecce et biannulatce affinis, sed differfc elytrorum signaturis hand annuliformibus, vitta marginali deficiente, 

 fusco-bifaseiatis, fasciis apud suturam dilatatis et per vittam suturalem conjunctis, macula flava subovata. 

 interjecta extus ad marginem extensa. 



Long. 4|-5 millim. 



Hab. Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 





















The elytral markings are almost exactly as in L. longiloba (Chaud. Monogr. t. ii 



fig. 102), the chief difference being that the hinder fascia is more dentated on both its 





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margins. The difference is probably of specific value, and L. longiloba is recorded only 

 from Cartagena in Colombia ; but the species is not satisfactorily distinct from L. tolteca^ 





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one example having a faint trace of the lateral vitta. The labial palpi of the male have 











their terminal joint thickened at the base and subulate at the apex, like the rest of the 









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57. Lebia inconstans. (Tab. XL fig. 16.) 







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Parva, brevis, modice convexa, postice dilatata, flavo-testacea, elytris rufo-fuscis vel nigro-fuscis quinta parte 

 apicali macnlaque utrinque antico-discoidali marginibusque flavo-testaceis, profunde striatis, interstitiis 







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