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interstitio tertio tripunctato. Saturate olivaceo-senea, antennis pedibusque chalybeo-nigris ; ely trorum 

 truncatura vix flexuosa, angulo suturali breviter, exteriori latius et longius, dentato ; antennis articulo 

 octavo baud abbreviato. 

 Long. 13 millim. $ . 



Hab. Guatemala, Teleman {Champion). 

 One example only. 







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19. Agra mexicana. 



Agra mexicana, Buquet, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835,, p. 606 1 ; Chaudoir,, ibid. 1861, p. 132. 



Hab. Mexico \ Cordova (Salle); Guatemala, Mirandilla, Teleman, Panzos (Champion). 







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Varies in its metallic coloration like A. varians, to which it is extremely closely 

 allied. One example, from Panzos, is dark olivaceous green. The male has the whole 

 centre of the mesosternnm and abdomen, the inner side of the trochanters and femora, 

 and the four posterior coxae densely hairy, more hairy than in A. varians 6 , 



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20. Agra chrysopteryx. (Tab. XII. fig. 22.) 



Agra chrysopteryx, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 609 3 . 



"A. rutilipenni proxime affinis et similis. Castaneo-rufa, elytris (epipleuris exceptis) laete viridi-auratis ; capite 

 post oculos breviter semiovato, punctis nonnullis piliferis impresso; thorace medio modice rotundato- 

 dilatato, panlo ante apicem fere subito angustato, lineatim subsparsim irregulariter foveato-punctato, 

 longe piloso ; elytris apice snbrecte oblique truncatis, angulo exteriore breviter dentato, suturali rotundato, 

 supra acute punctulato-striatis, striis secunda et quarta 5-6-punctatis, stria sexta bipunctata. 



" cj metasterno et abdomine medio longe rufo-barbatis. 



" Long. 7 lin." 



Hab. Nicakagua, Chontales (Janson 1 ); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui {Champion). 



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21. Agra purpurea. (Tab. XII fig. 21.) 



A. rutilipenni affinis. Cupreo-fusca, elytris (interdum olivaceo-seneis) marginibus laete igneo-cupreis, corpore 

 subtus nigro-seneo nitido, antennis basi excepta piceo-rufis ; capite post oculos modice elongato, 9 qua- 

 drato, S semiovato, occipite punctis nonnullis magnis ; thorace sat lato, antice gradatim modice angustato, 

 grosse lineato-punctato ; elytris apice valde flexuoso-truncatis, sutura debiscenti, angulo hand producto, 

 angulo exteriori breviter dentato, punctulato-striatis, striis secunda, quarta et sexta punctis magnis et 



conspicuis plurimis. 

 cJ metasterno ventreque medio, trocbanteribus et coxis 4 posterioribus femoribusque intermediis ' intus dense 



hirsutis. 

 $ antennis articulo octavo haud abbreviato. 

 Long. 17 millim. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 





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The underside of the body and the epipleurse'of the elytra are shining, generally dark 



greenish brassy ; the upper side is very dark purple-brown, the thor 



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metallic and the 



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sometimes greenish ; the cincture of brilliant purplish 



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which surrounds the elytra is limited on the sides to the marginal 



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