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§1. Hind body with acutely raised lateral margins. 
1. Conotelus stenoides. (Tab. IX. fig. 7.) 
Conotelus stenoides, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 338°; Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. vu. 
p. 286°. 
Hab. Norru America, Texas 2.—Mexico, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge) ; GUATEMALA, 
San Geronimo, Senahu, Balheu, El Reposo (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Jan- 
son); Panama}, Bugaba, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
§ 2. Hind body with the lateral margins depressed ; sculpture of the thorax 
dense and indefinite. 
2. Conotelus rufipes. 
Conotelus rufipes, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 336°. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge) ; Guatemaua (Sailé), Zapote, Capetillo, 
Duefias, Guatemala city, Purula (Champion), Aceytuno (Salvin); Panama, Boquete, 
Pefia Blanca (Champion). 
3. Conotelus mexicanus. 
Conotelus mexicanus, Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. XXiv. p. 837°. 
Hab. Mexico!, Cordova, Guanajuato (Sailé), Orizaba (fF. D. G. & H. H. Smith), 
Jalapa (Hége), Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); British 
Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux) ; GUATEMALA, Zapote, Duefias, Aceytuno, Guatemala 
city, San Gerénimo (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Taboga I. (Champion). 
This is apparently a variable species and difficult to separate from C. rujipes in some 
of its varieties; indeed, I at first thought the two were mere varieties of a single species, 
and such may possibly prove to be the case. I think it just as likely, however, that 
there are two, rather common, species, and two or three others closely allied and much 
rarer; but as I could not at present point to any satisfactory characters to distinguish 
these latter I have united them as varieties of C. meaicanus. The individuals are 
darker in colour than C. rufipes and smaller, with rather shorter elytra and limbs, and 
slightly coarser punctuation, and the last segment in the male considerably more slender 
than it is in C. rufipes. 
4. Conotelus niger. 
? Conotelus niger, Er. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. p. 252 1; Murray, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. pp. 335, 336°. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Janson).—Souta America, Brazil ??. 
L ascribe a Conotelus, unique in our collection, to this species, chiefly because it 
agrees with Murray’s statement that C. niger has the thorax more coarsely punctured 
than in the allied species. Erichson, however, says nothing to this effect, and indeed 
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