328 NITIDULID2. 
Herr Hége procured a fine series of this handsome insect; the specimens exhibit but 
little variation, and the species can always be distinguished from C. ilustris by the 
larger size, the quite concolorous club of the antenne, and the diminished punctuation 
of the prothorax at the sides. 
2. Camptodes illustris. 
Strongylus illustris, Chevr. Col. Mex. Cent. i. fasc. 3, no. 43 *. 
Camptodes illustris, Er. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. p. 329’. 
Hab. Mexico 12, Ventanas in Durango 2000 feet (Hoge, Forrer), Acapulco in Guerrero 
(Hoge), Jalapa (Hége, M. Trujillo), Cordova, El Mirador, Vera Cruz (Sal/é). 
This species varies much in size and colour; the elytra are usually of a rather obscure 
green colour, this varying to purplish-black; specimens are also found in which the 
upper surface is dull owing, apparently, to a greater development of the excessively 
minute sculpture which the thorax and elytra bear in addition to their more scattered 
and coarse punctuation. In the male the hind margin of the last ventral segment is 
bisinuate, while in the female it is rounded. 
We have received a good series of this species; the examples from Ventanas—seven 
in number—are all very aberrant and vary greatly in size; there is considerable variation 
also in the large series from Jalapa; from the other localities only single examples have 
been received. 
3. Camptodes championi, sp. n. 
Rotundatus, convexus, rufo-testaceus, antennarum clava, prothorace disco scutelloque nigris; elytris lete 
cyaneis. 
Long. 53 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Distinguished from C. dl/ustris by the red thorax, which is broadly black along the 
middle; the vertex of the head also is black; the thorax is very finely punctate. In 
other respects like C. dllustris, so far as I can judge from the two females which are all 
we have received of this species. 
4, Camptodes formosus, sp. n. (Tab. X. figg. 20, ¢; 20a, antenna.) 
Rotundatus, convexus, subtus rufo-testaceus, prosterno medio pectoreque fuscis, supra cyaneus (vel viridis), pro- 
thoracis capitisque limbo rufo-testaceo, antennis rufis, clava fusca; capite, prothorace elytrisque sat crebre 
 fortiter punctatis. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge), Teapa (H. H. Smith), Yucatan (Sallé), 
Temax in North Yucatan (Gaumer); Brirish Honpuras, R. Hondo (Blancaneauz) ; 
GuatemMaLa, San Gerénimo, Cahabon, Chiacam, and San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion). 
Var. Supra fere omnino viridi-cyaneus, prothorace ad latera anguste flavescente. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
