158 SEEEICOENIA. 



Var. 2. Similar to var. 1, but with the basal stripe abbreviated and the median fascia only extending to the 

 middle of the elytron ; these marks are bluish. i 



Hab. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet {Champion). 



9. Leiopleura interrupta. 



Ovalis, convexa, nitida; capite viridi-cseruleo, punctulato; thorace antice angustato, convexo, nitidissimo, 

 fusco-seneo, lateribus (praecipue angulis posticis) viridi-metallicis ; elytris nigro-violaceis, ad medium 

 fascia lata (ad suturam late interrupta) viridi, punctata, et ante apicem macula cyanea ornatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



This species differs from L. pulchra in being more regularly oval, with the thorax 

 more narrowed in front and the elytra more arcuate at the sides, their greatest width 

 being at the middle. The head is very delicately punctured, the punctures moderately 

 near together ; there is an elongate fovea in front. The thorax is sparingly punctured ; 

 the sides are narrowly margined, scarcely flattened, with a shallow ill-defined transverse 

 impression at the base near the hind angles. The elytra are convex, with the lateral 

 impression well marked, with some close rugose punctuation at the suture near the 

 scutellum, finely punctured elsewhere ; the median fascia touches the margin, but 

 does not reach the suture, with its posterior margin straight, the anterior margin 

 oblique, so that the fascia gradually increases in width ; the blue subapical spot is 

 transverse, and does not reach the suture. 



10. Leiopleura viridicollis. 



Brachys viridicollis, Gory, Mon. iv. p. 343, t. 58. £. 339 \ 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion).— Guiana, Cayenne 1 . 



I am unable to separate the Central-American specimens from Gory's species. 



11. Leiopleura basalis. 



Oblongo-ovalis, convexa, nitida ; capite viridi-aureo, punctato ; thorace antice angustato, leviter convexo, disco 

 antice fusco-nigro, basi cupreo-aurea, lateribus viridi-aureis, confertim subtiliter rugosis, haud deplanatis ; 

 elytris nigro-violaceis, postice arcuatim attenuatis, punctatis, medio fascia lata (ad suturam interrupta) 

 rufo-cuprea, apice viridi. 



Long. 1;| lin. 



Hab. Guatemala, Tamahu in Vera Paz (Champion). 



This species is a little narrower than L. pulchra, with the thorax more narrowed in 

 front and evenly convex. The elytra are scarcely as wide behind the middle as at the 

 base, with the lateral impression not very deep. The head is distinctly punctured, as 

 in L. puncticeps. The thorax has the front part of the disc brownish -black ; the base 

 is coppery, and the sides greenish-golden ; the dark parts are shining and sparingly 

 punctured, but the spot at the base and the golden margins are finely rugose and 



