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is reticulate-striolate on the disc, the reticulation gradually changing into rugosity at 

 the sides ; the punctures are very distinct and not very close together. The scutellum 

 is brassy. The elytra are dark blue, somewhat strongly punctured, the punctures 

 rather close together. 



In two examples the front of the head is green, and the rugosity appears to be a little 

 finer ; and the sides of the thorax are also more impressed. These may be males. 



A specimen from Oaxaca with the elytra green appears to be referable to the same 

 species. 



Three examples from Capetillo, Guatemala [Champion), may belong to this species, 

 but two of them ( s 1) have the thorax more broadly impressed at the sides as com- 

 pared with the supposed males alluded to above. 



6. Callimicra angustula. (Tab. IX. fig. 10.) 



Elongata, angusta, convexa, nitida ; capite magno thoraceque aureis, vel pallide caeruleis ; eljtris cyaneis. 

 Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Mexico, Tuxtla (Salle) ; Guatemala, San Juan in Vera Paz (Champion) ; 

 Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion). 



There is a little difference in the colour of the head and thorax, as in C. lucida ; 

 but the difference is much less marked, and there is a slight corresponding difference in 

 the sculpture of the head. The head is large, convex, very delicately reticulate- 

 striolate, and punctured, the punctures not very near together ; the lower part of the 

 face transversely rugulose, the rugose surface more extended in the specimens with the 

 golden colour. The thorax is delicately reticulate-striolate and punctured, the punc- 

 tures small but distinct, slightly separated from each other ; the margins are narrowly 

 impressed; the base is also transversely impressed; close to the lateral margin and 

 parallel to it there is a fine but well-defined ridge, commencing about the middle of the 

 side and nearly reaching the posterior angles. The scutellum is brownish. The 

 elytra are steel-blue, the surface slightly uneven and wrinkled, punctured, the punc- 

 tures inegular, moderately large, and not distinctly defined. The body beneath and 

 legs black. 



A single example from El Tumbador, Guatemala, entirely of a dark steel-blue 

 above, may be referable to the same species. 



