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2. Clerus vulpinus. 
Clerus vulpinus, Gorham, Cist. Ent. p. 81}. 
Clerus boucardi, Chevr. Mémoire, p. 13’. 
Hab. Mexico !2, Puebla (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hége) ; GuaTeMaua, San Geronimo 
(Champion). 
My own description was published before M. A. Chevrolat’s, as he states in the note 
on the titlepage? that his Memoir, although deposited with the French Entomo- 
logical Society in 1875, was not published before the end of 1876. 
This species, although very close to C. mexicanus, and although I have joined it with 
that species (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1878, p. 164), is, I now think, distinct. It differs 
in having the abdomen black, in the thorax being entirely covered with tawny yellow 
hair, with the apex of the elytra of the same colour ; the central fascia is often entire, 
but in one specimen from San Gerénimo is narrowly interrupted at the suture. The 
type specimen I owe to Dr. Baden’s liberality. I have one from the collection of 
W. W. Saunders; and there are two in Sallé’s collection. Mr. Champion met with one 
at San Gerénimo. 
3. Clerus assimilis. 
Clerus assimilis, Chevr. Mag. Zool. 1843, p. 17°. 
Clerus vulpinus, var.?, Gorh. loc. cit. p. 817. 
Hab. Mexico!2, Cordova (Sallé); Guatemata, San Gerénimo, Senahu, Cahabon ; 
Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
This is so very close to the preceding species that I am still doubtful if they ought 
to be separated. The smaller size and smaller thorax, together with the interrupted 
fascia, seem constant. 
The thorax in the Bugaba specimens recently sent has a black band across the 
middle. ‘The apex is nearly always obliquely pubescent, the black fascia preceding it 
being wider on the margin, while in C. vulpinus the fasciz are straight. 
4. Clerus mexicanus. | 
Clerus mexicanus, Castel. Silb. Rev. iv. p.44’; Klug, Abhand. Berl. Akad. p. 299*; Spin. Mon. i. 
p- 248, t. 27. f. 2. . 
Clerus silbermanni, Chevy. Mag. Zool. 1843, p. 217. 
Clerus semiochraceus, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 41°. 
Hab. Mexico !23,.Paso del Macho, Cerro de Plumas (Hége), Vera Cruz, Orizaba 
(Sallé) ; GuareMaLa, San Gerdnimo ; Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt) ; Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion). 
