CLERUS. 163 
I have the type specimen at this moment before me. It has the thorax with scarcely 
any punctures visible ; the elytra have very little white pubescence and none in a fascia; 
a little is visible on the posterior half of the elytra, which appears shining when viewed 
from above. 
There is a series of species very closely allied to this one, and which are extremely 
difficult to determine. The present insect does not agree with what I regard as C. levi- 
gatus, Spin., which is from South America, and also cannot, I now think, be identified 
with the variable insect shown in our Plate under the name C. nitidus, and which 
appears to differ also from a species found by Hoge. 
47. Clerus inconstans. (Clerus nitidus, Tab. VIII. figg. 9, 10, 11.) 
Niger, nitidus, subdepressus; prothorace parce leviter punctato; elytris fascia haud conspicua e pube brevis- 
sima cinerea consistente, ad suturam versus basin recurvata ornatis. Long. 8 millim. 
Hab. GUATEMALA, Duefias, Calderas (Champion). 
Var. a. Pedibus rufis ; tarsis obscuris. 
Hab. GuatnMaLa, Capetillo, Dueftias (Champion). 
Var. 3. Prothorace lete rufo ; pedibus vel nigris vel rufis. 
Hab. Guatema.a, Capetillo, Calderas (Champion); Costa Rica, Rio Sucio (Rogers). 
Var. y. Elytris lividis, sutura nigra; prothorace vel nigro, vel rufo disco nigro; pedibus vel nigris vel rufis. 
Hab. GuateMata, Capetillo, Duefias (Champion). 
A most difficult species to deal with. Small black specimens come very near 
C. nitidus; but, considering its rather larger size, and that C. nitedus does not vary in 
the same way in its Mexican localities, I think it must be kept distinct. I have seen 
no undoubted specimens of C. nitidus which exhibit a pale fascia of hairs running from 
the centre of the margin backwards. 
48. Clerus mollifasciatus. 
Clerus mollifascia, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 461. 
Clerus levigatus, var. nebulosus, Spinola, Mon. i. p. 288, t. 21. f. 2.7 
Hab. Mexico !, Jalapa (Hoge), San Andres, Orizaba, Tepansacualco, Tuxtla (Sallé) ; 
GuaTEMALA, Capetillo, Cahabon (Champion); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion) ; 
Soutn AMERICA, Colombia. 
Although I have received a note from M. Chevrolat upon this species, pointing out 
the characters upon which he relies, I am still in doubt as to its distinctness from 
C. nitidus, as well as to what C. nebulosus may be. _ Hoge’s specimens are of the same 
size as C. nitidus, viz. 6-64 millim., and have the central band of white hairs composed 
of two or three separate linear spots obliquely placed; the Guatemala specimens are 
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