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2. Cleoderes mexicanus. 
Cleoderes mexicanus, Boh. in Schénh, Gen. Cure. v. p. 524’. 
Hab. Muxtco!, Toxpam, San Andres Tusxtla (Sallé), J alapa (Hoge, Trujillo), Almo- 
longa, Bobo, Las Vigas (Hoge), Omilteme and Xautipa in Guerrero (H. H. Smith), 
Mochitlan in Guerrero (Baron); British HonpDURaS (Blancaneaux); Nicaraeva, 
Chontales (Janson). 
The outer yellow line is apparently always present in this species, and the tubercle 
outside the large tooth on the front femur can constantly be detected in the male. We 
have received nearly forty specimens of the species, of which eight are from Nicaragua. 
It is curious that this insect has not been found in Guatemala. 
3. Cleoderes guatemalenus, sp. n. (Tab. III. figg. 1; 1a, last three joints 
of hind tarsus, ¢.) 
Niger, thorace utrinque ad basin rufo, elytris flavo-quadrilineatis. 
Long. 11-36 millim. 
Hab. Guaremata, Balheu, San Gerdnimo, Purula, Coban, Senahu, and San Juan in 
Vera Paz, El Tumbador, Cerro Zunil, Zapote, Capetillo (Champion). 
Mr. Champion procured a fine series of between eighty and ninety specimens of this 
species, which may readily be distinguished from all the others of the genus by the 
patch of red colour on each side of the thorax. Both the yellow lines on the elytra are 
conspicuous and entire. In the male there is a small tubercle on the front femur 
near the elongate tooth. The apical joint of the antenna is thick. The claw-joint of 
the hind tarsus of the male is compressed laterally, so as to be lamellate. 
Although extremely close to C. mexicanus, this insect can always be distinguished 
by the colour of the thorax, and, in addition to this, the outer apical angle of the elytra 
is less obtuse. The insect inhabits both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes of Guatemala. 
4, Cleoderes bivittatus. 
Cleoderes mexicanus, var. bivittatus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. v. p. 525°. 
? Cleoderes bivittatus, Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1867, p. 219°. 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten), Volcan de Irazu, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion).—Co.omBta 1, Bogota ?. 
In this species there is but one tooth on the front femur, but it is longer and more’ 
acute than usual; the outer yellow line of the elytra is usually entirely absent, but is 
sometimes present as a short thin mark. ‘The male can always be distinguished from 
the corresponding sex of the other species of the genus by the fact that the last joint 
of the hind tarsus is simple, whereas in all the other Clwoderes I have seen this joint 
is compressed and laminate in a very curious manner. 
I have examined about fifty examples of the species. Unfortunately, I have had no 
