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found in Central America have their metropolis in Mexico according to the state of 

 our present knowledge, although their geographical distribution extends doubtless 

 much further, two species at least having been found quite lately as far south as 

 Guatemala. Neither North nor South America has furnished us with a single species — 

 the more remarkable, as the latter country especially possesses so many species of the 

 nearly allied genus Lema. The rest of the species of Crioceris, to the amouut of about 

 seventy-three, are pretty nearly equally distributed over the Old World. 



1. Crioceris lafertei. 



Crioceris lafertei, Lacord. Mon. p. 548. 



Hab. Mexico. 



2. Crioceris viridis. 



Crioceris viridis, Chevr. Col. Mex. cent. i. no. 20 ; Lacord. Mon. p. 549 ; Cand. Mem. Liege, xvi. 

 p. 386, t. 5. f. 3. 



Hab. Mexico. 



3. Crioceris nitida. 



Crioceris nitida, Lacord. Mon. p. 550. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



4. Crioceris alternans. 



Crioceris alternans, Lacord. Mon. p. 551; Klug, Dej. Cat. 3rd ed. p. 385. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



5. Crioceris costulata. 



Crioceris costulata, Lacord. Mon. p. 551. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



6. Crioceris indigacea. 



Crioceris indigacea, Lacord. Mon. p. 552. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



7. Crioceris lazulina. 



Crioceris lazulina, Lacord. Mon. p. 553. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



8. Crioceris smaragdina. 



Crioceris smaragdina, Lacord. Mon. p. 554. 

 Hab. Mexico ; Guatemala, Zapote (Champion). 



Three specimens of this insect were sent by Mr. Champion, one of which agrees in 



