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to the apex, and the interstices are also sparingly and very finely punctured (scarcely 
rugose, as given in the description). The prosternum is subquadrate, and has a few 
fine punctures. 
42(s). Lamprosoma verepacis. 
Black; head greenish, finely granulate; thorax finely and rather closely punctured ; elytra narrowed poste- 
riorly, very finely punctate-striate ; prosternum constricted at the middle, longer than broad. 
Length 2 line. 
Hab. Guatemata, San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Of posteriorly less narrowed shape than L. atro-violaceum, almost entirely black, the 
thorax more distinctly and closely punctured ; but principally distinguished from that 
species by the elongate and distinctly constricted prosternum. The head is minutely 
eranulate, of a metallic greenish colour, and impressed with a few punctures (but 
not with a longitudinal groove). The underside, instead of being distinctly punctured, 
as in several of the allied species, is entirely impunctate. 
Lamprosoma modestum (p. 104). 
To the locality given, add :—Panama, Boquete (Champion). 
A specimen subsequently received from the State of Panama is slightly larger and of 
somewhat broader shape than the Guatemalan type. 
45. Lamprosoma punctifrons. 
Ovate, very convex, narrowed behind, black; above metallic cupreous; head greenish, strongly punctured ; 
thorax closely and finely punctured; elytra strongly punctate-striate, the interstices finely punctured ; 
prosternum slightly longer than broad, narrowed at the middle. 
Length ? line. 
Hab. Panama, Caldera in Chiriqui (Champion). 
The head in this small species is very strongly punctured near the eyes; the latter 
are large and their diameter is equal to that of the space dividing them, this space 
being extremely finely granulate and having a longitudinal groove down the centre. 
The thorax is three times as broad as long; its median lobe is very little prominent or 
produced, the margin on each side of it being slightly sinuate; the surface is closely 
and finely punctured. ‘The elytra are more strongly punctured than the thorax, and 
the interstices each bear a single row of finer punctures. The underside is black, 
the meso- and metasternum finely and remotely punctured; the prosternum is 
elongate. 
OOMORPHUS. (To follow the genus Lamprosoma, p. 105.) 
Oomorvhus, Curtis, Brit. Entom. viii. t. 347 (1831). 
Three species are at present placed in this genus, which principally differs from 
