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the under surface and pygidium darker, piceo-testaceous, with 

 stronger metallic-green lustre; legs very pale testaceous throughout, 

 the femora faintly viridescent, the tibiae cupreous; head and clypeus 

 nearly as in strigosa, the eyes relatively a little larger; prothorax 

 similar but shorter, rather more than twice as wide as long, the 

 surface similarly but everywhere still more finely and sparsely 

 punctate, becoming impunctate near the sides; scutellum short, 

 rounded, wholly impunctate; elytra but little wider than the pro- 

 thorax, with feeble punctulate lines, coarser basally nearly as in the 

 preceding but shorter, more parallel, very evenly and feebly arcuate 

 at the sides and more rapidly and obtusely rounded at apex; under 

 . surface nearly similar, the legs rather slender, the sixth ventral of 

 the male with the coriaceous segment filling the apical sinus similarly 

 pale in color; pygidium nearly smooth, very shining. Length (cf ) 

 22. o mm.; width 11.5 mm. Colombia *refulgens n. sp. 



Form more oblong and parallel than in strigosa and piceous throughout 

 above, with feeble greenish lustre, more polished and less pearly 

 than in that species, the pygidium and under surface black, with 

 polished greenish lustre, varied with coppery on the abdomen; legs 

 testaceous, the femora and tibiae largely black, with shining green 

 lustre along the lower surfaces; head and clypeus nearly as in 

 strigosa, the prothorax also similar though not evidently narrower 

 than the elytra, the punctures sparse but deep and very distinct to 

 the thick lateral beading anteriorly, becoming sparser and fine pos- 

 tero-laterad ; apical margin not wholly obsolete medially but ex- 

 tending entirely across, though flat and feeble medially; scutellum 

 less transverse; elytra less elongate, the parallel sides feebly and more 

 evenly arcuate, the apex much more rapidly and obtusely rounded, 

 the dilated lateral margin nearly similar and as also in refulgens; 

 striae fine, very feeble but more sharply punctulate than in either of 

 the two preceding, becoming very wide and with extremely coarse 

 but similarly ill-defined, shallow and chagrined punctures basally; 

 scutellum smooth apically; under surface and legs similar in struc- 

 ture, the sixth ventral of the male with the sinus less shallow, the 

 coriaceous seventh segment less abbreviated and darker in color. 

 Length (cf ) 22.7 mm.; width 12.2 mm.; Honduras (San Pedro Sula). 



*obscurella n. sp. 



5 Body more parallel and oblong-elongate, blackish, the pronotum 

 finely ochreous along the lateral margins, the elytra pale ochreous, 

 without trace of metallic lustre, the under surface and very convex 

 pygidium with faint aeneous lustre; head and clypeus densely punc- 

 tate, the occiput more sparsely and shallowly; prothorax with rather 

 strong punctures, well separated medially but dense and confluent 

 toward the sides, not twice as wide as long, of the usual outline, the 

 apical bead obsolete medially; scutellum slightly transverse, ogival; 

 elytra a third longer than wide, the sides rounding in nearly apical 

 half, the marginal bead (d 71 ) but little thickened and obsolete at or 

 before the middle, the series of small but distinct punctures almost 

 regular and unimpressed throughout the width, the striae not coarse 

 basally, as in all the preceding, but with the punctures toward the 



