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conspicuous submarginal thickening of the pronotum 

 extending on each side from the anterior ancrle to about a 

 quarter of the length of the base. 



While dealing with Tropical American species o^Ckeotus, 

 I may conveniently point out that Bates has wrongly 

 recorded C. metallicus, Har., from Central America. In 

 the Biologia Cent.-Americana he has referred a specimen 

 from Panama and another from Costa Rica to that species, 

 but the two are not conspecific, nor is either C. metallicus. 

 The latter was described from specimens collected by 

 Bates at Ega, of which a series is in the British Museum, 

 It is distinguished from both the other forms by the serrate 

 humeral margins of the elytra,, the three acutely-raised 

 interstices at their apical end, and the narrower and more 

 curved intermediate tibise, which have three or four striae 

 on their lower face. 



The specimen from Bugaba, Panama, agrees with another 

 from the same locality referred by Bates to his G. xiridi- 

 'pennis, of which all true examples are from Chiriqui. The 

 distinctive characters of this undescribed species are shortly 

 diagnosed as follows : — 



Clceotus hugahensis, sp. n. 



C. viridipenne valde affinis, differt magnitudine paulo minore, colore 

 magis cupreo, prothoracis disco impunctato, linca marginali antice 

 medio interrupto, tarsisque anticis tenuioribus. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Rah. Panama, Bugaba. 



The Brazilian species which appears to have been 

 mistaken by Bates for C. mctcdlicus, Har., and from which 

 I cannot distinguish the Costa Rican specimen mentioned 

 above, is also characterized here : — 



Clceotus acutipes, sp. n. 



C. metaUico et viridipenne valde affinis, sed tibiis anticis fortiter 

 dentatis, dentibus tribns apicalibus majoribus : tibiis intermediis 

 paulo latis, subtus Isevibns, protborace prope lateribus solum leviter 

 punctato ; elytrorum marginibus bumeralibns baud serratis, inter- 

 stitiis apicalibus leviter baud acute elevatis. 



Long. 7 mm. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro ; Costa Rica, Irazu. 

 This is no doubt a widely-distributed species. 



