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VIII. Additions to the Longicornia of Mexico and Central 

 America, with remarks on some of the preriouslii- 

 recorded sjyecies. By the late Henry Walter 

 Bates, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Witli an Introduction 

 hy Frederick DuCane Godman, F.E.S. 



[Kead March 9th, 189'2.J 



Plates V., VI., & YII. 



[The late Henry Walter Bates was engaged upon this 

 paper when seized by the illness which terminated 

 fatally on February 16th. It was intended that it shoul4 

 include an account of all the additions to the Longi- 

 cornia that had come to hand since the volume of the 

 ' Biologia Centrali-Americana ' treating of this subject 

 had been closed, and to do for this Tribe what had 

 already been done for the Families Cicindelidic (Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. Lond., 1890, pp. 493, et scq.) and Carahid<e 

 {op. cit., 1891, pp. 228, etseqJ). 



Unfortunately, Mr. Bates had not quite finished his 

 task, the Lamiidce remaining untouched. But his MS. 

 extends to the end of the Ceramhyi-id<e, and, as might 

 have been expected from so methodical a worker, was so 

 left that it could easily be arranged for publication, 

 This has been done by Mr. Champion, and the pape^* 

 is now offered to the Society as the last coi^tributioij 

 to Entomological Science of one of her most devoted 

 students, and as an evidence that the author continued 

 his work to the last available moment of his life. 



Seventy-nine species, of which seventy-four ajL'e de^ 

 scribed as new, are added, which, with the number 

 recorded in the ' Biologia Centrali-Americana,' 1278, 

 brings the total up to 1352 species. Eleven additional 

 genera are enumerated, five only of which (Asoiiiuii, 

 A ncjius, Charisia, Ceresiavi, and Athctesis) were previously 

 known, and six (Protcinidiuin, Anatinomma, Poecilo- 



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