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III. Notes on various Central American Coleoptera, with 
descriptions of new genera and species. By GEORGE 
CHARLES CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 
[Read November 20th, 1912.] 
Puarres fT, TV. 
THIS paper is mainly devoted to the enumeration and de- 
scription of the Coleoptera rejected by the various contri- 
butors to the “ Biologia Centrali-Americana ” as not belong- 
ing to the particular groups studied by them,! or which 
have been overlooked in the sorting of the large collections 
that have passed through the hands of the Editors of that 
work during the past thirty-five years. The material 
has been supplemented by a number of interesting Mexican, 
Guatemalan, and Antillean forms recently sent for 
determination by the authorities of the U.S. National 
Museum, who have kindly allowed me to retain co-types 
of the new species for the British Museum. To determine 
these insects a few closely allied Antillean and South 
American forms have also had to be studied, and these, too, 
are dealt with in the following pages. The Coleoptera 
examined belong to the Clavicorn or Serricorn series, with 
the exception of the Psephenidae, Tenebrionidae, and 
Othniidae. The described Central American Lytopeplus 
(= Brachylon, Gorh.), Hapalips, Trichodesma, Petalium 
(= Micranobium, Gorh.), Hupactus (= Lioolius, Gorh.), 
Priotoma (= Eutylistus, Fall), etc., have all had to be re- 
examined, and a revised table of the species of each of 
these genera (Petaliwm excepted) is appended. The 
section Coleoptera of the “ Biologia’? was completed in 
Dec. 1911, eighteen volumes in all having been required 
for the enumeration of 18,039 species. This article, 
therefore, is practically a supplement to one of the divisions 
of the “ Insecta ” of that work, and the names of the species 
not occurring in Central America are, for convenience 
of reference, placed within square brackets. The additions 
to the fauna, 106, are marked (except in the preliminary 
list) with an asterisk, 89 of them being described as new. 
+ The Tenebrionid Rhipidandri were dealt with by Dr. Sharp in 
“B. C.-Am.,” Coleoptera, II, 1, pp. 690-692 (March, 1905), 
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