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sides behind the conspicuously prominent humeri but feebly oblique, the 

 apex broadly obtuse; striae very fine but distinctly impressed in the male 

 minutely feebly punctulate, except, as usual, the strongly punctate sutural 

 stria- intervals smooth; pygidium rather transverse, loose y punctate 

 almost exactly similar in the sexes; male abdomen very feebly impressed 

 medio-basally, the fifth segment with a densely pubescent fovea which is 

 slightly transverse in form, deflexed at tip in the female. Length 7.0-74 

 mm.; width 4.8-5.2 mm. Brazil. Three specimens. ... .festivus Fabr. 

 Body much less stout, notably more oval and elongate, similarly convex ... .9 

 o_Form notably elongate, convex, shining, bright green throughout, the legs, 

 partially, and the abrupt conspicuous humeral prominences tinged with feeble 

 coppery lustre; beak (cf) cylindric, less compressed and less thick than 

 usual, somewhat longer than the head and prothorax and with rather coarse 

 but loose punctuation; antennae at apical third and of the usual form but 

 short and not very stout; prothorax only three-sevenths wider than long, 

 feebly convex in profile but rapidly declivous in apical third, the sides con- 

 verging, at first nearly straight, thence rather strongly rounding to the abrupt 

 tubulation, which is three-sevenths as wide as the base, minutely, sub- 

 obsoletely punctulate, the basal lobe broadly rounded; scutellum nearly 

 twice as wide as long; elytra somewhat longer than wide, obtusely oval 

 behind, the prominences with nearly straight, somewhat oblique sides; stnae 

 very fine and feeble, minutely punctate, the first coarsely so, except behind 

 the middle; pygidium transversely oval, rather convex, deeply punctate; 

 male abdomen distinctly impressed medio-basally, the apical fovea of the 

 fifth segment well developed, very deep and fusco-pubescent, rounded and 

 scarcely wider than long. Length 7.0 mm.; width 44 mm. Costa Rica. 

 A single specimen, sent by Mr. Champion under the name festtvus Fabr. 



s F prominens n. sp. 



Form more rhomboid-oval, convex, with very much smaller more obtuse and 

 feebler humeral prominences, polished green throughout, the humeral prom- 

 inences feebly; subapical umbones and legs in great part cupreous; beak (c?J 

 bright cupreous, relatively thicker and more compressed than in the pre- 

 ceding, separated from the head by a rather distinct though very obtuse 

 impression, moderately arcuate, a little longer than the head and prothorax 

 more finely but strongly, sparsely punctate, the antenna between apical 

 third and fourth and of the usual structure in this section; prothorax two- 

 fifths wider than long, evenly and distinctly convex in profile, the sides 

 strongly converging and very evenly, moderately arcuate from base to 

 tubulation, the latter abrupt and only two-fifths as wide as the base; punc- 

 tures very fine and remote, the basal lobe prominent, evenly rounded, the 

 triangular scutellum one-half wider than long; elytra barely longer than 

 wide, more triangular, the sides much more oblique; apex more narrowly 

 obtusely rounded; striae not very narrow but very shallow, impressed, with 

 the punctures somewhat strong and very distinct; pygidium slightly trans- 

 verse, deeply but very loosely punctate; male abdomen deeply impressed 

 medio-basally, the adjoining metasternum more feebly, the apical lovea 

 nearly similar. Length 5.5 mm.; width 34 mm. Guatemala. One speci- 

 men, from an unrecorded source ....... .binanus n. sp 



Form oval, less rhombic, almost similar in lustre and coloration throughout, but 

 much smaller; beak ( 9 ) brilliantly cupreous, a little shorter but otherwise 

 similar, the antennae near four-sevenths; prothorax quite different widest 

 at base, but more dilated and rounded at the sides anteriorly, the latter 

 diverging and straight from about the middle to the base; tubulation shorter 

 and less abrupt, three-sevenths as wide as the base; sculpture, lobe and 

 scutellum almost similar, the elytra also almost similar, except that the 



