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TAPHROCERUS KERREMANSI Dugés. 
Taphrocerus kerremansi Ducks, La Naturaleza ,ser. 2, vol. 2, 1891, pp. 35-36, pl. 
2, figs. 62, 62a. 
This species was described from material collected at Tupataro, 
Mexico. There is a specimen in the National Museum Collection, 
collected at Tampico, Mexico, December 6, by F. C. Bishopp, which 
agrees very well with the description given by Dugés for this species. 
TAPHROCERUS COMMUNIS Waterhouse. 
Taphrocerus communis WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 130. 
The type locality of this species is Atoyac in Vera Cruz, Mexico, 
and the type, which is in the British Museum, has not been examined. 
It has been reported also by Waterhouse from Guatemala and 
Panama, and varies somewhat in color and form. It is represented 
in the National Museum Collection by the following material: Two 
specimens from La Ceiba, Honduras, collected November 29, 1916, 
by F. J. Dyer; two from Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama, April 19 and 
January 26, 1911, and one from Porto Bello, Panama, February 15, 
1911, all collected by E. A. Schwarz; one from Panama City, Panama, 
April 15, 1911, collected by A. H. Jennings; two from Corozal, Canal 
Zone, March, 1912, one from Paraiso, Canal Zone, January 19, 1911, 
and another specimen from Taboga Island, February 26, 1912, all 
from Panama and collected by August Busck; one from Minatitlan, 
Mexico, February 1, 1892, collected by H. Osborn; and another 
specimen collected by J. Zetek at Juan Mina, Canal Zone, Panama, 
on February 18, 1921. 
TAPHROCERUS ATTENUATUS, new species. 
Male.—Elongate, strongly attenuate posteriorly, subcylindrical 
uniformly piceous above, with a strong aeneous tinge, and without 
pubescent spots; beneath slightly darker than above. 
Head slightly narrower than pronotum at base, feebly convex, with 
a longitudinal groove extending from the occiput to the epistoma, the 
groove quite deep on the front and becoming obsolete on the occiput; 
surface with a few irregular, coarse, and very shallow punctures, and 
clothed with a few inconspicuous hairs; intervals very finely reticu- 
late, becoming nearly smooth on the front. Pronotum moderately 
convex, one and one-half times as wide as long, slightly narrower in 
front than behind, widest at base; sides when viewed from above 
feebly, obliquely dilated to the basal sixth, then parallel to the 
posterior angles, which are rectangular and feebly projecting beyond 
the humeral angles of the elytra; anterior margin truncate; base 
transversely truncate to middle of elytron, then turned obliquely 
backward to the scutellum, in front of which it is feebly, arcuately 
