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de Chiriqui, Panama. The type is in the British Museum and has 
not been examined. It is placed in the key on the basis of the orig- 
inal description. 
CALLIMICRA DIMIDIATA Waterhouse. 
Callimicra dimidiata WatERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 164, pl. 9, fig. 9. 
This species is much broader than angustula and was described 
from Bugaba, Panama, and the type, which is in the British Museum, 
has not been examined. It has been placed in the key from the 
characters given in the original description. 
CALLIMICRA BREVIUSCULA Waterhouse. 
Callimicra breviuscula WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, pp. 165-166. 
The type locality of this species is San Miguel del Rio, Orizaba, 
Mexico. The type is in the British Museum and has not been exam- 
ined. It is represented in the National Museum Collection by a 
single example from Mexico, without any definite locality, which was 
received from L. Conradt, Colima, State of Colima, Mexico. This 
specimen differs somewhat in color from the original description by 
having the disk of pronotum strongly cupreous and the elytra with 
a slight greenish and violaceous tinge. 
Genus LEIOPLEURA Deyrolle. 
Leiopleura H. Deyvroute, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 8, 1864, p. 219. 
The genus contains about 85 species, 9 of which are described in 
the present paper. The species of this genus are oblong or ovate, 
strongly attenuate posteriorly, and their distribution is confined to 
the warmer sections of the Western Hemisphere. Of this number of 
species 1 has been described from Cuba, 38 from Mexico and Central 
America, and the remainder from South America. 
Leiopleura viridicollis, described by Gory from Cayenne, Guiana,° 
and recorded by Waterhouse from Bugaba, Panama, has been 
omitted from the key, as it has been impossible toscorrelate the 
characters given in the original description with those used in the 
key. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES, 
1. Pronotum and elytra unicolored .......-..-. 2 
Pronottim-andel ytira, Deol ard ys op 5e lsc ot OE ye es <= = RE ans Se 
2. Surface above piceous . 3 
Surface above aeneous, aan ce. or cipucal oe 7 
Gapread .piceous, Soc0 65 le VL a See ES ica 4 
PICA BONEOUS (26 Ahn kceua tanec en a eee eee wens events SWateraousc. 
4. Sides of pronotum, narrowly flattened) ...g254.2 4-0-2 <2 52S Ree oe 5 
Sides ofspronotum broadly dlattened.oseeq- eevee oe ah s-26-s2e4-ce-2ieee. 6 
8 Mon. Bupr. Suppl., vol. 4, 1841, p. 343, pl. 58, fig. 339. 
