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LEIOPLEURA TRIVIALIS Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura trivialis Watrruovuse, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 159, pl. 9, fig. 5. 
This species was described from material collected by Mr. Champion 
on Taboga Island, Panama. The type is in the British Museum and 
and has not been examined. The species is placed in the key from 
the characters given in the original description. 
LEIOPLEURA MINUTA Kerremans. 
Leiopleura minuta Kerremans, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 63, 1894, p. 422. 
Described from material collected in the refuse of tobacco imported 
into Paris, France, from Mexico. It is represented in the National 
Museum Collection by one specimen collected at Tampico, Mexico, 
December 7, 1909, by E. A. Schwarz. 
LEIOPLEURA NIGRA Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura nigra WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, 
p. 159. 
Described from material collected by Mr. Champion at Bugaba, 
Panama, and the type, which is in the British Museum, has not been 
examined. The species has been placed in the key from charac- 
ters furnished by a single example collected at Cordoba, Mexico, 
June 13, by Frederick Knab, which agrees very well with the original 
description. 
LEIOPLEURA PICEA, new species. 
Oblong, strongly convex, broadly rounded in front, broadly attenu- 
ate posteriorly, and slightly narrower behind than in front, moder- 
ately shining, and uniformly piceous above and beneath. 
Head feebly convex and narrowly, obsoletely depressed on the front, 
the depression becoming obscure near the epistoma and on the vertex, 
with a narrow, longitudinal groove extending from the epistoma to a 
large, distinct, oblong fovea on the front; surface sparsely and irregu- 
larly punctate, the punctures very shallow and becoming obsolete 
on the front; intervals finely and obsoletely reticulate-striolate; 
antennae rather short and entirely piceous. Pronotum moderately 
convex, nearly three times as wide as long, distinctly narrower in 
front than behind, widest at the base; sides strongly, arcuately atten- 
uate from base to anterior angles; posterior angles nearly rectangular; 
anterior margin broadly arcuately emarginate; base transversely 
truncate to near middle of the elytron, then feebly sinuate and turning 
obliquely backward to the scutellum; in front of which it is truncate; 
surface rather broadly flattened along the sides, with a broader, 
shallow depression near the posterior angles, and with two deep, 
narrow, lunate depressions on the disk, placed one on each side of the 
middle and about equally distant from base and anterior margin, 
