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and obsoletely reticulate-striolate. Abdomen beneath finely and 
densely reticulate-striolate, with a few short, obscure hairs; last seg- 
ment broadly rounded at apex. Prosternum obsoletely reticulate- 
striolate; anterior margin feebly sinuate. Metasternum with a few 
coarse punctures. 
Length, 2.5 mm.; width, 1.4 mm. 
Type locality.—Paraiso, Canal Zone, Panama. 
Type.—Cat. No. 25124, U.S.N.M. 
Described from a single specimen collected by E. A. Schwarz 
March 18, 1911. 
This species is slightly more robust than picea Fisher, and each 
elytron is ornated with a large, golden-coppery spot. 
LEIOPLEURA LATA Kerremans. 
Leiopleura lata 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. The origin of the specimens 
collected under these conditions should be verified, as tobacco from 
Brazil and other localities was stored in the same building. The 
species is unknown to the writer and is placed in the key from the 
characters given in the original description. 
LEIOPLEURA CRASSA Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura crassa WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 1889, 
pp. 155-156, pl. 9, fig. 3. 
This species was described from material collected at Bugaba, 
Taboga Island, Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; and Cacoj in Vera Paz, 
Las Mercedes, and Cerro Zunil, Guatemala. The type locality for 
the typical form is Bugaba, Panama. The species is very variable 
in color, and varies from entirely black examples to those with the 
head and pronotum bluish-green and the elytra dark blue, which is 
considered the typicalform. There are two entirely black specimens 
in the National Museum Collection; one collected at Porto Bello, 
Panama, March 9, 1911, by E. A. Schwarz, and the other one at 
Para:so, Canal Zone, Panama, April 6, 1911, collected by the same 
collector, which agree with the description given for the black 
variety by Waterhouse. 
LEIOPLEURA SCHWARZI, new species. 
Broadly ovate, feebly convex, slightly longer than wide, broadly 
rounded in front, slightly narrower behind than in front, and strongly 
shining; head and pronotum light bluish-green ; scutellum brownish; 
elytra cynaneous, with a strong violaceous tinge, each elytron with 
two large, golden-green spots along the lateral margin; beneath 
piceous. 
