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The type, which is in the British Museum, has not been examined; 
the species has been given its position in the key on the basis of the 
original description. 
LEIOPLEURA LONGULA Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura longula WatTERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, pp. 162-163. 
Described from material collected by Sallé at Cordoba, Mexico. 
The species is more elongate than polita, and strongly attenuate pos- 
teriorly. It is not represented in the National Museum Collection, 
but is placed in the key from the characters given in the original 
description. 
LEIOPLEURA VIRIDIFRONS Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura viridifrons WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 156. 
The type locality of this species is Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama, 
and was collected by Mr. Champion at an altitude af 5,000 feet. 
The species is unknown to the writer, and it is placed in the key 
from the characters given in the original description. 
LEIOPLEURA AENEJFRONS Waterhouse. 
Leiopleura aeneifrons WATERHOUSE, Biol. Centr.-Amer. Coleopt., vol. 3, pt. 1, 
1889, p. 160. 
This species was described from material collected by Mr. Champion 
at Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama, at an altitude of 2,500 feet. It is 
one of the elongate and rather slender species; the pronotum has 
the sides nearly parallel at the basal half, and the elytra is gradually 
attenuate from the base to the apex. The species is not represented 
in the National Museum Collection, but has been given its position 
in the key solely upon the characters given in the original description. 
LEIOPLEURA ATTENUATA, new species. 
Oblong, moderately convex, broadly rounded in front, strongly 
attenuate posteriorly, and distinctly narrower behind than in front, 
moderately shining; head blue, with the anterior margin greenish ; 
pronotum, scutellum, and elytra strongly aeneous, the pronotum nar- 
rowly margined on the sides and behind the basal depressions with 
green; beneath piceous. 
Head moderately convex, and very feebly longitudinally depressed 
on the front, the depression becoming obsolete near the epistoma 
and on the vertex, and in the bottom of which is an obscure, longi- 
tudinal groove with a distinct oblong fovea at the middle: surface 
sparsely and irregularly punctate, the punctures coarser and denser 
on the occiput, but becoming more obsolete on the front ; intervals 
densely and coarsely granulated, which nearly obscures the punc- 
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