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Bab. Guatemala, El Tumbador, Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Atitlan, San Isidro, Las 



Mercedes, Pantaleon {Champion). 



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Var. 3. P. jalapensis. Minus elongata, elytris paullo grossius punctato-striatis, sutura apice minime spinosa, 

 pygidioque semper apice late pallide testaceo ; clypeus in <$ antice angustato, apice reflexo subsinuato. 

 (Tab. XVI. fig. 4.) 



Bab. Mexico, Jalapa (Edge). 



A large number of examples, nearly all males • the few females have the pygidium 

 vaguely pallid at the apex, and transitions occur between them and P. virescens, 

 type form. 



Var. 4. P. cJialcopus. Supra toto saturate cupreo-viridis resplendens, elytris fulvo-castaneo-translucentibus ; 

 pedibus viridi-aeneis, femoribus paullo rufo-translucentibus. (Tab. XVI. fig. 3.) 



Bab. British Honduras, Cayo {JBlancaneaux) ; Guatemala, San Isidro, Las Mercedes 



(Champion). 



Two examples (male and female, the female duller in colour) from Cayo have 

 smoother elytra than others of the same colour from Guatemala, but not smoother than 

 individuals from Acapulco, and less smooth than one from Vera Cruz. Gradations 

 exist between them and the var. aurescens. 



6. Pelidnota cupritarsis. 



P. lucidce quam proxime affinis. Elongata, flavo-testacea vix seneo-tincta, corpore subtus pedibusque viridi- 



seneis bis rufo-translucentibus, tarsis lsetissime igneo-aureis. 

 Long. 26-27 millim. $ . 



Bab. Panama (coll. Bates).— Colombia, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. 



Very closely allied to the common P. lucida of Venezuela, with which it has in 

 common the immarginate base of the thorax, a character which would remove it not 

 only from Pelidnota, but from the group to which Pelidnota belongs, if it were 

 necessary to adhere to a single feature, in violation of all other signs of true affinity. 

 It differs from P. lucida in the absence of seneous gloss, except on the sides of the head 

 and thorax, and in the rich coppery-red tarsi. The under surface of the body, legs, and 

 pygidium are rich metallic green, and, except in the middle of the body, strigulose- 

 punctulate. The clypeus is subtriangular ( $ ), with the sides sinuated and the apex 

 reflexed and truncate or obtuse. The thickened margin of the elytra extends to within 

 a short distance of the sutural apex, which latter is simple, rectangular, or obtuse. 



The species answers in some respects to the imperfect description given by Latreille 

 of his P. polita, from Cuenca in Peru. 



7. Pelidnota ? 



Bab. Panama, Chiriqui (Trotsch). 



A single, very imperfect, specimen of a distinct species. 



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