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pygidium, in the frontal horn having only a short free extremity, the sides of the thorax 

 simply rounded, and in the mesosternal part of the sternal process being much broader 

 and shorter. It is remarkable that the clypeal horn, so variable in form in C. mutabilis, 

 is here always very short and triangular. 



Found in rotten pine-apples and other fruits {Champion). 



8. Cotinis subviolacea. 



Gymnetis subviolacea, Gory & Perch. Monogr. Cetoin. p. 333, t. 66. fig. 6 1 . 

 Cotinis subviolacea, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iii. p. 259 2 . 



Hob. Mexico 12 , Cordova, Tuxtla {Salle), Jalapa (Hoge), Teapa, Orizaba (H. H. 

 Smith), Temax and Valladolid in Yucatan {Gaumer) ; Guatemala {Salle), Coban in 

 Vera Paz (Conradt). 



Varies from glossy black through violaceous, purple-brown, on to brassy-green. Some 

 examples show faint rows of punctures on the elytra, and in others the clypeal horn 

 is obsolete, or visible only as an indistinct triangular fold of the posterior edge of the 

 front margin. 



9. Cotinis plicatipennis. 



Cotinis plicatipennis, Blanch. Cat. Coll. Eat. i. p. 33 1 . 



Hah. Mexico \ Jalapa {Salle, Hoge). 



Probably only a variety of C. subviolacea, but besides the transverse inequalities 

 and folds of the elytral surface, which constitute its sole structural difference, the 

 colours are more brilliant— golden or brassy-green and sometimes lustrous coppery. 



10. Cotinis viridicyanea. 



Gymnetis viridicyanea, Perbosc, Her. Zool. 1839, p. 262 . 

 Cotinis viridicyanea, Schaum, Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 1844, p. 356. 

 Cotinis subviolacea var. viridicyanea, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iii. p. 259. 



Hah. Mexico 1 , Campeche {Salle), Temax in North Yucatan {Gaumer). 



Sent in abundance from Temax by Gaumer. 



11. Cotinis polita. 



Cotinis polita, O. Janson, Cist. Entom. ii. p. 133 \ 



Hob. Nicaragua, Chontales {Janson *) ; Panama, Bugaba {Champion), Chiriqui 

 {Trbtsch). 



A glossy black species, with frontal carina gradually lowering and not free at its 

 extremity. 



