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C. glabratum of Colombia, which is of nearly the same form and still more polished. 

 By some unexplained error this species is labelled in the Salle collection C. Iceve, Dej., 

 with the description of which it does not in the least accord. 





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8. Calosoma laeve. (Tab. II. fig. 8.) 



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Calosoma Chevrolatii, Dejean, Cat. 3 



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(1837) 



Hab. Mexico 1 , near the city, Perote 2 (Salle, Flohr), Esperanza, Jalapa (Edge), 

 Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle). 



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The common Mexican insect which I refer to C. Iceve, Dej 



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which agrees with the description of 



thorax, and especially the gene: 



peculiar 



species 

 form of 



general outline or habit, which he happily hits off by his 

 expression " il s'eloigne un peu par sa forme des especes precedentes, et il a quelques 

 rapports avec quelques grandes especes de Zabrus, mais c'est un veritable Calosoma." 

 Its resemblance to large species of Zabrus, such as Z.femoratus, can escape no one ; and 

 it is the only species of Mexican Calosoma of which this could be said. Chevrolat's 

 description, though not so satisfactory, also fits the species ; I cannot, therefore, under- 

 stand why Dejean himself considered Chevrolat's insect distinct and gave it a new 

 name. This view is adopted in the Munich Catalogue (vol. i. p. 79) and by M. Salle, 

 who has labelled his specimens of w 7 hat are incontestably the C. Iceve of Dejean as 

 chevrolatii) T)ey,=lceve, Chevr. It is possible that Dejean had before him a variety of 

 his Iceve or an allied species named as the Iceve of Chevrolat. At Guanajuato C. Iceve 

 exhibits numerous varieties both in form and sculpture, but all preserving the character- 

 istic form of thorax. 







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9. Calosoma anthracinum. 



Calosoma anthracinum, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 569. 



Hob. Mexico. 



Very closely allied to C. Iceve, but differing in the thorax being much less rounded 



and narrowed behind, and with distinct though obtuse hind angles. A specimen which 



I received many years ago under this name from M. Henri Deyrolle measures 12J lines 



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smooth elyt 



Dejean gives 10 J lines as the length, and describes the elyt 



i being more distinctly punctate 

 gly variable in this group. 



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C. Iceve ; but the sculpture is exceed 









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10. Calosoma laBvigatum. 



Calosoma leevigatum, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1869, p. 374 



Hab. Mexico (Salle). 





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