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12. Notiobia Hmbipennis. 





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Notiobia Hmbipennis, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 590. 







u Subcupreo-senea, nitida ; thorace valde transverso, medio rotundato-dilatato, postice modice angustato, angiitis 

 posticis vix rectangulis ; elytris oblong o-ovatis, apice fortiter sinuatis et extus dentatis, profunde striatis, 

 limbo laterali (apicem versus latiore) alutaceo subtestaceo-opaco, fovea etiam lata antico-discoidali paullo 

 alutaceo-opaca, interstitio tertio postice unipunctato ; antennis, palpis et pedibus rufo-piceis. 



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Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua {Belt)." 









13. Notiobia sinuessa. 



N. limbipenni proxime affinis, paullo minor, saturatius fusco-cuprea elytroramque apice ante sinum baud 

 dentatum. Brevis, dilatata, minus convexa, fusco-cuprea, soneo tincta, palpis, antennis pedibusque rufo- 

 piceis ; capite brevi et lato, oculis magnis ; tborace valde transverso, angulis posticis distinctis fere rectis ; 

 elytris apice utroque sexu profunde sinuatis, angulo superiore fere rotundato, dorso antico utrinque late 

 depresso ibique et lateribus versus apicem leviter alutaceo-opacis, fortiter (apicem versus profundius) striatis, 





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striola scutellari elongata versus striam secundam curvata. 



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Very closely allied to JV. Hmbipennis, but distinguished by its smaller size, darker 

 coppery or brassy-brown colour (which is not changed to tawny on the alutaceous 

 patches of the elytra), and by the upper end of the elytral sinuation not forming a 













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14. Notiobia disparilis. (Tab. III. fig. 15, $ .) 



Notiobia disparilis, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 589, 





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" JEneo-cuprea (elytris $ eupreo-fuscis), glabra ; epistomate, labro, palpis, antennis et pedibus piceo-rufis ; 

 thorace valde transverso, ante medium late rotundato, deinde vix sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis 

 rectis, anticis omnino rotundatis, supra impunctato, fovea basali utrinque magna irregulari, subrugata ; 

 elytris tborace basi latioribus, apice profunde sinuatis, supra ( $ ) fortiter striatis, interstitiis dorso sub- 

 planis, duobus marginalibus alutaceo-opacis; $ baud striatis, opacis, sutura costisque tribus elevatis 





















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nitidis. 





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The upper edge of the elytral sinuation is sharply angulated, almost dentiform. 









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Harpalus, Latreille, Hist. Nat. viii. p. 325 (1804). 



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