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In colours and in the elongated form similar to C. castanipes, but the head of totally- 

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Colpodes sphodroides, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1859, p. 309 ; id. ibid. 1878, p. 322 * 



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C. Sjohodroidi et biovato affinis, sed longior et gracilior, elytris eyaneo-nigris depressis subopacis ; capite ovato, 

 oeulis modice prominentibus, genis post oculos sat tumidis, collo constricto ; palpis apice recte truncatis ; 

 thorace angusto, ovato, depresso, postice gradatim angustato angulis posticis omnino rotundatis ; elytris 

 elongato-ovatis post medium latioribus, versus basin sensim angustatis, margine basali arcuato, angulo 

 humerali paullo producto, apice sinuatis, dorso tenuiter striatis, interstitiis planis 3° eonspicue tripunctato ; 

 tarsis subtus subdense spinosis, posticis utrinque sulcatis, articulo 4° emarginato, lobis acutis sequalibus, 

 5° baud ciliato ; episternis posticis quam in G. sphodro'ide paullo longioribus. 



Long. 5 1 lin. 



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Colpodes ebeninus, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. 310. 





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Elongato-ovatus, dorso postice gradatim declivo et planato ; niger nitidus, elytris cupreo-seneis ; capite sat elon- 

 gate, genis pone oculos sat dilatatis gradatim angustatis, collo subconstricto, foveis frontalibus magnis, 

 profundis ; thorace quadrato, polito, antice curvatim angustato (baud dilatato), angulis anticis rotundatis 

 collo approximatis, postice vix angustato, angulis rectis, margine laterali explanato-reflexo ; elytris prope 

 apicem valde sinuato-angustatis, apice ipso (baud procul a sutura) valde spinoso, basi latis, bumeris rotun- 

 datis, striatis, interstitiis planissimis, 3° tripunctato ; tarsis gracilibus, subtus sat pilosis, posterioribus 

 extus sulcatis, articulo 4° emarginato, lobo exteriore elongato, pedum anteriorum longe bilobato ; episternis 

 posticis brevibus et latis sed postice sat angustatis. 



Long. 6| lin. 



Sab. Costa Eica {Br. Horn, coll. Bates). 



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