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CALOPH^ENA. 



Calophana, Klug, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. x. p. 295. 



Cordistes, Latreille, Hist. Nat. et Icon. Col. Eur. i. pp. 77, 126. 



Of this well marked and handsome genus, peculiar to Tropical America, twenty-eight 

 species have been described. It was classed by Lacordaire and Chaudoir in the same 

 group as Galerita and Drypta ; but Dr. Horn has recently shown good reason why it 

 should be removed from that position, and restored it to the Odacanthinee group, in which 



it was originally placed by Latreille. 



It agrees with the Odacanthinse and differs from 



the Dryptinse in the bisetose penultimate joint of the labial palpi. The tarsal structure, 

 however, is highly peculiar, and resembles that of neither subfamily, but seems to be 

 an extreme development of that exhibited by the Ctenodactylinse. 



l. Calophaena cruciata. (Tab. VI. fig. 22.) 



Calophcena cruciata, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 605 \ 



" C. acuminates (Oliv.) affinis. Nigro-cyanea, nitida ; elytris utrinque maculis magnis quadratis duabus 

 (interstitia sex occupantibns) albo-testaceis, basiet apiec anguste cruceque mediana nigro-cyaneis ; thorace 

 valde elongato, antice magis quam postice recte angustato ; elytris punetulato-striatis, interstitiis modice 

 convexis ; antennis articulis 5°-ll m fulvis. 



" Long. 6£ lin." 



Hah Chontales, Nicaragua (Belt \ Janson). 



2. CalophaBna laevigata. 



Calophana lavigata, Bates, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 605 \ 



" O. acuminata (01.) affinis, colore laetius cyanea. Elytris medio violaceis, striis (nisi apnd maculas albas) 

 nullomodo impressis ; thorace valde elongato, antice subrotundatim, postice sinuatim angustato ; elytris 



aculeatis, maculis utrinque duabus transversis albo-testaceis, prima interstitia 5, secunda 6 occupante. 

 " Long. 6! lin/' 



Hob. Panama *, Bugaba (Champion). 



3. CalophsBna bicincta. 



Odacantha bifasciata, Latreille, Voy. Humboldt &Bonpland, Zool. p. 175. no. 24, t. 17. f. I 1 (nom. 



prseocc). 



Cordistes bicinctus, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 291. 



Eah. Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt).— South Ameeica, Ecuador \ 



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Var. 0. ligata (Tab. VI. fig. 21). Fasciis nigris elytrorum per vittam suturalem nigram conjunctis. 



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The var. ligata has perceptibly longer elytra than the type, hut a Chontales speci- 



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