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COPTODERA. 



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C.flavodisca may be distinguished in all its varieties by having two fine subparallel 

 plicae (with some more irregular lines) on each side of the forehead close to the eye. 



11. Coptodera poecila. (Tab. vil. fig. 18.) 



Subovata, convexa, mfo-testacea, palpis (apicibus exceptis), antennarum articulis 3° et 4°, genibus et tibiis 

 fusco-nigris ; elytris nigro-seneis plaga magna discoidea communi marginibus multosinuatis, medio nigro- 

 seneo maculata, flavo-testacea ; antennis brevibus robustisj capite (foveis exceptis) lsevi; thorace valde 

 transverso, lateribus medio paullulum rotundatis, angiitis posticis rectis; eljtris striato-punctulatis, 



inter stitiis planissimis. 



Long. 2\ lin. 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui [Champion). 



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A single example, which appears to belong to Coptodera rather than to Lelis, the 

 tarsal claws being slender and feebly denticulate. The elytra have a peculiar and 



elegant pattern, the usual yellow belts being fused into one large discoidal patch, which 

 is indented and spotted with the blackish-aeneous ground-colour. There is a large 



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quadrate sutural spot in the middle, united to the basal border by a narrow sutural 

 line, and a small roundish spot on the disk on each side ; and the irregularities of the 

 margin of the yellow area consist, on its anterior margin of an indentation in the 



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middle, on the posterior margin of two on each side ; laterally the yellow indents the 

 dark border in two broadish lobes. The striae are scarcely at all impressed ; and the 



elytra are, for this genus, unusually convex. 



12. Coptodera cupreotincta. (Tab. VII. fig. 17.) 



Coptodera cupreotincta, Bates, Ent. Monthly Mag. vi. (1869) p. 73 \ 

 Coptodera amazonica, Chaudoir, Mem. s. 1. Thyreopt. &c. p. 90 2 . 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, David, Bugaba 

 ( Champion) . 



Chontales specimens differ in no respect from others from the Amazons, except in 

 the darker metallic colour of disk of head and thorax ; but Panama examples are all 

 larger and relatively longer. All, however, agree in having a long yellow line on the 



eighth interstice in the anterior fascia. 



13. Coptodera tessellata 



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Hab. Mexico (Haag de Rutenberg x ). — South America, Brazil? 1 . 



According to the author, differs from cupreotincta (amazonica) only in being larger 

 and in wanting the yellow lines on the eighth interstice. Without the latter feature 

 I should have had no hesitation in referring the species to the Central-American form 

 of cupreotincta. 







