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One of the forms of the subgroup to which 0. iodopleura and 0. cinctula belong ; of 



slender form and dull purplish coppery brown colour, 







>wn colour, with the usual band of bright 

 iloration along the lateral margin of each elytron exhibiting the prismatic colours ; 



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considerable width of golden being conspicuous, especially near the base and shoulders. 

 In the narrower and more cylindrical thorax, and in general colour, 0. exilis resembles 

 0. cinctula closely. The hind trochanters are dark piceous in both forms, pale only in 

 immature individuals. 



CTENOSTOMA (p. 1 



Ctenostoma ibidion (p. 18). 



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668 ; Schaum, Naturgesch. Ins. Deutschl. I. i. p. 117. 



Among the small number of species of Coleoptera recently collected by Mr. Forrer 

 the elevated districts of the Province of Durango is a species of this well-known gem 

 the first true Carabus yet found in Mexico or any part of Tropical America 



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probably not less than 400. Recent systematists separate the cluster of beautiful 









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Southern Chili, and the Carabus deckeni of Mt. Kilmanjaro near th 





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 most southerly limit probably in Southern China and, as we now find, Mexico. 













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1. Carabus forreri. (Tab. xni. fig. 5.) 









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Carabus forreri, Bates, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, ix. p. 320. 



" Elongatus, niger, subnitidus, capite lam, epistomate utrinque fovea profunda, labro medio excavato ; thorace 

 lawi, lateribus fere jequaliter arcuatis, margine explanato fortiter reflexo, angulis posticis longe productis, 

 apice obtusis ; elytris elongato-ovatis obsoletissime striato-punctulatis punctisque majoribus triplici serie ; 

 abdominis segmentis 3 apicalibus basi transversim sulcatis. 



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Of the elongate and narrow form of C. agassizi and C. tcedatus 



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quite different from either of those species, being smooth, broadly margined, and 

 approaching in shape that of C. sylvosus." 





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