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towards the sides behind the base there is some very fine sexual sculpture. There is 
no submarginal stria. 
The species has no near ally. 
2. Copelatus laccophilinus. 
Ovalis, parum convexus, ferrugineus, thorace in medio elytrisque fuscis, his testaceo signatis ; corpore superne 
levigato, infra coxis versus latera abdominisque basi strigulosis. 
Long. 23, lat. 12 lin. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000-3000 feet (Champion). 
This species is very different from any other Copelatus yet discovered, and much 
resembles a Laccophilus on account of the smooth upper surface, on which even the 
serial punctures are fine. The resemblance to the eastern genus Lacconectes is still 
greater ; but the generic characters drawn from the coxal lobes leave it a true Copelatus. 
I have but a single individual before me, of the female sex. The antenne are reddish 
yellow. The prothorax is broadly yellow at the sides, infuscate in the middle; the 
surface is smooth; but at the sides some excessively fine scratches can be detected. The 
elytra are very smooth, and the serial punctures are very fine, but some of those near 
the base are a little elongate ; the colour is fuscous or smoky, but at the extreme base 
is a transverse fascia extending neither to the outer margin nor to the suture; near the 
side, about the middle, is a longitudinal pale mark, and some distance in front of the 
apex there is a very obscure transverse fascia of isolated pale marks, and the apex itself 
is pale. The legs are all reddish yellow. 
3. Copelatus mundus. 
Copelatus mundus, Sharp, Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc. n.s. ii. p. 574. 
Hab. Muxico, Cordova (Sallé), Cerro de Plumas (Hége). 
The male of this species has the front and middle tarsi broadly dilated ; its anterior 
tibie are destitute of notch; near the sides of the thorax there are a few very short 
scratches or impressions. 
The species was described by me from a single female. In the specimens now before 
-me the under surface is red, but more or less infuscate, especially on the terminal 
ventral segments; probably in quite fresh undecayed specimens the under surface is 
reddish yellow. 
4, Copelatus sallei. 
( 3.) Oblongo-ovalis, ferrugineus, elytris, antennis, pedibus, elytrorum basi, apice plagaque indeterminata versus 
latera testaceis ; prothorace sparsim brevissime striguloso ; elytris punctulatis, striis octo sat subtilibus, 
alternis ad apicem brevioribus, stria octava, a margine remota, postice disintegrata et magis abbreviata. 
Long. 3%, lat. 14 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé). 
FF 2 
