36 ADEPHAGA. 
Head finely punctulate, pale red. ‘Thorax red, more or less infuscate about the 
middle, with a short channel on the disk, and some very short impressions or scratches 
rather irregularly distributed over the surface; near the posterior angle is a small space 
on which the impressions are more closely placed than they are elsewhere. ‘The striz 
on the elytra are moderately fine; the first, third, fifth, and seventh are longer than the 
others, and only disappear a short distance before the apex ; the first stria is separated 
from the suture by about twice the space that intervenes between it and the second 
stria; the eighth stria is placed some distance internal to the shoulder, and is much 
abbreviated behind, its terminal portion being, moreover, broken into short isolated 
impressions; from the shoulder there may be traced backwards some short scratches, 
forming, as it were, the rudiments of a ninth stria. 
The male has the front and middle tarsi rather broadly dilated, and furnished 
beneath with conspicuous palettes. The female is unknown. 
The specimens described are badly preserved, and the colour as above given may not 
prove to be a very accurate interpretation. 
5. Copelatus solitarius. 
(2.) Oblongo-ovalis, angustulus, ferrugineus, thorace in medio obscuro, elytris fuscis, basi apiceque cum an- 
tennis pedibusque testaceis; prothorace subtiliter striguloso obsoleteque punctulato ; elytris punctulatis, 
striis octo impressis, harum secunda quartaque postice valde abbreviatis, ceteris elongatis. 
Long. 24, lat. 13 lin. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé). 
Head red, with the vertex finely strigulose. Thorax infuscate red, with the sides 
pale, the surface with fine, short, and distant scratches, wanting on the middle. On 
the wing-cases the second and fourth strize are much shorter than the others, extend- 
ing only one lialf, or less, of the distance from the base to the apex; the first stria is 
about the same distance from the suture as it is from the third stria; it and the second 
and fourth stris are a little finer than the others; the second and fourth striz are, as it 
were, interpolated between the others, the interstices adjoining them being narrower 
than the contiguous interstices: with the exception of these two striz, the others are 
of nearly one length, except that the eighth is a little shorter behind than the rest. 
At the base the striz are a little irregular in their lengths: the third and fifth extend 
quite to the base; but the others only commence at short though variable distances 
behind it. The elytra are feebly punctate, but are entirely destitute of strigosities. 
The species is described from a single female. It has not at present any near ally. 
6. Copelatus proximus. 
Oblongo-ovalis, angustus, fusco-piceus, capite, thorace, antennis pedibusque rufis ; elytris ad basin et ad apicem 
testaceis, striis decem conspicuis, alternis multo brevioribus, octava tantum ad basin relicta; coxis posticis 
fortiter strigosis. 
Long. 24, lat. 1 lin. 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, San Geronimo (Champion). 
