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I have before me only two immature female examples of this species. The head 
possesses a fine and rather distant punctuation, which becomes quite obsolete in front. 
The thorax shows rather numerous fine short scratches, these being, however, wanting 
on the middle, where a feeble punctuation is still visible. The striz on the elytra 
are not very fine, the two near the suture, however, being rather finer than the others ; 
the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth are elongate, of one length, extending nearly to 
the extremity ; the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth are much shorter, the latter, 
indeed, being only a very short stria near the base; the tenth is only a little more 
abbreviate than the ninth. The striz even at the base show some little differences in 
length, the first and second only commencing some little distance beyond the base ; 
there is no sexual sculpture on the elytra, except a feeble punctuation that is present 
should prove to be such. 
The species is no doubt very closely allied to the South-American C. consors, Shp., 
but is rather smaller, narrower, and more parallel, and the striz are rather deeper and 
are less regular at the base. The sculpture in the two females before me is excessively 
similar to that of the second form of female of C. consors. 
The two specimens described being immature, the colour may not be quite normal. 
7. Copelatus neglectus. 
Copelatus neglectus, Sharp, Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc. n.s. 11. p. 575. 
Hab. VENEZUELA, Cumana. 
Var. paulo major, striis subtilioribus, alternis magis abbreviatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé). 
I refer to this species with some doubt two males from Sallé’s collection. ‘The 
species is only incompletely known to me, and probably a series would show the 
Mexican specimens to possess distinctive characters. C. neglectus is one of the species 
in which there are two forms of the female, one extremely different in sculpture from 
the male, and a good deal resembling the specimens I now describe (postea, p. 38) 
under the name of C. incognitus ; indeed it strikes me as just possible that the Mexican 
males of C. neglectus may be the consorts of C. incognitus, of which otherwise the mal 
is unknown. | 
8. Copelatus debilis. 
Copelatus debilis, Sharp, Trans. Roy. Dubl. Soc. n.s. ii. p. 579. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sadlé); Guatemaua, San Geronimo, Guatemala city (Champion) ; 
Panama, David (Champion). 
9. Copelatus basalis. 
(Q.) Ovalis, ferrugineus, prothorace medio elytrisque fuscis, his apice testaceo, fasciaque basali transversa 
ferruginea ; subopacus, prothorace elytrisque crebre longitudinaliter strigulosis ; his apice levigato, striis 
