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1. Eyes coarsely granulated, moderately large. 
* Last joint of the maxillary palpi cultriform or subcultriform. 
1. Copidita panamensis. (Tab. VII. fig. 2.) 
Very elongate, opaque, brownish-yellow or yellowish-brown, thickly clothed with rather coarse yellowish 
pubescence. Head densely and finely punctured, more sparsely so in front, the eyes and the tips of the 
mandibles black or piceous, the eyes comparatively small; antenne testaceous, joints 1 and 3 about 
equal in length, 11 strongly constricted a little beyond the middle; prothorax longer than broad, the 
sides rounded anteriorly and converging behind, the disc broadly concave in front, largely depressed. 
in the middle behind, and with a large oblique depression (shallow in one example, deeper in the other) 
on either side anteriorly extending to the anterior angles, the anterior margin considerably raised, the 
surface densely and finely punctured (a rather broad longitudinal space on the middle of the disc 
impunctate in one example); elytra long, broadest beyond the middle, closely and more coarsely 
punctured than the prothorax, and with three distinct feebly raised lines on the disc and one at the sides 
extending nearly to the apex, the suture also raised; beneath testaceous, densely punctured; legs 
testaceous, the extreme apices of the femora piceous. 
Length 11-113 millim. (9.) 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Two examples. This is a comparatively large species, brownish-yellow in colour, 
with the tips of the femora darker; the thorax is broadly concave in front and 
depressed on either side of the disc before the middle; the elytra have three raised 
lines on the disc and the suture also raised. The apical joint of the maxillary palpi 
is long and subcultriform, and the mandibles are bifid. C. panamensis is not 
very closely allied to any other species here noticed from Central America; but 
an allied undescribed one from Venezuela is known to me, and the following comes 
near it. 
2. Copidita scabrosa. 
Moderately elongate, opaque, brown, thickly clothed with rather coarse pubescence. Head very closely and 
somewhat coarsely punctured, the eyes and the tips of the mandibles piceous, the eyes rather small ; 
antenne testaceous, rather stout, joint 1 about as long as 3 (11 missing); prothorax longer than broad, 
the sides strongly rounded anteriorly, slightly emarginate in front just before the rather prominent 
anterior angles, and rapidly converging behind, the disc broadly concave in front, flattened in the middle 
behind, and largely and deeply depressed on either side before the middle, the anterior margin considerably 
raised and with_a triangular prolongation on the inner side in the centre, the surface densely and sub- 
rugulosely punctured ; elytra comparatively short, rather more coarsely and more rugulosely punctured 
than the prothorax, with three raised lines or coste on the disc and one at the sides, the suture 
also raised, the latter and the coste accompanied on either side by a faint fuscous line; beneath 
testaceous, densely punctured ; legs rather stout, testaceous, the extreme apices of the femora a little 
darker. 
Length 64 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 
One example. Very much smaller and less elongate than C. panamensis; the thorax 
and elytra densely and subrugulosely punctured, the latter less opaque, more convex, 
relatively shorter, and with the raised lines on the disc more distinct. In the dense 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. 1V. Pt. 2, January 1890. UU 
