COPIDITA. 147 
Hab. Guatemata, Volcan de Atitlan, Pantaleon (Champion); Panama, Volcan de 
Chiriqui (Champion). ; 
Var. a. Smaller (6 millim.) and less elongate ; the head and prothorax more coarsely, the latter also more 
densely, punctured ; above and beneath and the legs and antenne testaceous, the raised lines and suture 
of the elytra paler. 
Hab. Guatemata, Mirandilla (Champion). 
One male example. 
Var. 8. The head narrowly infuscate between the eyes; the prothorax with a large piceous-brown patch on 
each side before the middle, the elytra brown with the suture flavo-testaceous. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
One female example. 
Var. y. Larger (10 millim.); the head and prothorax flavo-testaceous, the latter with an angulated brownish 
marking on each side of the disc anteriorly ; the elytra piceous-brown, and with the raised lines less 
distinct. 
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Hab. Mexico, Santecomapan (Sal/é). Gana rar, m Uipe-arwo 
One example. 
This is a widely distributed and variable species. The description is taken from the 
numerous specimens from the Volcan de Atitlan. In well-marked examples the dark 
patch on each side of the thorax in front assumes the form of an eye-like spot, and 
there is often a spot in front of this and another one external to it; in some specimens 
the thorax is fuscous, with a central vitta and three spots placed one below the. other 
on each side (the hinder one much the largest) flavous or testaceous. The last joint of 
the maxillary palpi is long and cultriform, and much longer in the male than in the 
female; the mandibles are bifid. In some examples the suture and the raised lines 
on the elytra have an interrupted faint fuscous line on either side, this line formed by a 
series of very shallow longitudinal impressions which are fuscous within. Our figure is 
taken from a typical male example from Pantaleon. 
5. Copidita palpalis. 
Closely allied to C. maculicollis and differing thus: the head infuscate between and behind the eyes; the 
prothorax with the sides very broadly, and a narrow median vitta towards the base (the vitta confluent 
on each side with the lateral marking in one example), infuscate; the elytra as shining as the prothorax, 
with a series of shallow oblong fuscous impressions along the suture and on each side of the raised 
lines; the last joint of the maxillary palpi very elongate and cultriform in the male. 
Length 81-9 millim. (<d.) 
- Hab. Guatemata, Capetillo (Champion). 
Two examples. This insect is very closely allied to C. maculicollis, but it can 
scarcely be treated as a variety of that species. The apical joint of the maxillary 
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