Monographie der südamerikan. Camarien (Coleopt. Heterom.) 121 



8. Camaria parallela Champ. 



Biol. Centr. Am. IV, 1, 1886, p. 246, t. 11, f. 4. 



Elongate ovate, moderately convex, rather narrow, brownish- 

 bronze, shining. Head finely, shallowly, and sparingly punctured, a 

 long oblique groove on each side (forming a continuation of the 

 lateral limit of the epistoma) extending posteriorly as far as the 

 eyes and continued transversel}^ across the intraocular region, en- 

 closing a large triangulär flattened and depressed space ; antennae 

 long, slender; prothorax transverse, the sides rather strongly 

 margined, broadly and very shallowly emarginate a little before 

 the middle, scarcely narrowing anteriorly, straight behind, the 

 anterior angles broadly rounded, the hind angles subrectangular, 

 the base bisinuate, the diso with a shallow rounded Impression 

 in the middle behind the surface, very shallowly, finely, and 

 sparingl}^ punctm-ed; scutellum shallowly punctured; elytra long, 

 parallel to beyond the middle, the humeri swollen and shallowly 

 emarginate, punctate-striate, the Striae deeply impressed and very 

 closely, finely and shallowly punctured, the interstices feebl}' 

 convex, almost impunctate; legs reddish-brown or bronzy, the 

 knees and tarsi bluish-black; the slightly curved anterior and 

 intermediate tibiae dilated (the intermediate pair ver}' broadly 

 and abruptly) at their inner apices, and the three basal joints 

 of the anterior tarsi broadly dilated in the male; prosternum 

 narrow, acuminate, horizontal, the apex much produced and 

 received b}- the deeply concave V-shapecl mesosternum; beneath 

 shining, brownish-aeneus, the ventral surface longitudinally 

 wrinkled. 



Length 23,5 millim. {<^). 



Hab. Panama; Buguba (Champion), Chiriqui (Tratsch). 



This species is allied to the undescribed C. aeraria Dej., of 

 South- America; in the structure of the head it approaches C. clan- 

 destina Pasc, from Parä. 



Two examples, both males. 



5. Gattung Blapida. 



Perty, Del. anim. art. 1830, p. 58. — Gast. Hist. nat. II. 1840, 

 p. 232. — Lacord. Gen. Col. V, 1859, p. 425. 



Die Gattung Blapida enthält nach meinem Katalog (Col. Cat. 

 pt. 28, p. 496) 5 beschriebene Arten. Seither hat Pic 6 neue hinzu- 

 gefügt. Außerdem gehören die Arten Camaria austera Berg und 

 Camaria biaculeata Fairm. zu Blapida, so daß die Gattung gegen- 

 wärtig 13 Arten umfaßt. Leider ist es nicht möglich, aus den un- 

 gemein flüchtigen und kurzen Beschreibungen von Pic sichere 

 Deutungen zu wagen, geschweige denn, sie in der dichotomischen 

 Tabelle unterzubringen, sie sind schlimme Grossoware, wie nahezu 

 sämtliche Beschreibungen von Tenebrioniden, die dieser Herr bisher 

 veröffentlichte. Da nun während des Krieges und wahrscheinlich 

 noch einige Zeit nachher nicht daran zu denken ist, die Original- 



