1878.] MR. BATES ON NEW GEODEPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 587 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 (N.B. All the figures are of the natural size, except where the contrary is stated. ) 



Plate XXXV. 

 Fig. 1. Beiphobe laticeps, p. 580. Male, with wings extended. 

 2. Beiphobe laticeps. Female. 



2 a. The right fore femur and tibia, from the inner side. 

 2 b. Front view of the head of female, magnified twice nat size. 



Plate XXXVI. 



Fig. 1. Archimantis monstrosa, p. 583, 2- The head, pronotum, and fore legs. 

 1 a. Front view of the head of the same. 



1 b. One of the cerci from the side, enlarged. 



2. Archimantis armata, p. 584, 2 • The head and pronotum. 



2 a. One of the cerci from the side, enlarged. 



3. Hierodula (Ehombodera) butleri, p. 580, 2 <$ . Head, pronotum, and 



left fore leg of a female. 



3 a. The right fore coxa, from the inside. 



3 b. Head and pronotuni of a small male. 



4. Hierodula {Ehombodera) atricoxi% p. 582, 2 6 ■ Head, pronotum, and 



right fore leg of a female. 



4 a. The left fore coxa, from the inside. 



4 b. Head, pronotum, and right fore leg of a male. 



5. Hierodula (Ehombodera) fratricida, p. 581, rf. Head, pronotum, and 



left fore leg. 



5 a. Right fore eoxa, from the inside. 



6. Hierodula (Ehombodera) pustulifera, p. 583, 2- Head, pronotum, and 



left fore leg. 



6 a. Right fore coxa, from the inside. 



7. Hierodula (Ehombodera) taprobanm, p. 583, 2- Head, pronotum, and 



right fore leg. 



7 a. Left fore coxa, from the inside. 



8. Creobroter pietipcnnis, p. 585, 2 • Head, pronotum, and fore legs. 



4. On new Genera and Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera 

 from Central America. By H. W. Bates, F.L.S. 



[Received May 11, 1878.] 



The following diagnoses of new Central- American Coleoptera, of 

 the families Cicindeiidee and Carabidse (Geodephaga), are preparatory 

 to the full descriptions which will be given in the work now pre- 

 paring by Messrs. Godman and Salvin, entitled 'Biologia America? 

 Centralis.' In that work figures will be given of all the more 

 characteristic forms. 



Family Cicindelid^e. 



Tetracha ignea. 



T. carolinse/orma similis , paullo may isangustata, supra igneo-cuprea; 

 epistomate, thoracis el elytrorum lateribus viridi-ceneis ; elytris 

 grosse confertim usque ad apices punctatis, macula apicali pallida, 

 angusta, untice gradatim paullo dilatata; antennis articulis l™"-4«™ 

 subtus nigro-lineatis ; femoribus quatuor pioslicis apice late 



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