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Catascopus. Colours metallic, brilliant, without pale markings. 
Tropical Asia, Australia, Africa, Ame 
MiscELTJS. Body elongate, colours black ; facies of Feronia. 
Tropical I 
I doubt whether Eucheila, Rhomlodera, and Scopodes can bet 
eluded in the group, owing to the widely different form of the labil 
and in Eucheila, the very large, horny ligula ; but other geiE 
some of them apparently undescribed, will have to be incorpor^ 
Mormolyce, included by Laeordaire in the PericalincB, constitud 
distinct sub-family. 
CoPTODEEA POLTGONA, n. sp. Testaceo-rufa, elytris nigris, mam 
lateralifasciisque duahus angulatis, apud suturam laud interrd 
a margine lined nigra separatis,flavo-testaceis : thorace parvo,M 
hus late marginatis, utrinqite hi-angulatis ; elytris latis, c'onvi 
p>rofunde striatis, striis vice punctatis. Long. 8-9 millim. j 
elytr. 4i millim. ? . 
A species resembling Eurycoleus in the shape of its thorax and the large • 
of its elytra ; the latter, however, are deeply striate like the majority of Coptod 
Bright testaceous-red, with the sole exception of the elytra, which are black v 
the lateral margins and two irregular belts of a yellower-testaceous hue, om 
one-third and the other at three-fourths their length ; these belts are not in 
rupted at the suture, but do not reach the pale lateral margin, being terminf 
by the ninth interstice, which is black. The head with the eyes is rather narro 
than the thorax ; the labrum is not much elongated, but about as long as bro 
the antennal joints are cylindrical, and the surface of the head is polished i 
impunctate, with a distinct curved fovea in the middle of the forehead. ' 
thorax is very small in proportion to the elytra ; it is widened from the apex 
nearly the middle, then narrowed in an incurved line to the hind angles, wb 
are situated at a distance from the actual base, the latter being straight or 'eve 
little emarginate in front of the yellow scutellum. The elytra are wFde and soi 
what convex, the shoulders broadly rounded and advanced, the sides with a br 
flat margin, and the apex obtusely truncated ; the surface is deeply sub-puncts 
striated, with convex and very finely alutaceous interstices ; the two pale denta 
belts leave three black belts of the ground colour, the basal and middle one be 
of about the same width as the pale fasciae, and the apical one forming a lai 
black spot on each side the suture. 
Taken at Ega, Upper Amazons, running amongst fungi on t 
bark of a dead tree in company with JEurycolei and Stenognath 
melanarius. 
COPTODERA LATiPENNis, n. sp. Testacco-rufa, elytris flavis, fasc 
duahus dentatis nigris, altera lasali, altera pone medium ; tliora 
ut in G. polygona, parvo, utrinque hi-angulato, elytris profun 
striatis, striis minute punctatis. Long. 8 millim. Lat. elytr. ^ 
millim. $ . 
