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New Paussid Beetle 
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Type a unique (M. C. Z. no. 22,502) from Lancetilla, 
Honduras, collected by Dr. Marston Bates. 
Lack of an occipital swelling apparently distinguishes this 
from the three previously described species of Homopterus. 
Otherwise the relatively narrow form and elongate antennse 
ally the new species to brasiliensis Westw. and bolivianus 
Kolbe, although it differs from both in having a more nearly 
quadrate (less cordate) prothorax with more weakly arcuate 
sides. Hondurensis differs further from brasiliensis (but 
resembles bolivianus) in the overlapping of the edges of the 
antennal segments. I do not know either brasiliensis or 
Fig. 1. Homopterus hondurensis n. sp. (type) : outlines of pro- 
thorax, head, and right antenna, and of left middle leg from in front; 
from camera-lucida drawings. 
bolivianus except from the literature, but the former has 
been figured in detail several times, and the latter is care- 
fully compared with it by Kolbe. I have, however, seen a 
specimen of Homopterus steinbachi Kolbe, from Colombia. 
A sketch of the important segments of one antenna of this 
specimen has been compared with the type of steinbachi, 
and pronounced the same, through the kindness of Prof. 
Kolbe and the good offices of Dr. Walther Horn. 
