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New West Indian Carabidx 
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and that the body is less obviously pubescent, more shining, 
and not spotted. We possess a single specimen of C. armata 
(Cast.) from St. Augustine, Trinidad. This species is fig- 
ured by Kollar (Ann. Wiener Mus. 1, 1836, t. 31, figs 3a, b) 
and both previously known species have been accurately 
described and compared by Chaudoir (Ann. Soc. Ent. Bel- 
gique 21, 1878, 167-9). The present species differs from 
them, i. e. from Coptia armata (Cast.) and C. marginicollis 
Chd., in having a differently shaped prothorax, less nar- 
rowed anteriorly, with the basal spines better developed. 
46. Coptia effeminata n. sp. (PL 5, fig. 6.) 
Black, rather shining, with inconspicuous pale pubes- 
cence; antennae (except three darker basal joints), palpi, 
and tarsi brownish. Head nearly smooth except bi-im- 
pressed between eyes; clypeus impressed each side, trans- 
verse arcuate line faint; mentum shallowly emarginate, 
with a broad short tooth in emargination ; tooth truncate, 
even slightly emarginate apically; antennae with apex of 
eighth joint reaching about to base of prothorax, third joint 
slightly longer than following one. Prothorax broad, nar- 
rowed anteriorly, emarginate in front, unidentate (not bi- 
spinose) each side of base; lateral margin gradually obliter- 
ated anteriorly, not deeply channeled; disk somewhat de- 
pressed near posterior angles, coarsely punctate, moderately 
pubescent. Elytra above about as in preceding species. 
Lower surface shining, mostly inconspicuously pubescent; 
epipleurse below humeri with two widely separated rows of 
coarse punctures; all ventral segments with very coarse 
punctuation across their entire width. Length ±8%; width 
+ 4 mm. 
Holotype 9 (Museum of Comparative Zoology no. 19510) 
from Soledad (near Cienfuegos) Cuba, Nov. 9, taken at 
light at “Harvard House.” Paratypes: 1 $ (sex deter- 
mined by dissection) from Central Jaronu, Cuba, July 10, 
at light, L. C. Scaramuzza (United States National 
Museum) ; 1 (sex not determined) from Baragua, Cuba, 
Nov. 12, at light, C. F. Stahl (U. S. N. M.) ; 1 (sex not de- 
