1935 j 
West Indian Carabidse 
191 
Colpodes christophe n. sp. 
Very large, rather broad and depressed ; black, moderate- 
ly shining, elytra very slightly duller; appendages piceous. 
Head barely more than 3/5 width prothorax; eyes small 
but somewhat prominent; gense oblique, slightly convex, 
not prominent; 2 supra-ocular setse each side; antennae 
rather short, 9th or 10th joint reaching base prothorax; 
mentum tooth finely pointed. Prothorax large, subquad- 
rate, 1/5 or 1/6 wider than long; base squarely truncate, 
not quite ^4 wider than apex; sides slightly arcuate ante- 
riorly, broadly, slightly sinuate before posterior angles, 
which are almost right, with apices very narrowly rounded ; 
side margins broadly but not strongly explanate, each with 
2 setae; base finely margined, apex not; disk rather flat, 
impunctate, depressed posterio-laterally to form moderately 
deep, not very well defined foveae which extend anteriorly 
to or before middle ; other impressed lines as usual. Elytra 
not much ( $ not quite 1/5, $ not quite 3/10) wider than 
prothorax, moderately convex; sides arcuate-subparallel 
at middle, slightly sinuate before apices, which are nar- 
rowly, subindependently rounded; humeri distinct; striae 
somewhat impressed, entire, not punctate except for usual 
3 dorsal punctures attached to 3rd interval ; intervals some- 
what convex. Metepisterna with outer edge somewhat 
longer than anterior; lower surface not punctate. Tibiae 
not sulcate on outer edge; posterior tarsi finely grooved 
above externally, less strongly so internally, 4th joint mod- 
erately deeply emarginate, not distinctly lobed; anterior 
tarsi finely grooved at sides in $ , not in $ ; $ posterior 
trochanters about 3/5 length femora, suddenly narrowed 
just before middle of femoral length, thence very slender 
to apex ; $ trochanters slightly less than % length femora, 
but with apices subtuberculate at point corresponding to $ 
apical process. Length 17-18 ; width 6-6.2 mm. 
Haiti: holotype $ (M. C. Z. no. 22001) and 1 $ para- 
type from summit plateau of Mt. Basil, northern Haiti, 
4,700 ft., Sept. 9, 1934; under stones in a tiny garden re- 
cently cleared from cloud forest. 
This is one of the largest and finest species of the whole 
great genus Colpodes. 
