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Show 1878.J MR. BATES ON NEW GEOOEPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 587 EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. (N.B. All the figures are of the natural size, except where the contrary PLATE XXXV. Fig. 1. Deiphobe laticeps, p. 580. Male, with wings extended. 2. Deiphobe 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, J. 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, $. The head and pronotum. 2 a. One of the cerci from the side, enlarged. 3. Hierodula (Bhombodera) butleri, p. 580, $ 3- Head, pronotum, and left fore leg of a female. 3 a. The right fore coxa, from the inside. 3 b. Head and pronotum of a small male. 4. Hierodula (Rhombodera) atricoxis, p. 582, $ 3- 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 (Rhombodera.) fratricida, p. 581, 3- Head, pronotum, and left fore leg. 5 a. Right fore coxa, from the inside. 6. Hierodula (Rhombodera) pustulifera, p. 583, $. Head, pronotum, and left fore leg. 6 a. Right fore coxa, from the inside. 7. Hierodida (Rhombodera) taprobana, p. 583, £. Head, pronotum, and right fore leg. 7 a. Left fore coxa, from the inside. 8. Creobroter pictipennis, p. 585, $. Head, pronotum, and fore legs. 4. O n new Genera and Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera from Central America. By H. W . B A T E S , F.L.S. [Received May 11, 1878.] The following diagnoses of new Central-American Coleoptera, of the families Cicindelidse and Carabidse (Geodephaga), are preparatory to the full descriptions which will be given in the work now preparing by Messrs. Godman and Salvin, entitled 'Biologia America*- Centralis.' In that work figures will be given of all the more characteristic forms. Family CTCINDELID^E. TETRACHA IGNEA. T. carolinae forma similis, paullo magisangustata, supra igneo-cuprea; epistomate, thoracis el elytrorum lateribus viridi-eeneis ; grosse confertim usque ad apices punctatis, macula apicali pallida, angusta, antice gradatim paullo dilatata; antennis articulis l^subtus nigro-lineatis; femoribus quatuor posticis apice late 3$* |
