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BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA. 

















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Class INSECTA 









Order COLEOPTERA 





Tribe ADEPHAGA. 



Fam. CICINDELmE. 





TETRACHA. 





Tetracha, Hope, Col. Manual, ii. p. 7. 



Forty-five species of this brilliantly metallic-coloured genus of tiger beetles have been 



described. The majority 



Tropical- American 



species occurring in temperate 





them part of the continent, and others passing beyond the trop 





the south, though no species is found in Chili, as might be 



sly inferred from 



the specific name chilensis borne by a species found on the Pacific coast of Peru 



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Tropical America, Australia is the richest in species 



other r>arts of the world the 



genus occurs only in a small number of species of large size in Africa and on the borders 







of the Mediterranean and Caspian, one (T. ewphratica) extending to the southern littoral 

 of Spain. 





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1. Tetracha Carolina 



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Hab. North America, Atlantic States. — Mexico, Michoacan, Chiapas, Putla (Salle) 

 Oaxaca (Edge) ; Guatemala, Eio Naranjo (Champion). 

















Var. cyanides 







suturalem vix atbingente. 



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Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge 















"When a long series of Mexican and United States' examples of the type form 





























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