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ADEPHAGA. 









Although Herr Hog 



ously at Oaxaca, he did not meet with 









species there. It appears to be common near the city of Mexico. Its essential charac- 

 ters are the great number of piliferous punctures on the elytra and the abdomen, the 

 terminal segment of the latter having five on each side. 











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ASPIDOGLOSSA. 











Aspidoglossa, Putzeys, Monogr. Clivinides, p. 108. 



Like the preceding genus, peculiar to America. Twenty 



described. 



species have been 





1. Aspidoglossa torrida. 



Aspidoglossa torrida, Putzeys, Monogr. Clivinides, p. 113; id. Revis. Gen. p. 216 



Hab. Mexico. 











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Not in the Salle collection. 







2. Aspidoglossa mexicana. 



Clivina mexicana, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1837, iii. p. 18 l ; Putzeys, Revis. Gen. p. 217 2 . 



Sab. Mexico \ Tlacotalpam 2 (Salle), Oaxaca (Edge). 



The majority of Herr Hoge's Oaxaca specimens are 3 lines in length, and agree 

 therefore in size with the mexicana originally described by Chaudoir. With them, 

 however, are a few others only 1\ lines long. The character given by Putzeys, " inter- 

 stitio 3 i0 9-punctato," is not to be detected in any of the scores of examples I have 

 examined; the setiferous punctuation of the interstice does not differ from that of 



A. curt a and allies. 







3. Aspidoglossa distincta. (Tab. II. fig. 21.) 



Aspidoglossa distincta, Putzeys, Revis. Gen. p. 217 \ 

 Aspidoglossa mexicana (Chaud.), id. Monogr. Clivinides, p. 217. 



Sab. Mexico, Yucatan \ Teapa (Salle). 



I fail to 



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alid difference between this species and A. mexicana 



M. Salle's specimen or in M. Putzeys' description. 



4. Aspidoglossa curta. 



Aspidoglossa curta, Putzeys, Revis. Gen. p. 220 \ 



Bab. Guatemala, San Geronimo, Guatemala city (Champion)-, Nicaragua 1 (Salle), 



Chon tales (Janson). 



Except the smaller average size (2-J- lines), there is very little perceptible difference 

 between this species and A. mexicana; the interstices appear to be more convex, 

















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