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Cascelius* Cerotalis* and 



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like the female. This peculiarity sufficiently 



equivalent groups of the same rank named Patellimani, Simplicimani, Quadrimani, &c. 



by the old authors ; and the position of the subdivision at the commencement of the 



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great section — for instance, the glabrous surface of the four basal joints of the antennae, 

 a character which does not reappear henceforward in the long series of forms belonging 

 to the second division of this great family. The genus Cnemalobu.% hitherto included 

 in the group Broscidae, must be excluded both from the subdivision and the subfamily, 

 as it possesses cartilaginous scales in pairs on the palms of the dilated joints. 











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No member of the family Broscidae* has hitherto been detected in Central America; 

 but I refer, though not without much hesitation, to the same subdivision the subfamily 



Peleciinse, of which, many representat 



Mexico, and to which the Afr 



genus Disphcericus also 



The form of the head and palp 



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different from any thing known in the Broscidae 



tarsal structure approxi- 



mates closely to that exhibited in the males of the Broscid genus Cerotalis, with 

 important difference that in Peleciinse the structure is the same in both sexes. 



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Subfamily PELECIINM 



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Twenty-four species of this remarkable genus 

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1. Pelecium aterrimum. (Tab. III. fig. 1.) 





Pelecium aterrimum, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. p. 336 . 

 Pelecium nitidum, Chaudoiiv, Berl. entom. Zeitschr. 1861, p. 129 2 . 



Eab. Mexico *, Orizaba 2 , Jacale (Salle), Las Vigas (Edge). 



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