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ADEPHAGA. 



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STENOUS 























Mosc 





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Oodes, Dejean (partim), Sp. Gen. ii. p. 379. 



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The 



group 



imembered from the old g 



Oodes under the ab 



name by 











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Chaudoir is exclusively American, temp 

 been described. 



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pical. Thirteen species have 







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1. Stenous duodecimstriatus 









Mex 









Oodes humilis, Laferte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1851, p. 270 ? 



Hab. Mexico, Toxpam 1 , Cordova (Salle), Vera Cruz (Salle, Edge) ; Guatemala, Paso 

 Antonio ( Champion) ; Nicaragua (SalU). 









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2. Stenous tibialis. (Tab. III. fig. 10.) 



Amara tibialis, Chevrolat, Col. Mex. i. fasc. 2 (1834) . 

 Oodes tibialis, id. ibid. i. tabl. 



fttennu* tibialis. Chaudoir. Bull. Mosc. 1857, iii. p. 40 











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femoralis 



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Wie 







Hab. Mexico 1 , Cordova (Salle); Guatemala, Paso Antonio (Champion). 



South 







America, Peru 2 , Amazons ; West Indies, Cuba 



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amples differ 



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of Mexico 



not in the 



brighter and rather green metallic hue of the dorsal surface 







3. Stenous gratiosus. 



8. tibicdi quam maxime affinis et similis, differt praecipue thorace manifeste longiore, post medium leviter sed 

 distincte sinuato-angustato ; pedibus ut in S. tibiali albis, femoribus piceis. 







Long. 4|-4| lin. 



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Hab. Mexico, Toxpam, Tuxtla (Salle). 



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Very closely allied to S. tibialis, and difficult to distinguish from it by descript: 



It 



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a longer insect, S. tibialis not exceeding 4 lines ; and the thorax is distinctly 



differ 



shap 



having a long 



behind the middle 



that the 







hinder part appears a little narrower, and a slight appearance of dilatation is perceptible 









the middle. In colours and in the striation of the elytra there is no differ 



The 





surface is coppery brown, with the sides of thorax and elytra g 



the tibiae and tarsi 







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white, the femora pitchy black ; the 



reddish, with the three basal joints 



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paler 



On the elytra the striae 1-6 are 



;ly impressed and punctulated 



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reaching 

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the base, and 2-6 obliterated before the apex 







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