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ADEPHAGA. 





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





Panama, Obispo *. — South America, Santarem Amazons (Bates). 



Motschulsky's description is remarkably clear and accurate, with the exception that he 

 seems to have mistaken the female for the male, and has consequently given an erroneous 



of the dilatation of the anterior tarsi in the 



The dilatation of the 



joints in the male resembles that of Oodes, the first joint being of the same length and 





second, but 



the base 



The 



species 



from 2 to 2f lines. 



The 



face is impunctate 



slightly 



in both 



sexes. 



2. Anatrichis alutaceus. 



Ovatus, piceo-niger, supra opacus, elytris subtilissime ac densissime pimctulatis, antennis basi, partibus oris 



■nA/i;Kiionno £nlfT/v_f oof q nni'a . fibroma TYi q ro-inirYns (rwrnoimm ■nnstiris^ filvtronrmmiA eranleiiris T)iceo-rufis. 



Long. 2| lin. 



5. 



Hah. Mexico, Cordova (Salle). 



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Similar in form and colours to A. piceus, but the thorax decidedly longer and more 

 ,rrowed towards the head, and the elytra with interstices minutely punctulate or 



sh 



b 



the striae are also more sharply 



In A. piceus the 1st and 2nd 



elytral striae terminate at the base in a single large rounded ocellated fo\ 

 A. alutaceus there is only a vague depression in the same situation. 



In 



3. Anatrichis longulus. 



Angustus, oblongus, nigro-piceus, nitidus, antennis, palpis pedibus piceo-rufis ; thorace transversim quadrato, 



antice paullo magis quam postiee angustato, angulis posticis obtusis, supra foveola utrinque basali brevi 

 profunda ; elytris oblongis, convexis, acute striatis, striis basin vix attingentibus, foveola rotunda prope 

 basin striarum prima? et secundse. 



Long. 21 lin. $ . 



Hah. Guatemala, Paso Antonio (Champion). 



Although this species departs from the short oval form of most of its congeners, and 

 is founded on the female only, there can be no doubt of its belonging to the genus, 



judging from the relative shortness of 



.tennal joint, the great length of the 



minal joint of the maxillary palpi, and the prominent ey 





Subfam. LICMWM. 



DICGELUS 







Diccelus, Bonelli, Mem. Acad. Turin, 1813, p. 446. 



This fine g 



is one of the characteristic forms of the Coleopt 



fauna of 



temperate North Amei 



twenty 



species 



hav 



been 



ded. all from the 



United States. The following Mexican species is the first known to occur beyond the 



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