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This and the 



preceding species belong but imperfectly to the genus, receding 







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ANISODACTYLUS. 



Anisodactylus , Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. iv. p. 132; Horn, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1880, p. 162. 



As defined by the authors above cited this genus will prove to be one of great extent 

 and wide distribution. It abounds in species in Tropical Africa and the warmer parts 

 of Asia, and is well represented in temperate North America and Europe. More than 

 100 species are known ; but they much require revision. 









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1. Anisodactylus rotundangulus. (Tab. III. fig. 14.) 



Anisodactylus rotundangulus, Bates, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 589. 



" Elongatus, niger, modice nitidus, pedibus piceis, antennis palpisque piceo-rufis ; thorace lateribus arcuatis, 

 angiitis posticis late rotundatis, foveis posticis latis, modice impressis ; elytris apice hand sinuatis, supra 

 simpliciter striatis, impunctatis. 



" Long. 7-74 lin. S 2 " 











Hal. Mexico, near the capital (Flohr), Orizaba (Salle), Oaxaca (Edge). 



The terminal spur of the anterior tibise is dilated interiorly near the base ; and the 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi shorter than the second and third taken together. 













2. Anisodactylus anthr acinus. 



Harpalus anthr acinus , Dejean, Spec. G&i. Col. iv. p. 369 1 (1829). 

 Anisodactylus dilatatus, Say, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. iv. 1834, p. 431 2 . 



Hah. Mexico 1 2 , Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle), Toluca (Salle), Hacienda de Bleados, 

 San Luis Potosi (Dr. Palmer), near the city (Flohr), Jalapa (Hbge). 



This species, which resembles in form a large Oodes, varies much in the outline of 







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erne forms are, on the 



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widest in front, before the middle, and, on the other, those in which it is curvilinearly 

 narrowed from the base to the anterior angles. Say described the intermediate state, 

 in which the sides are regularly but moderately arcuated. The anthraeinus of Dejean, 

 of which I have examined the type, has the thorax anteriorly narrowed, but less so 

 than an extreme variety named amaroides (Sturm) in the Salle collection. A variety 

 narrower in all its parts bears the MS. name of subangustior in M. Oberthur's collection. 

 All forms were found together near Mexico by Mr. Flohr. 















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NOTIOBIA. 





Notiobia, Perty, Del. An. Art. Bras. p. 14 (1830). 

 Rhagodactylus, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 431. 



A genus peculiar to Tropical America, distinguished from its allies by the great size 











and prominence 



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