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rotundatis, basi crebre punctata, marginibus fulvis ; elytris apice subfortiter sinuatis, striatis, striola scutel- 

 lari terrai, elongata, interstitiis planis versus apicem angustis et convexioribus, stria 2 a , 5 a et 7 a seriato- 



* punctatis. 



Long. 3^ lin. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Salle). 



Specimens in the Salle collection were labelled Selenophorus flavipes, Putz. 





















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Barysomus, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. iv. p. 56 (1829). 

 Oosoma, Nietner, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1857, p. 146. 



Common to the tropical regions of America and Asia, north of equator, but not 

 hitherto recorded from Africa. Nine species have been described. 







1. Barysomus hopfneri. 



Barysomus Hopfneri, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. iv. p. 57 x 



Hab. Mexico 1 . 





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I have not seen any specimen agreeing with the description of Dejean. All the 



examples under the name hopfneri in the Salle collection belong to the following. 



2. Barysomus metallicus. (Tab. III. fig. 24.) 



Barysomus metallicus, Reiche, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 141 * ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. Atlas, t. 11. f. 1. 



Hab. Mexico, Cordova {Salle), Las Vigas (Hoge); Guatemala, San Geronimo 

 (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — South Ameeica, Venezuela 1 . 







Subfam. PELMATELLINjE. 













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This new subfamily is here proposed for the reception of a number of genera of sm 

 Quadripalmati, which agree with the Anisodactylinse in the brush-like clothing of t 







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dilated male tarsi, but differ from that group in having the penultimate joint of the 





labial palpi 



In the latter character they agree with Stenolophus, Brady cellus, 







d allies, forming the next subfamily, in which the soles of the dilated male 





biseriately squamose as in Harpalinse 



important differential 





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character, the 



similar facie s 



two 



the 



oups have a very close affinity with each other: they have i 



same curved prolongation of the frontal fovese; some species 







moreover, show a confused arrangement of the scaly hairs on the soles of the tarsi, 

 indicating a passage from one subfamily to the other. Besides Pelmatellus and 













group ' includes the Australian genera Lecanomerus, 



Thenarellus here described, the 



Thenarotes, and Syllectus, and the Chilian genus Nemaglossa. 













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