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ALLOTKIOPUS.— HYPHEEPES. 



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dentatis, margine laterali reflexo intus sulculo a dorso separato, dorso transversim striolato, basi utrinque 

 fovea magna transversa ; elytris postice subdilatatis, convexis, punctato-striatis, interstitiis convexis ; 



Long. 8-10 lin. S $ . 



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Hab. Guatemala, Totonicapam (Champion 



ALLOTKIOPUS. 



Feronia, subg. Pristoscelis, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. liii. 1878, p. 71 (nom. subgen. praeocc). 



Among the characters which Chaudoir pointed out as distinguishing this subgenus, 

 the most important is the curved and inwardly serrated hind tibiae of the male. The 

 hind legs are relatively long, and their femora thick, in addition to which the hind 

 trochanters are unusually long and pointed. The genus is allied in many respects 



to Hypherpes; but the elytra have a large puncture (which fails in some individuals) 



the third interstice. The insect on which the genus is founded is not unlike 



& 



miniature Hyperion schrbteri, to which it is certainly 



1. Allotriopus serratipes. (Tab. IV. fig. 7.) 



Feronia (Pristoscelis) serratipes, Chaudoir, loc. cit. p. 71 \ 



Hab. Mexico 1 



HYPHERPES 





Hypherpes, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1838, i. pp. 8 et 13. 



A group peculiar, as far as at present recorded, to North America, and regarded by 

 American entomologists as simply a section of Pterostichus. The species are nearly all 

 of elongate parallelogrammic shape, and distinguished by the absence of the usual 



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Crotch, in his ' Check List of Col. Amer. N 



of Mexico,' in 1874 enumerated twenty-one species as belonging to it; and many more 



;en described since then. The following are the only members yet known from 



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1. Hypherpes brachypterus. (Tab. IV. fig. 8.) 



ronia (Hypherpes) brachyptera, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. liii. 1871 







Hab. Mexico x , Parada (Salle). 



2. Hypherpes longissimus. (Tab. IV. fig. 6.) 



Yalde elongatus, angustus, eastaneus, nitidus ; palpis apice gradatim subaeuminatis ; capite ut in H. angusto 



angusto, oculis parvis haud prominentibus, genis tumidis post oculos elongatis ; thorace elongato-quadrato, 

 postice gradatim hand sinuatim et modice angnstato, basi utrinque paullo simiato angulisque posticis 

 retrorsum paullo productis, fovea utrinque basali valde elongata sed medio fere interrupta ; elytris anguste 

 oblongis, humeris fere rectis haud dentatis, fortiter striatis, interstitiis convexis. 



Long. 5 lin. <S . 



Hab. Guatemala, Totonicapam (Champion). 

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