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ADEPHAGA. 



1. Ophryogaster anomalus 



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Feronia (Ophryogaster) anomala, Chaudoir, loc. cit. p. 60 l 



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Hab. Mexico (Deyrolle 



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2. Ophryogaster flohri. 



0. anomalo mulfco minor et gracilior ; gracilis, niger, politus, antennis, palpis pedibusque piceis, illis articulis 

 duobus basalibus, palpis articulis apicalibus femoribusque castaneo-rufis ; mandibulis elongatis, minus 

 curvatis; capite lsevi, foveis frontalibus acutissime et profunde insculptis, leviter curvatis; thorace 

 elongato-cordato, antice modice rotundato-dilatato, versus apicem sat angustato, angulis anticis deflexis, 

 collo approximates, postice valde sinuatim angustato, angulis posticis acutis, supra lsevissimo, lineis 

 impressis fere obsoletis fovea utrinque basali lineari profunda excepta ; elytris oblongis, convexis, acute 

 striatis, interstitiis subconvexis absque punctis, striola scutellari nulla, sed fovea umbilicata prope basin striae 

 secundse conspicua. 



Long. 4| lin. 3 . 



Hab. Mexico (Flohr). 



I have no record of the special locality in which Mr, Flohr took this species. It 

 formed part of the first collection sent, and was probably found near Mexico city. 







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PCECILUS. 



Pcecilus, Bonelli, Obs. Ent. tabl. synopt. (1809); Chaudoir, Monographic du g. Pmcilus, FAbeille, 



1875. 





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A genus peculiar to the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. Chaudoir 

 described forty-nine species as belonging to it ; but since the date of his monograph 

 many others have been described. Like many other northern genera, it passes into 

 intratropical latitudes only in North America. 



1. Pcecilus mexicanus. 



Pcecilus mexicanus, Chaudoir, FAbeille, 1875, p. 44 l . 



Hab. Mexico \ Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle), Oaxaca {Huge) 



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2. Pcecilus cyanicolor. 



Pcecilus cyanicolor, Chaudoir, PAbeille, 1875, p. 43 \ 



Pcecilus cyanicolor, var. connexus, id. ibid. 



Pcecilus cyaneus, Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. York, iv. p. 231 2 . 



Hab. North America, Rocky Mountains x 2 — Mexico \ Valle del Maiz {Br. Palmer) 



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the city (Flohr), Jalapa (H'dge 



EUCHROA. 



Euchroa, Brulle, Hist. Nat. Ins. iv. p. 335 (1834) . 

 Dyschromus, Chaudoir, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 429. 



Seven species of this well-marked genus are known, all Tropical American, one 





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