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ADEPHAGA. 



modice angustato, angulis posticis extantibus, anticis deflexis obtusis collum fere amplectentibus, sulculo 

 anteriore (ut in ceteris Adrimis) arcuato acute insculpto, basi sparsissime grosse punctata, fovea utrinque 

 lineari magna profunda, margine lateral] postice paullulum explanato-elevato ; elytris profunde et acute 

 striatis, striis fundo baud conspicue punctulatis ; metasterno sulculo submarginali posteriore fere integro. 

 Long. 3| lin. 3 . 



Hab. Guatemala, Cubilguitz {Champion). 

















Mr. Champion 



home one example only ; the species of Adrimus appear to be 



everywhere rare insects. 



STOLONIS. 



Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc 

 iidoir. Bull. Mosc. xlvii. r 



Monthly M 



Anchomenus, partim, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. iii. p. 125. 



* 



Anchonoderus, parting Reiche, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 38. 



Chaudoir enumerated eleven species as belonging to this genus, which is exclusively- 

 Tropical American. 



interrupted 



Although resembling Anchomenus in its general slender fig 



does 



belong to the same subfamily as that g 



as shown by the 



margin of the elyt 



The penultimate joint of the labial palpi is bisetose 



1. Stolonis intercepts (Tab. IV. fig. 15.) 



Stolonis inter cepta, Chaudoir, loc. cit. p. 87 \ 



Hob. Mexico, Cordova (Salle), Yucatan (Pilate *), 



Subfam. MOBIOMNjE. 



The position of this subfamily was strangely misunderstood by the older authors 



It 



has a close affinity with the Pterostichinse, especially the genera Hypherpes, Percolaus, 

 and Percus, being distinguished chiefly by the fore tibiae being much dilated at the 



apex, with th 

 latter organs 



exterior angle produced, and by the short tarsi and antennas. 



y 



the 



umber of glabrous basal joints. Hyp 



Th 



Melisodera 



have four ; Platynodes, Morio, and Buderes also four, with the exception that the apex 



fourth joint is more or less pubescent; but Stei 



of 



Moriosomus have only th 



Stereodema, and 



The 



h 



- 



abnormal both in the form 





of the joints and in their pubescence; joints fourth to eleventh being more or less 

 compressed, and glabrous in the middle of both the flattened surfaces. This structure 

 is observable also in the Broscinse and many Scaritinse, and seems to be associated with 



concealed 



confined abodes and sedentary habits of th 



& 



either 



the 



bark of trees, where they are frequently found 



associated with Passali, on the larvse of which they probably feed 













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