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Morio, Latreille, Consid. Gener. s. 1. Ins. 1810, tabl. meth. ; Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. p. 



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subtropical latitudes in both hemispheres, including Australia. 



1. Morio georgiae. 



Scarites georgia, Palisot de Beauvois, Ins. Afr. et Amer. p. 107, t. 15. f . 5 (1805) \ 



Harpalus monilicornis , Latreille, Gen. Crust, et Ins. i. p. 206 (1806). 



Morio monilicornis, Dej. Spec. Gen. Col. i. p. 430 2 . 



Morio cordatus. Chaudoir, Bull. Mose. 1837, ii. p. 13 3 j id. ibid. 1854, ii. p. 325 ; Chevrolat, Mag 









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Zool. 1841, Ins. 64-5. no. 209*. 



Morio 



1842, p. 377 



Mosc 



Hab. Noeth Ameeica 



•Mexico 3 4 , Cordova, Vera Cruz, Playa Vicente, Tuxtla 



Santecomapan (SalU), Ventanas (Forrer); Beitish Hondueas 



Sarstoon (Bl 



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Mirandilla, near the city, El Tumbador, Chacoj 



Teleman, Tamahu, El Beposo, Las Mercedes (Champion)-, Nicaeagua, Chontales (B 

 Janson); Panama, Matachin (SchunJce).— West Indies 2 , 



Cuba 



South Ameeica 



Colombia 5 6 to South Brazil 



2. Morio simplex 



Morio 



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Hab. Mexico (Beyrolle), Yucatan (coll. Bates) ; Guatemala, El Eeposo, El Tumbador 

 {Champion). — South Ameeica x 2 3 . 



Mexican and Central-American individuals are smaller than the average of those I 

 have seen from South America, and have the thorax considerably more narrowed before 

 the posterior angles; the differences, however, are not greater than those seen in 

 specimens of M. georgice taken in one and the same locality. 



3. Morio lafertei. (Tab. IV. fig. 16.) 



Morio lafertei, Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 254 \ 

 Morio spiniger, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. p. 331 2 . 



Hab. Mexico 1 2 , Sonora (coll. Bates), Cordova, Oaxaca (Salle), Jalapa (Flohr). 



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Moriosomus, Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc. 1864, iii. p. 198. 



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The following is the only known species of this genus : 



1. Moriosomus sylvestris. (Tab. IV. fig. 19.) 



Moriosomus sylvestris, Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. 1855, p. 19, 1. 1. f. 2; id. Bull. Mosc 



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Hab. Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Panama, Obispo 1 . 

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