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Subfam. CATAPIESINJE. 











I separate this subfamily from the Cratocerinse (Cratocerides, Chaudoir) solely on 

 account of the truncate elytra. In both groups the subapical margin of the elytra is 

 uninterrupted and destitute of internal plica, a character which distinguishes them 

 from the Pterostichinse and Morioninae (to the latter of which they have otherwise a 

 near affinity). The subfamily consists of two genera only — Homolomorpha of South 



America, and Catapiesis. 





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CATAPIESIS. 











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Westwood in Guer. Ma 





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Axinophorus y Gray, in Griffith's An. King. Ins. i. p. 271 (1832) (nee Axinophorus, Dej. 1822). 

 Hololissus, Mannerheim, Bull. Mose. 1837, ii. p. 43. 



Five species of this remarkable genus have been described, all Tropical- American 

 North and South. 





l. Catapiesis mexicana. (Tab. IV. fig. 17.) 



Basolia mexicana, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. p. 349 \ 





Hal. Mexico x , Cordova (Salle) ; Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt, Janson) ; Panama, 

 Volcan de Chiriqui, 2000 to 3000 feet (Champion). 



2. Catap 



sulcip 



Minor, oblonga, nigra, nitida, antennis rufo-fulvis, labro, palpis pedibusque picescenti-rufis ; thorace brevi 



valde transverso, 



curvatim ans:ustato. ansrulis 



Lon 



anticis nullo modo productis, rotundatis, posticis subrectis margine paullo ante basin breviter sinuato, 

 fovea utrinque basali profundissima ; elytris sulcato-striatis, stria l a ad basin multo abbreviata, ceeteris 

 basin fere attingentibus, interstitiis convexis. 



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Hab. Mexico, Tuxtla (Salle). 



Subfam. CRATOCERINjE. 



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Two described genera only remain in this subfamily, as defined by Chaudoir, viz. 

 Brachidius from Tropical Asia and Cratocerus from Tropical America ; but it is possible 

 many Old World species considered as Drimostominse may belong to it. 



CRATOCERUS. 



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Oratocerides) 





Two species only of this genus are at present known, both widely distributed in 

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