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11. Lachnophorus axillaris 



Motschulsky, Bull. Mosc 



Hab. Panama 



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Apparently similar to L. humeralis, but much smaller 



EUPHORTICUS. 



Euphorticus, Horn, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ix. p. 144 (1881). 

 Lachnophorus, parting Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 30. 



A genus separated by Dr. Horn from Lachnophorus on the characters 



of palpi conical, gradually narrowed to tip ; the surface glabrous 



punctures. 



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referable to the genus, one widely distributed 



Last j oints 



lytra without dorsal 



in North 



and South America, and the other two peculiar to the tropical 

 has spotted elytra, viz. E. quadrinotatus, from South Brazil. 



of the latter 



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1. Euphorticus pubescens. 



Lachnophorus pubescens, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 30 \ 

 Lachnophorus niger, Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 245 2 . 

 Lachnophorus Icevicollis, Reiche, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 180 3 . 



Hab. North America *.— Mexico, Cordova (Salle) ; Guatemala, near the city, San 

 Geronimo, El Keposo, Senahu ( Champion) .—South America 23 . 



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Var. cmeolus. Lsetius aeneus, pedibus antennarumque basi interdum fulvo- vel piceo-testaceis. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa, Oaxaca (Hoge) ; Guatemala, near the city, San Geronimo, 



Paso Antonio (Champion 



South Ameeica, Amazons to Santa Catharina, S. Brazil 



Reiche and Gory describe their species as black (like the North- American form) ; 

 bnt all the South- American examples I have seen are of a light brassy colour. The 

 Central- American examples of the brassy-black type form are generally rather more 



pilose than the United-States examples I have seen, and 

 little more rotundate in shape ; but all the varieties 

 intermediate forms. 



the thorax 



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insibly connected by 



2. Euphorticus leucoscelis. 



Lachnophorus leucoscelis, Bates^Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 603 l . 



" L. Icevicolli (Reich.) proxime affinis. Elongatus, nigro-seneus, nitidus, supra glaber ; palpis antennarumque 

 artieulis 4 basalibus rufo-testaceis ; tibiis (apice excepto) albo-testaceis ; capite (cum oculis) quam thorax 

 latiore, punctis magnis conspersis ; thorace rotundato-cordato, valde convexo, postice fortiter angustato, 

 basi constricto et depresso, fere impunctato, polito ; elytris profunde striatis, striis a basi usque paulo 

 ultra medium grosse punctatis. 



46 Long, vix 2 lin." 



Bab. Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt J ) ; Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



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