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Subfam. BRACHIMNjE. 





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PHEEOPSOPHUS. 





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Pheropsophus, Solier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1833, p. 461 ; 1834, t. xvi. ff. 5-7; Chaudoir, Monogr. 



de Brachynides, p. 6 (1876). 





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Sixty 



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species of this widely distributed g 



enumerated in the late 









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Baron de Chaudoir's monograph cited above. They are abundant insects in the 



pical zones of both hemisph 



warmer temperate reg 



Africa, Australia 



Eastern Asia; but Central America and Mexico appear to be 



poorly furnished, and the genus is unknown in temperate North Amer 













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l. Pheropsophus aequinoctialis. 



Cicindela cequinoctialis, Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. p. 395 (1763). 









Pheropsophus cequinoctialis, Chaudoir, Monogr. Brach. p. 35 1 





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Carabus complanatus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 242 (1775). 

 Brachinus complanatus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 217 (1801). 

 Carabus planus, Oliv. Ent. iii. 35. p. 62, tab. 6. f. 63. 



Hah. Mexico, Yucatan (Br. Horn, coll. Bates). — South Ameeica 1 















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Yucatan specimens are deficient in the humeral spot, and the apical spot is very 

 small or wanting, thus approaching the Colombian var. P. distinctus, Dej. 















































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2. Pheropsophus biplagiatus. (Tab. VII. fig. 5.) 



Pheropsophus biplagiatus, Chaudoir, Monogr. Brach. p. 8 \ 







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Hob. Mexico 1 , Juquila (Boucard, coll. SalU). 











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BRACHINUS. 





Brachinus, Weber, Obs. Ent. p. 22 (1801) . 







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Brachynus, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Brachynides, p. 39 (1876). 

















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About 150 species of this genus have been described. With the exception of 

 Australia and all oceanic islands, it is distributed over the tropical and temperate 

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1. Brachinus mexicanus. 





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Brachinus mexicanus, Dejean, Sp. Gen. v. p. 428; Chaudoir, Monogr. des Brachyn. p. 63 



Brachinus convexus, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1837, iii. p. 7. 



















Hah. Mexico \ Cordova, Yolos, Etla, Izucar, Capulalpam, Tuxtla (Salle), Guanajuato 



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(Duges, coll. Salle), Jalapa, Oaxaca (H'dge), Mexico city (Flohr) ; Guatemala, near the 

 city (Salvin, Champion), Panajachel (Champion). 

 biol. CENTB.-AMEK., Coleopt., Vol. I. Pt. 1, March 1883. zz 





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