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APENES. 



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latitudes. Thirty-eight species have been described. Didymochceta and Malisus form 

 sections of the genus founded on slight characters, the latter on general form and 



facies, the former on the narrower ligula and tooth of mentum 



1. Apenes pallidipes. (Tab. VII. fig. 24.) 



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Cymindis pallidipes, Chevrolat, Col. Mex. ii. no. 153 \ 

 Apenes mexicana, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875, ii. p. 25. 

 Apenes marginipennis, Chaudoir, ibid. 2 



Hab. Mexico, Toxpam \ Orizaba (Salle), Jalapa, Las Vigas, Tuzumapa (Hoge), 

 Yucatan 2 (Salle) ; Guatemala, near the city (Champion) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 

 (Champion). 



The differences given by Chaudoir, on the examination of one specimen only of each, 

 as justifying the separation of A. marginipennis from A. pallidipes do not hold good 

 when a large series is examined. In form there are slight variations which do not 



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correspond with differences of markings ; and the absence of the subapical macular 

 fascia (a character of A. marginipennis) is seen in many Mexican examples found at 

 Jalapa and elsewhere, where specimens with a rudimentary and others with a well- 

 developed fascia occur. Further south in Guatemala and Chiriqui all the examples 

 have the fascia ; and these differ in scarcely any thing but the blacker knees from the 

 Venezuelan A. quadripunetata and the West-India A. variegata, Dej. 



The last-men 



is said to be the A. pallipes of Fabricius, described 



from "America, coll. Hunter." But the Fabrician description does not fit the 



and is vague and worthless. 



2. Apenes brevivittis. 



tenes brevivittis, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 



Hab. Mexico, Yucatan (Pilate l ). 



3. Apenes circumcincta. (Tab. VIII. fig. 4.) 



Apenes circumcincta, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875, ii. p. 29 l . 



Hab. Mexico 1 , Cordova (Salle). 



4. Apenes parallela 



Cymindis par allela, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. i. p. 218 \ 



Mosc 



Hab. Mexico (Reiche 2 ) . — West Indies, Cuba * 2 



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5. Apenes obscura. (Tab. vn. fig. 25.) 



Apenes obscura, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1875, ii. p. 38 \ 



Hab. Mexico \ Orizaba (Salle), Tehuacan (Hbge) 





