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3. Apristus longulus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 7.) 





Longior et gracilior, nitidus, niger aeneo vix tinctus, tibiis tarsisque piceis ; thorace cordato, postice simiatim 

 angustato, angulis posticis obtusis ; elytris apice oblique truncatis, dorso ntrinque quinquestriatis, stria 

 quinta versus apicem multo abbreviata, sexta versus basin tantum leviter impressa, septima nulla. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 



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BLECHRUS. 



A g 



numer< 



of small Dromiinse, distributed o"\ 

 and varied in the Mediterranean 



the north temperate zone, and most 



:en species have been 



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Eight 



described ; but several of these are doubtless only synonyms of the almost ubiqu 

 B. glabratus. 



1. Blechrus glabratus. 



Lebia glabrata, D uf tschmid, Fauna Austr. ii. p. 248 \ 

 Dromius glabratus, Dej. Sp. Gen. Col. i. p. 244. 

 Dromius longulus, Dej. ibid. v. p. 350 2 . 



Blechrus glabratus, Schaum, Ins. Deutschl. i. 1, p. 275. 

 Blechrus negrita, Wollaston, Ins. Mader. p. 9 3 . 



Hab. North America, California, — Mexico, Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle) ; Guate- 

 mala, Izabal (Salle), San Juan (Champion). — Europe 1 , Siberia 2 , Tangier 3 , Madeira 3 . 



Mexican and Central-American specimens resemble most the more elongate Siberian 







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An example from Califor 



sent to me 



Schaufuss as 



B. nigrinus of Mannerheim. Mannerheim compared bis B. nigrinus with Metabletus 

 truncatellus, and made no allusion to the equally well-known B. glabratus ; and I am 

 inclined to think his species is not a Blechrus at all, especially as I have received from 

 Morrison, also from California, as the Blechrus nigrinus an insect which appears to be 

 a Metabletus allied to but longer than M. truncatellus. 







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A.X1NOPALPUS. 







AxinopalpuSy Leconte, Ann. Lye. iv. p. 190 (1846). 

 Variopalpis, Solier; Gay, Hist. Chile, iv. p. 148 (1849). 



This genus, peculiar to America, appears to be generally distributed throughout the 

 continent, species being known from the equatorial plains of South America, as well as 

 from temperate and tropical North America, and from Chili, including the outlying 









md of Juan Fernandez. Six species have so far been described. 

 According to Dr. Horn (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ix. 1881, p. 158), the date of 



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Axinop alpus was 1846 



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paper was 



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that year 



though the volume of the 'Annals of the Lyceum' bears the date of 1848; but 

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