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l. Axinopalpus mexicanus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 6.) 



A. biplagiato proxime affinis et simillimus, sed elytrorum vitta flava nee humerum nee marginem attingente. 



Piceo-niger, nitidus, antennis basi, pedibus faseiaque utrinque elytrorum (postice abbreviata, suturae 



parallela, versus basin oblique deflecta, marginem longe haud attingente) flavis ; tliorace late cordato, 



angulis posticis prominentibus ; elytris obsoletissime striatis. 

 Long. 1| lin. 



Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoge). 



i. 



Kesembles A. biplayiatus of the Eastern States of North America more nearly than it 

 does the western A. califomicus. 



2. Axinopalpus fiisciceps. 



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Axinopalpus fusciceps, Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. York, v. p. 175 \ 



Hab. North America, California 1 , Texas. — Mexico, Guanajuato (Duges, coll. Salle); 

 Guatemala, Quiche Mountains (Champion). 



3. Axinopalpus jucundus. (Tab. VIII. fig. 8.) 



Minus linearis, melleo-flavis, tliorace rufo, vertice, vitta suturali (medio dilatata apicem longe haud attingente), 

 macula utrinque discoidali (cum vitta suturali fere conjuncta) nigro-fuscis ; capite quam in A.fuscicipite 

 latiore et breviore, post oculos prominentes subito breviter angustato ; tliorace brevius eordato, postice 

 sicut in ceteris speciebus sinuato-angustato, angulis exstantibus acutis ; elytris distincte punetulato-striatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Sab. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion). 



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DROMIUS 



Dromius, Bonelli, Obs. Ent. i. (1809) tabl. synopt.; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. i. p. 119; Schaum, Ins. 



Deutschl. i. 1, p. 263. 



Seventy-five species of this well-known and widely distributed genus have been 

 described. It is characteristic of the north temperate fauna of the Old World ; but 

 a few species occur in North America, and others in Tropical Asia, South Africa, 



Chili, and Australia. The following species are the first true Dromii recorded from 

 Tropical America. 



l. Dromius flohri. 



D. piceo affinis, sed differt capite post oculos breviore, citius rotundato &c. Elongato-oblongus, subdepressus 

 piceo-niger, leviter seneo tinctus, nitidus ; antennis, partibus oris pedibusque rufioribus ; capite post oculos 

 prominentes rotundato-angustato, collo distincto ; fronte juxta oculum utrinque acute 3- vel 4-plicata ; 



tliorace subquadrato lateribus arcuatis, antice quam postice paullo citius angustato, margine late (antice 

 angustius) explanato-reflexo, angulis posticis obtusis, rotundatis, dorso striguloso; elytris transversim 

 leviter sinuatim truncatis angulo exteriore rotundato, dorso sat profunde punctato-striatis, stria 6 a punctis 

 setiferis sex, inter stitiis convexis ; ligula sexsetosa, paraglossis ea haud longioribus. 

 Long. 3^ lin. 





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