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ADEPHAGA. 



seems not to be different from M. arnea of Cayenne, and, judging from a specimen 

 which I obtained from the same source (Squire's collection) as the describer's, undis- 



tinguishable from M. reichei (Chaudoir) of Rio Janeiro.- Specimens differ in the 

 relative length of the elytra, which is one of the chief points of distinction between 

 M. cenea and M. reichei. The colour is brownish bronze, more or less dark, the elytra 

 being sometimes rufescent on the side towards the tip, and the base of the antennae 

 and sometimes the le^s more or less testaceous red. The head and thorax are coarsely 



punctured ; the elytra conspicuously punctate-striate, the striae deeper in two depressed 

 spaces on the disk and on the sides before a slightly raised callus, and less impressed 



on the hinder part of the disk. The thorax is narrow, obtusely angulated before the 

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HYBOPTERA. 



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Hyboptera, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Callidides, p. 69. 



This curious and beautiful little genus is also peculiar to Tropical America. Four 

 species have been described. 





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1. Hyboptera tuberculata. (Tab. vill. fig. 23.) 



Lebia tuberculata, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. i. p. 272 \ 

 Hyboptera tuberculata, Chaudoir, loc. cit. p. 70 2 . 



Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). — South America, Cayenne 1 , 



Amazons 2 . 



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Aspasiola, Chaudoir,, Bull. Mosc. 1877, i. p. 209. 



This and the following genus were excluded from the Callidides group by Chaudoir 



of the paraglossse not uniting 



and border 



b 



the upper edge of the 



ligula, a character which he held to be distinctive of the group. Too close an adher 



this one character, however, pr 



lead 



results 



al 



grouping 



of 



Carabidae im 



D 



Hoi 



has 



tly show 



by 



dissection that some of the species (Spongoloba punctat 



d an allied species) 



admitted by Chaud 



the group, and not to be separated from them in a natural 



classification, do not show this union of the paraglossae at the tip of the ligula ; and it 

 is well known that genera of quite different subfamilies exhibit the character to as high 

 a degree as the typical Calleida?. If, then, this development of the paraglossae be set 

 aside, and the ensemble of the other characters allowed to have its legitimate weight, 



shall be obliged to admit such genera as Aspasiola, Cryptobatis, Physodera, &c 



the 



ubgroup as Onota, Otoglossa, and Bybopt 



All agree with the Callidides 



having securiform labial palpi and bilobed penultimate joint of the tarsi ; their para 





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