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ADEPHAGA. 





6trongly than in typical specimens, judging from Reiche's expression " interstiths 

 valde punctatis." 



2. Cryptobatis chontalensis. (Tab. VIII. fig. 20.) 



G. janthopterce proxime affinis, differt tantum statura paullo minore et angustiore interstitiisque elytrorum 

 lsevibus. Oblonga, flava, elytris laete violaceis striato-punctatis, utrinque callis duobus subapicalibus, 

 striato-ptinctatis, interstitiis lsevibus, exterioribus sparsissime punctulatis exceptis ; antennis, femoribus 

 apice, tibiis et tarsis nigris ; thorace valde transverso, interdum minus lato, angulis posticis fere obtusis ; 

 metasterno antice (inter coxas) tumido. 



Long. 3| lin. 



Hob. Nicakagua, Chontales (Belt, Janson). 



Scarcely more than a local variety of C. janthoptera. The same may be said of the 

 South-American species C. laticollis and C. inwqualis. 



PHILOPHEUGA. 



Motschulsky 



Mosc 



This genus appears to be limited in its distribution to the Pacific and Southern 

 States of North America, one of the species extending into Central Mexico. Three 

 species are known. 



The genus is scarcely in its right place near 



Calleida : but it cannot in a natural 



ystem be far removed from Spongoloba, which comes 



Calleida in Chaud 



classification. It will probably find its 



eventually in a separate subgroup of 



Calleidinae, to which Mimodromius and its numerous allies belo 



1. Philopheuga viridicollis. 



Cymindis viridicollis, Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. York, iv. p. 188 1 (1848). 

 Philopheuga purpurea, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1877, i. p. 245 (nee Say). 

 Philopheuga subcordata, Chaudoir, ibid. p. 246 2 . 

 Calleida viridis, Chevrolat, Col. Mex. ii. no. 155 (1835) 3 . 



Hab. North America, Rocky Mountains 1 , Texas. — Mexico 



near the city (Salle, 



Flohr), San Andres (Salle), Guanajuato (Buges, coll. Salle), Las Vigas 3 (Edge). 



On the comparison of a long series I can perceive no constant difference between 

 Mexican specimens and others from Texas. 



A specimen named C. viridis, Chevr., in the Salle collection, belongs to this species. 



The name is more ancient than C. viridicollis, but is inadmissible, as the Cymindis 

 viridis described by Dejean four years earlier, viz. in 1831, is a distinct species of the 



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2. Philopheuga brachinoides. (Tab. IX. fig. l.) 



Lsete subviridi-cserulea, minus nitida, elytris subopacis, dorso violaceis ; antennis basi (articulis l°-3 m et 4 

 dimidio basali), thorace femoribusque rufis, tibiis tarsisque fuscescenti-rufis : camte rfmpdia fWm+« o™<w rt 



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