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C A LLEID A . 



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grosse sparsim punctato ; thorace sicut in P. viridicolli cordato, transversim (prope latera grosse) rugoso, 

 basi et apice punctata ; elytris pnnctato-striatis, interstitiis punctulatis convexiusculis. 



Long. 4 lin. 



Hob. Mexico, Cerro de Plumas (Edge). 



One example only. 



CALLEIDA. 



Calleida, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. i. p. 220 (1825). 



Callida, Chaudoir, Monogr. cL Callidides, p. 11 (1872). 



About 120 species of this beautiful genus have been described. It is distributed 

 throughout the tropical and warmer temperate regions of both the eastern and western 

 hemispheres, but does not occur in Europe or in the Mediterranean subprovince, nor, as 

 far as is known, in Australia or the Oceanic islands. 



I. Anus in mare postice utrinque itnipunctatus, in femina bipunctatus. 



e Old-world species belong to this section, established by Chaudoir ; and thus 



appears of some value as a natural division of the genus. But the number of anal 



All 



setiferous punctures in the New-world species seems not to correspond with their other 

 characters, and to separate forms which are naturally allied ; the number of punctures 



also varies capriciously in one and the same species. 



1 . Calleida brunnea. * 



Calleida brunnea, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 328 1 ; Chaudoir, Monogr. d. Callidides, p. 19 



Hab. Mexico (Hopfner 1 ). 



2. Calleida sericinitens. (Tab. IX. fig. 3.) 



Elongata, postice (prsecipue $ ) ampliata, supra depressa sat lata, rufa, elytris senescenti-viridibus sericeo- 

 nitentibus, vitta utrinque laterali (versus angulum laterali-apicalem dilatata) aurea, epipleuris, interdum 

 quoque sutura margineque lateral^ rufls ; capite mox pone oculos sat abrupte angustato ; thorace sub- 

 cordato, antice late rotundato, postice sinuato-angustato, angulis posticis parum exstantibus fere rectis 

 interdum subobtusis, dorso transversim modice acute striguloso, limbo et juxta lineam dorsalem punctato ; 

 elytris latis, sinuato-truneatis, angulo exteriore nullomodo producto, dorso antico modice depresso, acute 

 sed haud profunde pimctato-striatis, interstitiis fere planis subtiliter sparsius punctulatis, tertii puncto 

 anteriore paulo ante medium, posteriore ab apice sat remoto. 



Long. 5-| lin. 



Hab. Beitish Honduras, river Sarstoon (Blaneaneaux) ; Guatemala, near the city, 

 Calderas (Champion). 



Evidently closely allied to C. brunnea, a species I know only from description, and 

 of which apparently only a single specimen is known in collections. The punctuation 

 of the interstices of the elytra appears, however, much weaker than in that species, 



being extremely fine and sparse. 



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