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32. Calleida punctulata. 



Calleida punctulata, Chaudoir, Bull. jVTosc. 1848, i. p. 86. 













Callida punctulata, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Callidides, p. 40 l . 



Ilab. Mexico, Trapiche, Actopan (Hbge), Tehuantepec (Sumichrast, coll. Salle), 

 Yucatan 1 ; Guatemala, El Jicaro (Champion). 





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33. Calleida hogei. 



O. punctulatce quoad formam similis, sed differt coloribus, thoracisque angulis posticis fere rectis etc. Late 

 oblonga, castaneo-rufa, thorace disco utrinque obscure seneo, ventris segmentis apice nigricantibus, elytris 

 viridi-olivaceis, sericeo-nitentibus, apice utrinque macula aurata ; capite mox pone oculos subito angustato, 

 haud punctato ; thorace late quadrato, antice sat rotundato, postice sinuato angulis subacutis, margine 

 laterali late explanato sed minus reflexo, dorso transversim subtiliter (lateribus grossius) strigoso et 

 sparsim punctulato ; elytris subrecte truncatis (extus obtusis), dorso acute punctulato-striatis, interstitiis 



punctulatis planis, tertio ( S ) bipunctato, puncto anteriore paullo ante medium sito. 

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Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Edge). 



One example only, a male, with two anal punctures on each side. In form and 



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34. Calleida amethystina. 



Carabus amethy stinus , Eabricius, Ent. Syst. i. p. 160 (1792) l . 



Calleida splendida, Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 1833, p. 189; Brulle, Voy. de d'Orbigny dans l'Amer. 



Merid. Ins. p. 13. 

 Calleida auricollis, Castelnau, Etudes Ent. 1835, p. 46 2 . 

 Calleida f estiva, Brulle, Voy. de d'Orbigny dans l'Amer. Merid. Ins. t. ii. fig. 7 3 (1837-43). 



Calleida dimidiata, Reiche, Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 275 4 . 



Callida amethystina, Chaudoir, Monogr. des Callidides, p. 41 5 . 



Hab. Mexico, Misantla (Edge); British Honduras, Rio Hondo (Blancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala, San Gerdnimo (Champion) ; Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Panama, 



Bugaba (Champion). — South Ameeica, Colombia 4 , Venezuela 5 , Cayenne 1 , Amazons, 











Brazil 2 5 , Bolivia 3 . 











Found on low trees and bushes in cultivated places, and remarkably constant in 



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35. Calleida rustica. 



Subtus testaceo-rufa, supra castaneo-fusca, elytrorum lateribus late cuprascentibus, antennis ab articulo 3° 



fuscis ; capite impunctato, post oculos rotundato-angustato, haud tumido ; thorace quadrato sat lato, medio 

 rotundato, antice rotundatim angustato, postice sinuato, modice angustato, angulis posticis haud exstan- 

 tibus, subrectis, margine laterali sat late explanato sed parum reflexo, dorso passim transverse strigoso, 



margine et basi punctatis ; elytris oblongo-ovatis, gradatim sed paullo a basi usque ultra medium ampliatis, 























