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ADEPHAGA. 









2. Gallerucidia champ 



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& erotyloidi quoad formam simillima, sed differt elytris paullo grossius punctulatis et macula magna communi 

 late cordiformi postmediana nigra ornatis. 



Long. 3|-3f lin. 



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Hab. Guatemala, Aceituno (Champion). 









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Subfam. PENTAGONICINJE. 



Since this subfamily was instituted by me in the ' Geodephagous Coleoptera of Japan,' 

 M. de Chaudoir, in admitting the propriety of its separation, has remarked that the 



genus constituting it appeared to him to be a transition form between the Physoderides 

 and the Lebiides. But it differs from both by its perfectly cursorial, instead of scan- 



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sorial feet 



I am inclined to look upon it as a Lebia form 



peculiar 







mode of life, its habits being to haunt JBoleti for the minute boletoph 



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which constitute its prey. 





PENTAGONICA. 





Rhombodera, Reiche, Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 313 (nom. praeocc). 

 Pentagonica, Schmidt-Goebel, Faunula Coleopt. Birmanise, p. 47 (1846) 

 Didetus, Leconte, Classif. Carabidse U. S. p. 377 (1853). 



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Elliotia, Nietner, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1856, p. 525. 

 Trichothor ax , Montrouzier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. I860, p. 235. 









Xenothorax, Wollaston, Coleopt. Hesperidum, p. 15 (1867). 

 Wakefieldia, Broun, Manual of N. Zealand Coleopt. p. 62 (1880) . 



Very widely distributed, being found in tropical and temperate America and Southern 









and Eastern Asia, in Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, and in the Cape-Verd 



Islands. 





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More than twenty species have been described. 







1. Pentagonica trivittata. 



Lebia trivittata, Dejean, Sp. Gen. Col. v. p. 378 \ 

 Rhombodera virgata, Reiche, Bev. Zool. 1842, p. 313 2 . 



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2. Pentagonica bifasciata. (Tab. IX. fig. 24.) 



Pentagonica bifasciata, Chaudoir, Bull. Mosc. 1877, i. p. 214 l . 







Hab. Mexico \ Cordova (Salle). 



3. Pentagonica gonostigma. (Tab. IX. fig. 22 





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