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essentially a genus characteristic of Austro-Malasia and Eastern India, out of which 
region I am acquainted only with the two species here ascribed to the genus. 
1. Tachinoderus grandis. (Tab. VII. fig. 9.) 
Coproporus grandis, Solsky, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. v. p. 121’. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Jalapa, Mirador (Hoge), Guanajuato, Cordova, Yolos, Cuernavaca, 
Puebla, Capulalpam (Sallé); GuaremaLa, Guatemala city, Capetillo, Las Mercedes 
3000 feet, Cerro Zunil 4000 to 5000 feet, Senahu and Sabo in Vera Paz (Champion). 
The figure is drawn from examples found at Senahu. 
2. Tachinoderus major. 
Major, subdepressus, sat nitidus, nigerrimus; abdomine ad apicem piceo; prothorace nitido, fere impunctato, 
subtilissime transversim striguloso, basi utrinque subsinuato, angulis posterioribus subacutis ; elytris parce 
subtiliter punctatis, subtilissimeque transversim strigulosis, epipleuris evidenter breviter setulosis; abdo- 
mine crebrius minus subtiliter punctato, lateribus minus obsolete marginatis ; pedibus cum tarsis nigris. 
Long. 9 millim. 
Mas, tarsis anterioribus leviter dilatatis; segmento ultimo dorsali equaliter quadrispinoso, spinis intermediis 
minus separatis; segmento ultimo ventrali etiam quadrispinoso, spinis intermediis latioribus et paulo 
longioribus, ab incisura magna, elongata, sat lata separatis; segmento penultimo margine posteriore 
trisinuato, sinu intermedio ciliato. 
Fem., segmento ultimo dorsali quadrispinoso, spinis intermediis paulo brevioribus, apicibus tenuibus sat late 
distantibus ; segmento ultimo ventrali sexspinoso, spinis quatuor intermediis fere equalibus, lateralibus 
evidenter brevioribus. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba 800 to 1500 feet (Champion). 
This species is closely allied to 7. grandis, but the anterior portion of the mesosternal 
carina is evidently more prominent; the hind body is reddish at the extremity, the 
punctuation of the elytra is more distinct, that of the hind body rather coarser and less 
dense; the male anterior tarsi are more dilated, and the sexual structures of the terminal 
segment are a little different. 
Three individuals only have been found, and the one female is quite fragmentary. 
CILEA. 
Cilea, Duval, Gen. Col. Eur. Staph. p. 25. 
Leucoparyphus, Kraatz, Nat. Ins. Deutsch. ii. p. 393. 
Cilea (ex parte), Fauvel, Ann. Mus. Gen. xii. p. 278. 
This genus has been merged with Erchomus by Fauvel, but it may be retained; the 
epipleure are normal, the tarsi more elongate, the hind body strongly margined at the 
sides, and the mesosternum very feebly carinate; various species of Erchomus approach 
Cilea in one or perhaps two of these respects, but none that I am acquainted with in 
such a manner as to be intermediate. Discrepancy of opinion exists as to whether Cilea 
or Leucoparyphus should be used for the name of the genus, the two names having 
apparently been published simultaneously ; Duval (op. cit. p. 63, note) states definitely 
