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(at least in the male) has a small sixth segment, which the author seems to have 
overlooked. 
The species seems to -be very rare, no more than two or three specimens having been 
met with at present. 
BLAXIMA. 
Caput sat magnum, oculis subtiliter reticulatis ; antenne clava brevi, articulis connatis, ultimo leviter falci- 
formi; palpi labiales articulo ultimo securiformi, transverso, maxillares eodem subulato? Prothorax 
oblongus, antice leviter constrictus, basi marginatus. Elytra oblonga, subparallela, equaliter rugose 
punctata, sat convexa. Pedes haud longi, femoribus posticis quam corpus multo brevioribus; tarsi 
quinque articulati, articulo primo brevi occulto, tribus sequentibus bilobis, lamellatis; ungues basi valde 
@xcisl. 
The insect for which I propose this genus has several characters in common with 
Sallea; but its general form is very different, rather resembling a T'richodes. 'Two of 
the specimens examined are males, the exserted genitalia being in evidence; but these 
do not exhibit any other external difference that I can discover. 
1. Blaxima rubripennis. (Clerus rubripennis, Tab. VIII. fig. 14.) 
Sallea rubripennis, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1874, p. 367. 
Hab. Muxtco', Tepanistlahuca (Sallé); Guaremana, Capetillo (Champion); Cosra 
Rica (fogers). 
Of this rare insect but one specimen has (so far as I am aware) occurred in each of 
the localities given above. It is, I believe, more nearly allied to Clerws than to any 
other genus; but its uniformly coloured elytra and blue body are unlike any thing in 
that genus, and its prothorax is not rounded at the sides and behind as so generally is 
the case. 
EPICLINES. 
Epiclines, Chevrolat, in Guér.-Mén. Ic. Reg. An., Ins. texte, p. 49 (1838). 
Eurycranus et Eurymetopum, Blanchard, d’Orb. Voy., Ins. p. 72. 
Dereutes, Chevr. Mém. Fam. Clér. 1876, p. 29. 
Trichodes, Philippi, Stettin. ent. Zeit. 1864, p. 266. 
Much confusion exists about this genus. Briefly, they are small insects very much 
resembling the genus T’hanasimus in form, of which the majority have prominent eyes 
very slightly cut out, and belonging to the subfamily in which we place them. All the 
species hitherto described (and they are now over forty in number) are peculiar to Chili. 
The one now recorded belongs to the Dereutes section, which have prominent eyes, and 
is evidently nearly allied to such species as 7. viridis, Phil. 
1. Epiclines viridizneus. 
Viridi-eeneus, nitidus; antennis, palpis et pedibus rufis, antennarum clava tarsisque obscuris. Long. 41-5 
millim. 
Hab. Guatema.a, San Joaquin (Champion). 
