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CHARIESSA. 
Chariessa, Perty, Del. An. Art. Bras. p. 109; Lac. Gen. Col. iv. p. 478; Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1877, p. 417. 
Brachymorphus, Chevr. Col. Mex. Cent. ii. no. 150. 
Only four species can, I think, be properly retained in this genus; they are very 
closely related to Pelonia, but with an unusually dilated form. One species (rami- 
cornis) is found in Brazil and mimics a Phytophagous insect of the genus Celomera ; 
the others are North American. 
1. Chariessa vestita. 
Brachymorphus vestitus, Chevr. Col. Mex. Cent. ii. no. 150°. 
Chariessa vestita, Klug, Mon. p. 368, t. 1. £. 10; Spin. Mon. ii. p. 88”, t. 45. f. 2. 
Hab. Mexico, Toxpam 1, Cordova (Sallé), Paso del Macho (Hége); Guatemata, El 
Reposo, Rio Maria Linda (Champion); Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson).—Soutu 
AMERICA, Brazil 2. 
A well-known beautiful insect, but apparently rare. Two of the examples from 
Chontales have the body above and the elytra obscurely reddish instead of violet, 
and seem to be more densely clothed with woolly pubescence. These possibly corre- 
spond to the var. A of Spinola. Ihave not seen specimens from South America myself ; 
but as this insect has such a wide range north of the isthmus, it may, of course, occur 
there. 
PELONIUM. 
Pelonium, Spinola, Mon. i. p. 347; Lac. Gen. Col. iv. p. 479 ; Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 417. 
Lasiodera, Gray, Griff. An. K. Ins. t. 48. 
Philhyra, Cast. Silber. Rev. Ent. iv. p. 53. 
Enoplium auctorum ; Lampyris, Forster. 
This is an extensive genus, composed of somewhat variable elements, but having 
strong natural affinities, which it would be difficult to keep distinct. It embraces, 
broadly speaking, those members of the Cleride which have the tarsi apparently four- 
jointed, the antennee ten- or eleven-jointed, terminated by a three-jointed serrate club, the 
intermediate joints being all distinct and not hairy on their inner edges. Thus taken, 
it isa genus rich in species in equatorial North and South America, witha few aberrant 
species passing the tropical limits in both continents. Species very closely representing 
this genus occur in New Zealand, and in other parts of the world, as Laos, from which 
country a species (eatraneum, Gorh.) is hardly distinguishable, and has been referred 
toit. Of true Pelonia, i. e. of American species, about eighty are described, only three of 
which have been recorded from Central America. The districts of Panama and Costa 
Rica, however, are probably not less rich in species, in proportion to their areas, than 
South America. 
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