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GLIPODES. 
Glipodes, Leconte, Proc. Acad. Phil. xiv. p. 47 (1862)’; J. B. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 84 
(1882). 
Leconte ! states that ‘the species of this genus are cuneiform, narrow, fuscous, and 
covered with a dense sericeous brown pubescence. The scutellum is rounded-trian- 
gular; the anal style is moderately long; the hind tibie have no subapical ridge 
(which exists in all the other genera), but are carinate along the dorsal line, and 
furnished with a long oblique ridge on the outer surface, which is connected with the 
dorsal ridge near the tip; the first joint of the hind tarsi has two oblique ridges. The 
eyes are coarsely granulated; the antenne are feebly serrate. The last joint of the 
maxillary palpi is scalene-triangular in form, and in the male of G. sericans is covered 
on the under surface with a dense brush of short fine hair; in the same sex there is at 
the base of the last joint an external articulated bifurcated appendage, the branches of 
which are as long as the joint; no vestige of this is seen in the female ; the last joint 
of the labial palpi of both sexes of G. sericans is triangular and broadly emarginate at 
tip; in G. helva the same joint is bell-shaped and truncate at tip.” In the single 
Central-American Glipodes, which I refer without hesitation to G. sericans (Melsh.), 
the first, second, and third joints of the hind tarsi have each a single oblique ridge 
extending to about half the length of the joint (there being no trace of a second ridge 
on the first joint *), the intermediate tibie are (as in Glipa) longer than the tarsi of the 
same pair of legs, and have each a single long spur, and the penultimate joint of the 
anterior and middle tarsi is dilated and excavate. The middle tibiz are conspicuously 
longer than the tarsi of the same pair of legs, a character overlooked by Leconte and 
also by J. B. Smith. 
1. Glipodes sericans. (Tab. XIII. figg. 19,3; 19a, labium; 194, maxilla 
and maxillary palpus.) - 
Mordella sericans, Melsh. Proc. Acad. Phil. 11. p. 312°. 
Glipodes sericans, Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. xiv. p. 48°; J. B. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x. p. 84, 
t. 2. fig. 10°. . 
Hab. Nortn America, Pennsylvania 1, Middle 23, Southern ?%, and Western States ?. 
—Mexico, Tapachula in Chiapas (Hége); British Honpuras (Blancaneaux); GuaTE- 
MALA, El Reposo (Champion); Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Of this very widely distributed species we have obtained nine examples from Central 
America. ‘They differ from the above-cited descriptions in their blacker ground-colour 
and in having a more or less distinct transverse patch (narrowly divided at the suture) 
at the base of the elytra, and the disc of the thorax also, blackish-pubescent, the rest 
* Dr. Horn has examined one of our specimens, and he informs me that his example of G. sericans agrees 
with it. 
BIOL. CENTR.-AMER., Coleopt., Vol. IV. Pt. 2, October 1891. Q9RR 
