CONALIA.—MORDELLISTEN A, 307 
Hab. Mexico, Xucumanatlan, Acaguizotla, Chilpancingo, Tierra Colorada, Amula, 
Teapa (H. H. Smith), Tupataro, Jalapa (Hodge); Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson). 
Sixteen specimens. One or two only from each locality. 
CALYCE. 
Head rather broadly extended behind the eyes and at the sides angularly projecting beyond them; the eyes 
rounded, comparatively small, coarsely granulated; (palpi missing); antennz with joints 5-10 very 
broadly dilated and strongly transverse ; prothorax short, strongly transverse, with a broad median lobe 
in front and behind, the basal lobe produced far beyond the hind angles, the latter obtuse; scutellum 
subtriangular; elytra long, parallel for three-fourths of their length; pygidium very short, broadly 
conical, very little longer than the hypopygium; the penultimate joint of the four anterior tarsi very 
feebly dilated and excavate; the intermediate tibiz and tarsi equal in length; the hind tibie and first 
joint of the hind tarsi with oblique ridges on their outer face, the middle tibie with a single long spur ; 
body broad, parallel, rather depressed. 
This genus is proposed for a species from the State of Panama*. In the shape 
of the head, thorax, and pygidium, as well as in general facies, it differs greatly from 
Mordellistena, to which, however, it is very closely allied. ‘The palpi and the apical 
joint of the antenne are unfortunately broken off in the single example obtained. 
The pygidium is shorter than in any species of Mordellistena. 
1. Calyce fulva. (Tab. XIII. figg. 21; 21 a, antenna.) 
Elongate, above and beneath fulvous, thickly clothed with rather coarse similarly-coloured pubescence. Head 
very broad, somewhat flattened in the centre, and with a short median groove in front, the tips of the 
mandibles and the eyes black ; antennez rather short, joints 1-3 testaceous, 4 slightly infuscate, 5-10 
black (11 missing), 3 and 4 short, 4 much wider than 3, transverse, 5-10 very broadly widened, equal in 
width ; prothorax strongly transverse, broad, rounded at the sides behind, the hind angles obtuse, the 
median basal lobe rounded and much produced; elytra a little narrower than the prothorax, rather 
depressed on the disc, long and parallel ; legs fulvo-testaceous ; the hind tibiz with five (including the 
subapical one), the first joint of the hind tarsi with three (the first rudimentary), short, oblique, parallel 
ridges ; the middle tibiee with a single rather long spur ; wings black. 
Length to end of the elytra 53, to tip of the pygidium 53, millim. ; breadth 2 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Champion). 
MORDELLISTENA. 
Mordellistena, Costa, Faun. Regn. Napol., Mordellid. pp. 16, 31 (1854) ; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. 
v. p. 611. 
Natirrica, Costa, loc. cit. p. 19. 
Tolida, Mulsant, Longipédes, p. 83 (1856). 
Mordellochroa, Emery, Essai monogr. sur les Mordellides, in L’Abeille, xiv. p. 80 (1876). 
Mordellistena contains a very large number of species, the majority of which are 
from the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere. It is very numerously repre- 
sented in the United States of North America, the species diminishing in number 
* In Mr. F. Bates’s collection there is a mutilated specimen of a second (larger) species ; this example, which 
is not marked with any locality, is from Dejean’s collection, and is labelled “ Ripiphorus (?) cardinalis, mihi.” 
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