366: HETEROMERA. 
2: Meloe dugesi,. (Tab. XVII. figg. 2,3; 2a, lateral view of the cedeagus.) 
Black, sometimes with a faint violaceous lustre, ae or subopaque; the legs blackish-violaceous,’ the 
antenne in part violaceous. Head and prothorax smooth or with widely scattered very fine punctures ; 
the prothorax a little longer than broad, in some specimens as broad as long, gradually narrowing from a 
little before the middle to the base, the base emarginate in the centre, thé disc usually with a faintly 
‘impressed smooth median line; elytra almost smooth or with faint longitudinal wrinkles ; antenne elon- 
_ gate—joints 5-7 distorted and dilated in the male, stouter than the following joints in the ee abdomen 
—above almost smooth or faintly rugulose, beneath thickly and finely, in some specimens more sparsely, 
punctured ; sixth ventral segment triangularly emarginate in the male ; legs densely and finely punctured. 
Length 12-36 millim. (¢ @.) 
Hab. Muxico (Mus. Brit.), Pinos Altos in Chihuahua (Buchan-Hepburn), Durango 
city, Villa Lerdo in Durango, J alapa (Hoge), Amula in Guerrero H. Smith), Toluca, 
Cordova (Sallé); Guatemana, Tepan (Conradt). 
c! 
Thirty-four specimens, the majority of which are from Villa Lerdo and. Jalapa. 
Closely allied to WM. tropicus, and perhaps only a variety of that species. Some 
examples are black, smooth, and quite opaque. Others, equally dull black, have the 
thorax very finely and distinctly punctured: such specimens closely resemble the 
North-American MM. strigulosus, Mann.; they have the thorax, however, always more 
narrowed behind than in that species (of which I have three Californian examples 
before me for comparison). MW. dugest differs from MM. tropicus by its black or 
violaceous-black colour, opaque surface, and less elongate thorax, the sides of the latter 
Jess angularly dilated anteriorly and less sinuate behind. The female is exceedingly — 
like I. levis, but may be easily known-from it by the form of the antenne. The 
thorax varies in width : in three males from Jalapa it is very narrow, and in one male 
from Cordova it is, on the contrary, very broad. 
This species appears to have been quite overlooked by Dugés, after whom [ have. 
much pleasure in naming it. In the British Museum there is a single female example 
of a Meloe, labelled “ Mexico (Glennie),” which is apparently an extreme form of 
M. dugesi; from which it differs. by its stouter antenne (their penultimate joints not 
much enger than broad), and very broad head and thorax. Segue 
** Antenne simple. (MELOE, Muls. ; TREIODOUs, Dugés.) 
a. Antenne thickened towards the tip, more distinctly so in the female ; elongate in 
the male, much shorter in the female.’ 
3. Meloe levis. (Tab. XVII. fig. 3, lateral view of the cedeagus.) 
Meloe levis, Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 249, t. 18. fig. 4°; Brandt & Erichs. Monogr. gen. 
| Meloés, p. 135’. 
Meloe cordillere, Chevr. in Guérin’s Icon. Régne Anim. 111., Ins. p. 133, t. 35. fig. 6°. 
| Treiodous, cordillere, Dugés, An. Mus. Michoacano, ii. p. 35 (1889) *. 
“ Meloe’ sublevis, Lec. Proc. Acad. Phil. vii. p. 84°; Col. of Kansas and Eastern New Mexico, p-56°; 
Journ. Acad. Phil. (2) iv. p. a8". tee 
ew + aol 
\ pr} sie, 
‘ A ahh tate i 
= Mal | 
@7b°: 2 (4 
} t 
