200 LONGICORNIA. 
belongs, however, to Phea by its divided eyes and the broad obtuse basal tooth of its 
claws, and approaches Tetraopes in the anterior coxee being contiguous instead of sepa- 
rated by a narrow prosternal process as they are in Phwa. 
21. Pha crocata. 
Phea crocata, Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, v. p. 2881. 
Hab. Panama (Boucard).—Sovuts America, Colombia 1. 
Differs from the other species of the genus in the form of the basal tooth of its tarsal 
claws, which, though short, is more narrow and pointed. . 
TETRAOPES. 
Tetraopes, Serville, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1835, p. 68; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. ix. p. 879. 
This genus is rather more northerly in its range than Phwa, many of the species 
being peculiar to the United States, and extending to Canada. None seems to be found 
further south than Nicaragua; about fourteen are known. 
1. Tetraopes cleroides. | 
Tetraopes cleroides, Thomson, Class. Long. p. 66°. 
Hab. Mexico 1, Oaxaca, Etla (Sallé), 
In the less convex surface of the elytra this and the following species connect the 
genus Tetraopes with Phea. 
2. Tetraopes comes. 
T. cleroidi similis, sed multo magis elongatus. Niger, dense ceeruleo-griseo tomentosus, elytris miniaceis, humeris, 
macula rotunda majore discoidali ante medium fasciaque curvata paullo ante apicem nigris, post fasciam . 
area apicali ceruleo-grisea; thorace cylindrico, utrinque modice tuberoso, umbone oblongo, apud latera et 
basin sulco profundo delimitato, supra nigro-penicillato; scutello nigro-hirto ; elytris medio planatis, basi 
utrinque (prope scutellum) sublobatis, fere levibus, basin versus tantum sparse subtiliter lineatim-pun- 
ctatis; antennis ¢ |quam corpus longioribus, filiformibus. 
Long. 63 lin. ¢. 
Hab. Guatemata, Capetillé (Champion). 
In colours resembling TZ. cleroides, but the round discoidal spot of the elytra very 
much larger, and the thoracic boss (similar in form) clothed with a longer and denser 
brush of black hairs. 
3. Tetraopes varicornis. 
Tetraopes varicornis, Castelnan, Hist. Nat. Col. ii. p. 487 (1840)'. 
Tetraopes undecimpunctatus, Thomson, Archiv. Ent. i. p. 60 (1857), var. 
Hab. Mexico’, Chalchicomula (Sallé), near the capital (Flohr), Esperanza (Hége). 
