THE BEETLES OF THE FAMILY CLERIDAE COLLECTED 

 ON THE MULFORD BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF 

 THE AMAZON BASIN, 1921-1922 



By Edward A. Chapin, 



Associate Entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture 



About two hundred specimens of beetles belonging to the family 

 Cleridae were collected in the course of the field work of the Mulford 

 expedition to the upper Amazon region, nearly all being taken by Dr. 

 W. M. Mann, entomologist of the party. The route of the expedition 

 is shown on the map (fig. 1), which has been adapted from that pre- 

 pared and published by Dr. T. E. Snyder in his report on the termites. 

 Most of the Cleridae came from two localities, Tumupasa (December, 

 1921) and Cavinas (January-February 1922). A few specimens were 

 taken at the following places: Huachi (August-September, 1921), 

 Rurrenabaque (October-December, 1921), Ya^ou (February, 1922), 

 and Cachuela Esperanza (March, 1922), 



The territory surveyed by the Mulford expedition lies to the west 

 and adjoins that which was investigated by the Stanford expedition 

 in 1911. The 12 species of Cleridae obtained by that expedition have 

 been studied and reported on by A. B. Wolcott.^ Some years before 

 this, 12 species from the western Amazon region were described as 

 new by A. Kuwert,^ his material coming mainly through Doctor 

 Staudinger. Twenty species belonging to eight genera are contained 

 in the Mulford collection. These three collections contain no species 

 of Tillinae, 1 genus with 1 species of Hydnocerinae, 1 genus with 6 

 species of Clerinae, no Thaneroclerinae, 5 genera with 20 species of 

 Epiphloeinae, 2 genera with 3 species of Enopliinae, and 1 genus and 

 species of Korynetinae, or a total of 10 genera and 31 species actually 

 recorded from this region. 



1 Psyche, vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 71-77, pis. 6-7, 1912. 



2 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 37, pp. 492-497, 1893; vol. 38, pp. 6-13, 1894. 



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