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Genotype. — Procinura aemula Cope. 



Range. — Sierra Madre of southwestern Chihuahua. 



Species. — One. 



PROCINURA AEMULA Cope 



Procinura aemula Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 18, 1879, p. 262. 

 ScolecopMs aemulus Cope, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), pp. 1109-1110, 

 fig. 317. 



Type.—Kcdidi. Nat. Sci. Phila. No. 11641. 

 Type locality. — Batopilas, Chihuahua. 



Range. — Southwestern Chihuahua; known only from the type 

 locality. 



Genus PSEUDOFICIMIA Bocourt 



Pseudofichnia Bocotirt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'Amerique cen- 

 trale, Kept., livr. 9, 1883, p. 572.— Taylor and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 

 vol. 28, 1943, pp. 241-251, figs. 1-4, pi. 21. 



Genotype. — Pseudoflciniia pulchra Bocourt. 



Range. — Western Mexico from southern Sonora to central Guerrero. 



Species. — Two recorded. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF PSEUDOFICIMIA 



1. Hemipenial spines very small, uniform in size, grading into still smaller 

 spines in the area of calyces ; latter poorly formed, tending to coalesce ; 

 median yellow spots between dark blotches distinct, one to one and one- 

 half scales wide frontalis 



Hemipenial spines relatively very large, 35 or less, not grading into very 

 small spines in the area of the calyces ; latter very distinct ; median 

 yellow spots between dark blotches nearly obsolete pulcherrima 



PSEUDOFICIMIA FRONTALIS (Cope) 



Toluca frontalis Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 16, 1864, p. 167. 

 Conopsis frontalis Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, 1929, p. 182. — Taylor 



and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 25, 1938 (1939), pp. 241-242, pi. 



23, fig. 3.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 26, 1939 (1940), pp. 455-456 



(part). 

 Pseudoflcimia frontalis Gijnthek, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rept. Batr., 1893, 



p. 96.— TAYLOE and Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 28, 1942, pp. 243-246, 



figs. 1 (map) , 2, pi. 21, fig. 1. 

 Pseudoflcimia pulchra Bocourt, Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans I'AmS- 



rique centrale, Rept., livr. 9, 1883, pp. 572-573, pi. 35, fig. 12 (type locality, 



Mexico; type in Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris). 



ry;?e.— U.S.N.M. Nos. 31424^5, two cotypes. 



Type locality. — Colima. 



Range. — Possibly southwestern Durango and southern Sinaloa 

 southward to central Guerrero (known from the states of Jalisco, 

 Colima, Sinaloa, Michoacan, Nayarit, and Guerrero; a record for 

 Ventanas, Durango^ may or may not belong here). 



