Longicornia of Mexico and Central America. IGl 



Ilab. Mexico, Atoyac in Vera Cruz (//. //. Smith). 



This genus {Charis, Newm.) is new to the Central- 

 American fauna.* 



Pachymerola, nov. gen. 



Gen. Coremice (Serv.) proxime af3&ne, corpore gracili, sed cou- 

 spicue differt femoribus posticis corpore paullo longioribus, gra- 

 datim valde clavatis subtiis (cum tibiis) minute deuticnlatis, tibiis- 

 que posticis nudis. Palpi breves, articulo apicali baud angus- 

 tato, late truncate. Antennae lougitudini corpori ajquales ; scape 

 clavato, articulis 3io (scape subajquali) 4te et 5to gradatim per- 

 parum longioribus, 6 — 11 gradatim brevioribus 6to 5to pauUo 

 brcviori, 5 — 11 pauUulum compressis apicibusque extus angu- 

 latis. Thorax gi-acilis, post medium brevissime tuberculatus, antice 

 paullo angustatus. Elytra linearia, ad apicem singulatim acumi- 

 nata. Pedes mediecriter elongati, tarsi articulo Imo 2 et 3 conjunctis 

 subaequali. 



The mesothoracic epimera reach the middle haunch- 

 sockets, as in Coremia, and the group to which that 

 genus belongs. The surface of the body is nearly 

 opaque. 



Pachymerola vitticollis, n. sp. (PI. VI., fig. 11). 



Nigra, opaca, supra tenuiter, subti;s densius, griseo-pubescens, 

 elytris obscure senescentibus, lateribus a humeris usque ultra 

 medium subnitidis ; thorace utrinque vitta recta flavo-grisea. 

 Elytra subtiliter alutacea, et sparsim aspere punctulata. Long. 

 8| millim., ^ ?. 



Hah. Mexico, Chilpancingo in Guerrero, 4600 ft. 

 (//. //. Smith). A single example, apparently <? . 



Cyllene rohinice, Forst., Nov. Sp. Ins., p. 43 (1771) 

 (Leptura) ; inctus, Drury, 111., ii., Index (1773) (Leptiira) ; 

 i., p. 91, t. 41, f. 2 ; fiexuosiis, Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 191 

 (1775) {CaUidium). 



Hah. Mexico, Villa Lerdo in Durango (Hdge). 



A new species to the Mexican fauna. The specimens 

 do not differ in the least from others with which I have 

 compared them from the Southern States. 



'■'■'■ The name Cliaris is long preoccupied in Lepidoptera (Hiibner, 

 1816), and I propose to change it to Charisia. — [G. C. Champion.] 



