and Central American Telephorinae. 21 



Lee, also belongs here. The Mexican and Central American 

 forms are divisible into three groups according to the 

 number of cleft tarsal claws — 3, 2, or 1 — in (^. The other 

 characters given in the following table are also taken from 

 the same sex.* 



I. Anterior, intermediate, and posterior tarsi 



with one of the claws cleft : species 

 Telephoriform. 

 a. Anterior tarsi with the cleft claw tri- 

 angularly dilated or lobed at base; 

 prothoracic margins notched at or 



behind middle Species 1-10. 



6. Anterior tarsi with the cleft claw more 

 feebly dilated at base : species small or 

 of moderate size. 

 a^. Prothoracic margins obliquely com- 

 pressed at middle and notched in 

 front of the hind angles .... Species 11. 

 b^. Prothoracic margins notched at or 

 behind middle, the basal notch 

 wanting Species 12-25. 



II. Anterior tarsi with one of the claws broadly 



lobed at base and the intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi with one claw cleft. 



c. Ventral segment 7 divided into a pair of 



claspers; prothoracic margins notched 



at middle : species small .... Species 26. 



d. Ventral segment 7 simply divided down 



the middle, 

 c^. Antennae slender or moderately ser- 

 rate; prothoracic margins notched 

 at or behind middle : species Tele- 

 phoriform, Lampyriform, or Lyci- 



form Species 27-50. 



d^. Antennae broader and more tapering, 

 strongly serrate : species Lyciform. 

 a^. Prothoracic ' margins notched at 

 middle or at some distance before 

 the base Species 51-55. 



* Except in species 6, 13, 19, 21, 54, 55, 57, 60, the females 

 only of which are known to me. 



