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Charis Corinna {Odontocera id., Pascoe, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. 3rd ser. V. p. 290). 



Originally found near Sta Martha, New Granada. One 

 example, Chontales. 



Genus Tethlimmena, nov. gen. 



Sub-fam, Eruscliemince pertinet. Fades Pteroplati. 

 Corpus maxime depressum, postice gradatini dilatatum. 

 Caput longe exsertum, antice brevissimutBj pone oculos 

 elongatum, gradatim angustatum. Oculi magni, late 

 emarginati. Tuberes antennifera paulo elevata. An- 

 tennae ( $ ) corpore paulo breviores, articulis o-lO valdo 

 dilatatisj compressis^ triangularibus, supra oblique setosis 

 nee ciliatis. Thorax trapezoideus, lateribus bisinuatis vel 

 trituberosis. Elytra plana, absque carinis, apice breviter 

 ciliata. Pedes hand robusti ; femora subito clavata ; tarsi 

 breves. Acetabula antica extus angulatim elongata, coxis 

 magnis_, valde exsertis ; mesosteruum inter coxas latissi- 

 mumj planum, acetabulis extus apertis. Abdomen ( ? ) 

 ut in Gen. Obrium ; segmento 2ndo ventrali arcuato, 

 ciliato, sequentibus concavis. 



The strange little creature forming this genus, is the 

 only Tropical American form yet known allied to Erus- 

 cliema, Chaodalis and Pyrocalyinina ; genera belonging to 

 Australia and India. It approaches very near to I'yro- 

 calymma in the form of the anterior haunches, and their 

 sockets. 



Tethlvmmena aliena, n. sp. — Caput thorax et elytra 

 fulva, his triente apicali et capitis lateribus nigris ; an- 

 tennis pedibus corporeque subtus nigris, sternis et coxis 

 testaceis ; elytris planissimis, crebre tequaliter punctatis, 

 opacis. 



Long. 4^ lin. 



One example. 



Callichroma Iwlochlorum, n. sp. — C. pUcato (Leconte) 

 statura simile ; magnum robustum, viridi-asneum, elytris 

 saturate viridibus, sericeis, pedilaus nigris, feraoribus 

 anticis et intermediis (apice exceptis), posticorumque 

 dimidio basali, rufis; tibiis posticis paulo flexuosis, a basi 

 gradatim et late dilatato-compressis ; tuberis antenniferis 

 obtusis; antennia nigris, S corpore plusquam duplo 



