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only five occur in Central America (only two of them endemic). 
It appears that the limits of the genus in the Mexican Nearctic- 
Neotropical transition zone lie in the State of Vera Cruz on the 
Atlantic side, and in the State of Nayarit on the Pacific side. How- 
ever, the records are not continuous on the Pacific side: none is yet 
known between the Tehuantepec Isthmus and Nayarit. Of the five 
Central American species, three are represented in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, as follows. 
Tesserocerus belti Sharp, 1880. 
Tesserocerus belti Sharp, 1880, Ent. Monthl. Mag., 17:112. Types, $ and 
9, Chontales, Nicaragua. 
Besides the type-locality, this species is known from several locali- 
ties in Costa Rica (Schedl, 1933; 1941) and Quito Ecuador (Schedl, 
1941 ) , as shown in fig. 9. 
New records from the Museum of Comparative Zoology collec- 
tion are: icf, i?, Esquinas, near Golfito, Dept. Puntarenas, Costa 
Rica, 1948, P. & D. Allen col. 
Tesserocerus ericeus Blandford, 1896. 
Tesserocerus ericeus Blandford, 1896, Biol. Centr. Amer., Col., 4(6) : 1 1 5 - 1 1 6. 
Types, $ and 9 , from several localities in Mexico, Guatemala and 
Panama 
In describing the female of this species, Blandford points to the 
fact that it is almost indistinguishable from T. linearis Chapuis, a 
species described from a single female collected in Spain, and which 
Chapuis guessed had been imported from Brazil. In his revision of 
Chapuis’ types of Platypodidae, Schedl (1960a) was unable to locate 
the type of linearis. Its real identity remains to be cleared. It may 
actually correspond to Blandford’s species, since the locality given 
by Chapuis for linearis , Brazil, as said above, is based on pure guess. 
T. ericeus is known only from Central America, from several 
localities in Mexico (Schedl, 1940), Guatemala (Blandford, 1896), 
Costa Rica (Schedl, 1933), and Panama (Blandford, 1896), as 
summarized in fig. 9. 
New records from the Museum of Comparative Zoology collection 
are: icf, Lancetilla, Tela, Honduras, Stadelmann col.; i$, Barro 
Colorado Island, Canal Zone, Panama, 1924. 
Tesserocerus dewalquei Chapuis, 1865. 
Tesserocerus dewalquei Chapuis, 1865, Monogr. Platyp. :3 00, fig. 184. Types, 
$ and 9, Ega, Amazonas, Brazil. 
Tesserocerus aubei Chapuis, 1865, l.c. :301, fig. 185. Types, $ and 9, Santa 
Catarina, Brazil. 
Tesserocerus dejeani Chapuis, 1865, l.c. :303, fig. 187. Types, $ and 9, 
Colombia, Mexico. 
