CEPHALOPLECTUS.—HYPOCYPTUS. 297 
On Tab. VII. fig. 1 A is an outline of the middle leg: 1 B is intended to give an idea 
of the underside of the head as seen when extended ; in it « represents the buccal cavity 
closed by the labrum, 8 a portion of the maxilla bearing its palpus, y such part of the 
antenna as can then be seen. ‘The appearance of eyes in fig. 1 is illusory. 
1. Cephaloplectus godmani. (Tab. VII. fig. 1.) 
Depressus, latus, posterius acuminatus, ferrugineus; abdomine flavo-ferrugineo; dense pubescens, thorace 
elytrisque pallide cinereo-pubescentibus, setulisque erectis adspersis. 
Long. 4 millim. 
Hab. Panama, Bugaba (Champion). 
Head scarcely visible, antennze quite concealed. Thorax very large, its hind angles 
much produced backwards. FElytra not so long and scarcely so broad as the thorax, a 
little narrowed behind, the hind angles extremely obtuse; they have no visible 
punctuation, but an excessively fine transverse rugulosity, and in this respect resemble 
the thorax. The hind body is rather paler in colour than the anterior parts, and bears 
a concolorous, dense depressed pubescence. 
The habits of this curious insect must remain for the present quite unknown. 
Mr. Champion found a single specimen in a track of the foraging ants (£citon) in the 
dense virgin forest ; but though he subsequently frequently watched the ants he could 
find no other example. From the condition of the specimen and the account 
Mr. Champion has given me of its discovery it is quite clear that it was dead at the time, 
and probably had been dropped by an ant who was carrying it off. 
Subfam. TACHYPORIN AK. 
HYPOCYPTUS. 
Hypocyphtus, Mannerheim, Brachelytr. p. 58. 
Hypocyptus, Erichson, Col. Mark Brand. i. p. 387 ; Gen. et. Spec. Staph. p. 214. 
This is a genus of twenty or thirty species of very minute and obscure insects found 
in the European and North-American regions ; it may, however, prove to be of wider 
distribution, as Kraatz has described a species from Ceylon. 
1. Hypocyptus debilis. 
Convexus, parce longius pubescens, fere impunctatus, nitidus, nigricans; prothoracis marginibus late flavis, 
abdominis segmentorum marginibus posterioribus, antennis pedibusque testaceis, elytris rufis. 
Long. 14 millim. 
Hab. Guatemata, El Tumbador 2500 feet (Champion). 
Antenne moderately long, rather stout; third, fourth, and fifth joints more slender 
than the others, closely connected together, so that they are difficult to distinguish from 
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