iPiT.] 195 



A 2 t"i"*Jii^ Kg'i agrees very nearly with Pie's description of U. pal- 

 lid ipes\ except that the head can hardly he described as " grosse," or the 

 antennae as "tres rohustes," but these may be sexual differences. An 

 elongate, shining insect, piceous in colour, with the head at the sides and 

 in front, the sides of the prothorax broadly, a narrow suhmarginal vitta 

 on the elytra, and the legs (a dark ring on the femora excepted) pale 

 testaceous ; the head almost smooth, oldiquely narrowed behind the ej^es, 

 excavate and longitudinally sulcate between them, the eyes small, trans- 

 verse, somewhat distant, the neck broad ; antennae with the third and 

 following joints [6-11 missing] stout; the prothorax transverse, wider 

 than the head, smooth, with a very deep, large, subtriangular excavation 

 on each side of the disc ; the elytra closely crenato-striate, with narrow, 

 costate, faintly uniseriate-punctate interstices, the eighth widened and 

 convex ; the legs slender ; the raised intercoxal portion of the prosternum 

 extremely narrow; the meta thoracic episterna without groove along their 

 inner edge. 



It is doubtful if this species really belongs to JJt'oplatopsis. 



Emydodes Pasc. 



1. — Emydodes collaris. 



S • Emydodes coUaris Pasc, Journ. Ent. i, p. 50, pi. 8. fig. 3. 



S. Antennae long, joints 3-10 stout, triangular, bifid at the apex as 

 seen I'rotn within. 



5 . Antennae shorter, simply serrate. 



Rnh. : Amazons, Para [type: c?], Ega, San Paulo [de Olivenca] 

 {H. W. Bates). 



There are six examples of this species in the Museum, including the 

 type. The remarkable form of the (S -antenna (which may be said to be 

 biramose or bipectinate in d' ) is not shown in Pascoe's rough figure. 

 The thickening of the intermediate and posterior tibiae, due to the 

 matting of the hairs in the type, is exaggerated in his illustration, and 

 the three other males before me show no trace of this character. The 

 head varies from red to black. E. nigriceps Pie, from the Rio Mixiollo, 

 Peru [L'Echange, xxiii, p. 183 (1907), and xxvii, p. 158 (1911)], seems 

 to be based on a black-headed $ of the same species. 



(To he concluded.) 



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