230 HYPOLAMPSIS. 



species of other adjoining genera by its short filiform antennae, its 

 robust, equate, and parallel elytra, and by its short posterior femora 

 and tibiae. Its facies (although generally similar to) is manifestly 

 different from that of Omototus, from which it may be also at once 

 distinguished by its filiform antennae ; from Hypolampsis it differs by 

 the absence of any transverse depression on the elytra and by the 

 form of its posterior tibiae ; from both groups it is distinguishable also 

 by the form of its maxillary palpi. 



1. Poebates nigripes. (Front, fig. 7.) B.M. 



P. ovata, robusta, fiavo-ferruginea, pubescens ; capite antice (super 

 basin antennarum) oblique foveolato ; thorace transverso, a/pud 

 angulos postieos subdepresso ; elytris punetato-striatis ; antennis 

 nigris ; pedibus nigris, tarsis posticis piceo suffusis. 



Long. corp. 1| lin., lat. f lin. 



Ovate, robust, flavo-ferrugineous, pubescent. Head short, hardly 

 elongated in front, punctate ; between the eyes (above the base of the 

 antenna;) is a Y-shaped depression. Thorax transverse ; the anterior 

 angles depressed, slightly compressed and rounded; two broad post- 

 medial depressions are apparent near the humeral angles. Scutellum 

 small, almost obsolete. Elytra robust, subparallel, punctate-striate. 

 Antennas filiform, with a slight tendency to dilatation towards the 

 apex ; the first joint is broad, dilated at the apex, and inflected out- 

 wards ; the second short and ovate ; the third, fourth and fifth of 

 nearly equal length, but not so long as the first. Legs black, the 

 posterior tarsi being suffused with piceous ; the posterior apical in- 

 flated joint bright black ; the anterior claws rufo-ferrugineous. 



Apparently a common species in the Island of St. Paul's ; found 

 also in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, and taken by my friend 

 Mr. Gray and myself at Constancia during our visit to the Organ 

 Mountains. 



In the collection of the British Museum ; also in those of Messrs. 

 Paly, Gray, Miers, "Waterhouse, and the Rev. H. Clark. 



Genus 38. HYPOLAMPSIS*. 



Palpi maxillares elongati, art. penultimo robusto, quadrato, art. api- 

 cali conico. 



Palpi labiales elongatuli, siibcylindriei. 



Antennae robustce, autfiliforw.es ant dilatatce. 



; - i'no, sub ; \a/ii|/(?, fulgor. 



