414 Mr. H. W. Bates's descriptions of 



Resembles the last in colours and pubescence, but differs 

 remarkably in the large rounded thorax Avith obtusely dilated 

 sides and striated surface. 



Gen. HYPOCRITES, Fahrjsus. 



Coleop. Caffr. in Ofvers. Vetensk.-Akad. Forh. 1872, No. 1, p. 62. 



The type of this genus, H. mendax, differs from the typical 

 Promeces in the $ having 11- instead of 12-jointed antenna?. 

 Although in H. mendax $ these organs are filiform (as in 

 Promeces $ , but much shorter), the species cannot be generic- 

 ally separated from Promeces Krausii (White) and Closteromer^is 

 im}ierialis (White), in which the terminal joints are more or less 

 thickened; it will be convenient, therefore, to extend the limits 

 of Ili/pocrifcs, so as to include all the numerous forms of 

 Promeces in which the antennae are 11-jointed in both sexes, 

 rarely longer than the body even in the $ , with ajncal joints 

 more or less abbreviated and thickened and the third joint dis- 

 tinctly longer than the fourth. The width of the head and 

 thorax and the length of the muzzle vary considerably, and 

 offer no reliable generic characters; some of the species being 

 even more slender than Promeces longipes. A more important 

 difference among the species lies in the form of the femora, 

 the middle and anterior pair especially being distinctly mure 

 abruptly clavate in some than in others; but this docs not 

 correspond with other characters. 



Of the already described species the following belong to 

 Hypocrites: — 



H. mendax, Fahr., I.e. 

 //. anibigiins, id. 



Closely allied to //. iiaperlaUs (White), if not a 

 colour variety of the same. 

 //. Krausii, White, Cat. Long. Brit. Mus. p. 169. 

 H. imperialis, id. p. 168. 

 //. viridis, Pascoe, Journ. Ent. ii, p. 53. 



= claviger, Dalm., Schijnh. Syn. Ins. i, 3, App. 155? 

 = pauper, Fahr., I.e. p. 61? according to the des- 

 cription appears to differ only in the opaque 

 elytra. 



Hypocrites porphyrio. 

 Robustus, supra purpureo-cuprcus, subnitidus, corpore subtus 

 autennis ct pedibus violaceis: capite sjiarsim punctato: antennis 



