al 
32 Dr. Malcolm Burr’s Revision of the Genus Diplatys. 
with thickened posterior margin joining the postocular 
keels. 
The contrast between the deep black and bright orange 
red is very striking; the females especially have a strong 
superficial resemblance to red and black Staphylinidae. 
Type in the B.M. 
9. Diplatys severus, Borm. 
Diplatys severa, Borm., (1893) p. 2, Pl. I, fig. 3, (1900?) 
9 
Diplatys severa, Kirby, (1904) p. 2. 
x . Burr, (1904?) p. 278 and 280. 
An all-black ally of the preceding, occurring also in 
Central America. De Bormans suggested that it may be 
merely a melanic form of D. jansoni, but the last abdominal 
segment is more strongly dilated and the body is much 
more hairy. 
Type in the B.M. 
10. Diplatys conradti, Burr 
Diplatys conradti, Burr, (1904?) p. 278 and 281, (19079) 
p- 508. 
Diplatys conradti, Borelli, (1907°) p. 346. 
This is an African species allied to D. raffrayi, but 
slenderer, the postocular carina shorter and blunter; the 
penultimate ventral segment of the male has a round 
median emargination, as in the structurally related 
Burmese D. bormansi, but the pronotum is longer. 
Type in the Paris Museum. 
11. Diplatys bormansi, Burr 
Diplatys macrocephala, Borm. (nec Pal.-Beauv.), (1888) 
p. 433, (1894) p. 372, (1900?) p. 9 (text, partim). 
Diplatys nigriceps, Burr, (19042) p. 279 and 284 (partim). 
Diplatys bormansi, Kirby, (1904) p. 1 (nomen nudum). 
ss > Burr, (1910") p. 45, figs. 91, 91a. 
This is a Burmese species which was confused by 
de Bormans with D. macrocephalus, and by me with D. 
nigriceps and D. greent. It differsfrom them all in having 
the penultimate ventral segment of the male emarginate 
in the middle. 
The superficial resemblance to D. nigriceps, D. greent, 
and D. liberatus is very strong. 
Type in my collection. 
