78 Mr, G. C. Champion's Revision of the Mexican 



Hab. Mexico {coll. Pic; Truqui, in Mus. Brit.), 

 " Temisco " [ ? Temascala in Puebla] {Mus. Oxon.). 



The above diagnosis was drawn up, and the same specific 

 name selected, before Pic's description of A. mexicanus 

 had been seen by me. There can be Uttle doubt, however, 

 that his insect belongs to the same species, the type of 

 A. mexicanus having the prothorax wholly rufo-testaceous, 

 as in one of the females in the British Museum. The six 

 examples examined (4 (^, 2 $) vary in the development of 

 the black discoidal patch on the prothorax, which in the 

 female is small or entirely wanting, and the intermixed 

 semi erect hairs on the upper surface are often abraded. 

 The male anterior tarsi are almost simple, the obhque 

 basal joints being very sUghtly modified. A. coelestinus, 

 Gorh., has similar anterior feet in the male, except that the 

 third joint is larger and the first shorter. A. mexicanus 

 would be almost as well placed in Anthocomus ; the latter, 

 however, has the front tarsi similarly formed in the two 

 sexes. 



MiCROMIMETES. 



Micromimetes, WoUaston, Journ. Ent. i, p. 439 (1862). 



Anthocomus discimacula, Gorh., from Mexico, has the 

 anterior tarsi and maxillary palpi formed in the male sex 

 exactly as in Micromimetes, WoU., based on two small 

 species from the Canary Is., and it can quite well be in- 

 cluded in that genus. The simple 4-jointed front feet of 

 the male also brings it near Colotes, Er., under whic|i 

 Wollaston's genus is sunk by Abeille de Perrin ; but the 

 apical joint of the maxillary palpi is oblong-ovate and 

 narrowed towards the tip, as in both sexes of Attalus. 



1. Micromimetes discimacula. (Plate II, figs. 15, 15a, 

 antenna, 156, front tarsus, (^.) 



Anthocomus discimacula, Gorh., Biol. Centr.-Am., Coleopt. 

 iii, 2, p. 116 (excl. var.). 



(J. Antennae testaceous, maculated with black (joints 1, 6, and 8 

 conspicuously black above), very feebly serrate, joints 2 and 3 sub- 

 equal, 4 and 5 shorter, 6 and 8 a little stouter than 7, 9 and 10 elongate, 

 widened outwards, 11 oblong-ovate, much longer than 10; anterior 

 legs (the base of the tibiae excepted), intermediate trochanters, 

 and intermediate femora to near the tip, testaceous. 



9. Antennae (joints 2-7 excepted) and legs in great part black; 



