458 Mr. H. W., Bates on the Longicorns uf ihe Amazon Vauey. 
being twice the length of the body. The basal joint is very thin 
at its origin, and is dilated beyond the middle into a pyriform 
club ; in length it departs from the almost universal rule in the 
subtribe Acanthoderitz by being as long as the third, The fore 
tarsi in the ¢ are strongly dilated and fringed. 
Cyclopeplus Bates, Thomson. 
Cyclopeplus Batesvi, Thoms. Class. de Céramb. p. 32, 
Ega, UpperAmazons, on dead branches on the margins of small 
tobacco plantations in the forest. The form of the insect is. quite 
an exception to the prevailing character of the Longicorn pre 
the elytra being excessively dilated—in fact, as near as possibie 
hemispherical in shape, instead of elongated as is the almost 
universal rule. When I first met with it, I was deceived by its 
great resemblance to a common insect of the family Eumorphidze 
(Corynomalus discoideus) which swarms at times on the same de- 
caying branches of trees on which the Longicorn is found. It | 
is true the size is much larger than that of the Corynomalus, but 
this is not noticed when they are in situ. The very curious 
black knob on the fourth antennal joint assists greatly to tom- 
plete the disguise; for this mimics the terminal club of the an- 
tenn of the Corynomalus; and as the remaining joints in the 
Longicorn are very slender and imperceptible when the insect is 
on the tree, the organs in motion resemble precisely those of the 
Corynomalus. It is further remarkable that the Longicorn 
mimics especially a pale variety of Corynomalus discoideus, which 
is the prevailing form of the species at Ega. 
A second species of this genus is known from Cayenne,—the 
Cyclopeplus cyaneus (Thoms. /. c.). I do not know whether this 
has its analogue in the same country, in a species of Coryno- 
malus. Both species are excessively rare. The Anisocerine fur- 
nish many instances of adaptive mimetic resemblances; and to 
this peculiarity of the group is no doubt attributable the strange 
divergences or aberrations of form which it contains. In addi- 
tion to the clearer cases which I have noticed, there are others 
not quite so evident. For instance, I think our Hoplistocerus is 
the mimetic analogue of a species of Stenochia, a Heteromerous 
genus, and the Acanthotritus dorsalis of South-east Brazil ap- 
pears to resemble much a species of Heilipus, belonging to the 
family Curculionide. The Onychoceri, instead of mimicking 
other imsects, have deceptive resemblances to the bark of trees 
on which they live. A tendency to mimetic resemblances seems 
to run in certain groups; and these groups are remarkable for 
the aberrations from their types in minor points of structure or 
in facies, and for the rarity and diversity of the specific forms 
which they contain. 
[To be continued. ] 
