338 llv. G. C. Clianipion on 



COLOTES. 



Culotes, Ericlison, Entoniopraphien, p. 129 (1840) ; Abeille de Perrin, 



Aun. Soc. Eiit. Fr. 18U0, p. '2oo (part.) [type, C vuicuhitna, C&^t. 



(=fn'nof(itu.t, Er.)]; Cliampioii, Ent. Montlilv Mag 1921, p. 70. 

 AiUidiimis, Wollastou, Aun. & Mag, Nat. Hist. (3) ii. p. 337 (1858) 



[ty]ie, C'haropus puncfattis, Er.], 

 Psemlocolotes, Ab, de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. xix, p. ICG (1900) [type, 



P. cribripennis, Ab.]. 



Erichson included three .«pecies under Colotes, the type of 

 wliieli is a common Mediterranean insect. His third species, 

 C. albilateris, is one of many very closely allied S. African 

 forms, which were said by Abeille de Pen in to have 5-jointed 

 anterior tarsi in the males ; but this definition proves to be 

 inaccurate, as I have satisfied mysell' by an examination of 

 the types kindly lent by Dr. Peringuey. Antidipnis was 

 l)ased upon a small, convex, Halticiform insect, which occurs 

 plentifully at the roots of plants on the sandy sea-coasts of 

 S. Europe ; its ? is usually apterous. Colotes, as here 

 understood, includes numerous small forms, with very large 

 or enormously developed fourth or third and fourth joints 

 to the maxillary palpi, and -i-jointed anterior tarsi, in tl;e 

 (j* ; the elytra simple, and the prothorax transverse, with 

 the sides rounded, in both sexes ; the head of the J 

 simple, or hollowed, laterally sulcate, or transversely grooved 

 anteriorly, but never tuberculate or horue^i '<x% in Hedybius \ 

 the wings sometimes wanting in the subgenus Antidipnis, 

 It is almost impossible to describe the maxillary palpi of 

 some of the species without dissection, the third and fourth 

 joints being more or less interlocked and difficult to separate 

 without injury : the third is usually somewhat cup-shapi d, 

 the fourth crescentiform, subsecuriform, scaphiform, or 

 malleiform. The S.African species here enumerated* may 

 be tabulated thus: ? ? only known of Nos. 2, 14, 17, 19, 20; 

 14 omitted from table : — 



66. 



Sect. I. Joints 3 or 4 of maxillary palpi very large, more or less inter- 

 locked or very closely articulate, 4 cre.-ceutiforiu, mallfilorm, or 

 scaphiform ; elytra .«ubparallel or gradually widened posteriorly ; 

 •wings present (as in 2 ). [Colotes, Fr., s. str.] 



1 (20). Elytra wholly or in part metallic, not fasciate, 



2 (3). Elytra without pale lateral streak ; face white, 



flattened Species 1 [2], 



* Several others, uniques, in the Cape Town Museum, are left unnamed 

 for want of sufficient material. Numerous E. African Pseudvcolotes have 

 been named bv Pic. 



