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beneath of the anterior tarsi in the c? , as in the Anchomenides 
and Feroniades, with the former of which he has no doubt that 
the Pericalides and greater part of the Lebiades are closely 
allied, an exactly intermediate new genus (^Phliaotherates) , 
which he characterizes, completing the evidence. lie gives a 
table of the genera, with sectional characters, founded on the 
mentum being toothed or simple, and the claws denticulated or 
simple. Nycteis and Belonoynatha are considered to be doubt- 
fully distinct from Coptodera ; and Mormolyce, included by 
Lacordaire in the group, is treated as constituting a distinct 
subfamily. The author seems to think it doubtful whether 
Stenoylossa (Chaud.) can be maintained, as the characters attri- 
buted to it in the ligula do not differ essentially from those of 
certain true Coptoderce, Bates intpos out other characters in 
the mentum and thorax. 
According to Bates, his own Coptodera antipodum is to be referred to PTii- 
lophloeus'y C. guttata (Chaud., Agonocheila'), Gemm. and von Har. Oat., is 
not a Coptodera, hut probably a Fhilophloeus ; C. viridis (Sober) belongs to 
Lohius (Mots., a genus synonymous with Crassonychus, Chaud., which was 
omitted from Lacord. Gen. Col. i.) ; ibid. p. 80. 
Stenoglossa corticalis (Chaud., Gemm. & von Har.) is stated to be not 
described anywhere ; ibid, (this is subsequently described by Ohaudoir). 
Thyreopterm lutosus (Newm.) is referred to Philophloitcs : ibid. 
Phlueijthcrates, g. n., Bates, 1. c. p. 70. Close to StetiognathuH, but with the 
claws denticulated for half their length, and 3 joints of anterior tarsi 
slightly dilated, fringed beneath with long hairs, and furnished with a double 
row of squamae. Sp. P. nigropiceus, sp. n.. Bates, 1. c. p. 80, Ega and the 
Tapajos. 
Bates, 1. c., describes the following species, the synonymy of certain of 
which is given by the Becorder on that author’s authority : — 
Coptodera poly gona, p. 72, Ega, Upper Amazons j C. latipennis, ibid,, St. 
Paulo; C. cupreotincta, p. 73, Ega; C. relucetis, ibid., Ega; C. lehioules, p. 74, 
Ega; CAineolata, ibid.. New Guinea; C. cyanella, ibid.. New Guinea and 
Batchian; C. spmipennis, p. 75, Upper and Lower Amazons { = acutipennis, 
Buquet, Chaud.) ; C. chalcites, ibid., Ega ; C. rutila, ibid., Ega ; C. ceneorufa, 
p. 76, Ega and Para; C. dehilis, ibid., St. Paulo { = nitidula, Buquet, Chaud.) ; 
C. versicolor, ibid., Ega and Para; C. megalops, p. 77, Ega and Lower 
Amazons. 
Stenoglossa pallida, p. 78, Ega {=.nigrostriata, lleiche, Chaud.); S.fidmi- 
nans, ibid., Bahia; S. atriceps, ibid., Ega and Ilio Janeiro (=transversa, 
Reiche, Chaud.) ; S. dromioides, p. 79, Amazons and Bahia. 
Chaudotr separates the Pericalides into Thyreopterides and 
Coptoderides , and (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. pp. 113-162) gives 
characters for the genera, and enumerates the species which lie 
associates under the former of those subdivisions, in commence- 
ment of proposed similar treatises on the other Truncatipjennes. 
llis papers treating on both of these groups are slightly pos- 
terior in date to Bateses publication above recorded, and the 
