250 SUPPLEMENT. 



Hapalips, no less than the total absence of pubescence and the presence of basal sulci 

 on the thorax ; the latter are very short, but deeply impressed, and connected by a 

 transverse impression, the sides and base of the thorax being margined. The thorax 

 is one-fourth wider than long, rather sparsely but distinctly punctured, the width in 

 front scarcely less than at the base, but the front angles are a little deflexed. The 

 elytra are very distinctly punctate-striate, there being about eight striae on each, that 

 nearest the suture at the base being punctured for a short distance only, and then 

 merging in the unpunctured sutural stria ; near the apex all the striae become obsolete. 

 The scutellum is transverse. The legs are pitchy ; the tibiae are simple, a little 

 widened at the tip in the front pair. The eyes are more coarsely faceted than in 

 Hapalips. 



Two examples. 



HAPALIPS (to follow the genus Thallisella). 

 Hapalips, .Reitter, Verh. Ver. Briinn, xv. Abhandl. p. 122 (1877). 



This genus was formerly placed by its author in the Rhizophagidae. He has, 

 however, himself noticed the analogy of the tarsal structure with that of Languria, 

 and Mons. A. Grouvelle, in rejecting them from the association named, considers them 

 better placed with the Languriides. Their general structure — that of the head, the 

 antennae, the prosternum, and occasionally visible, though very obsolete, " abdominal 

 lines," — apart from the form of the tarsi, fully bears out this conclusion. 



Reitter enumerated ten species, all with one exception from the Southern continent 

 of America. Specimens of two species have been lately sent by Mr. H. H. Smith from 

 St. Vincent and Grenada, in the West Indies. We here enumerate five, chiefly 

 from Mexico. They are therefore rather widely distributed *. 



A. Interstices of the elytra not punctured. 



l. Hapalips cribricollis. 



Oblongus, subparallelus, leviter convexus, nitidus, rufo-piceus, parce pubescens ; capite prothoraeeque parce 

 fortiter punctatis, elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, fronte obsolete biimpressa ; prothorace quadrato, 

 lateribus tenuiter marginatis, ante basin obsolete bifoveato ; elytris prothorace paullo latioribus, interstitiis 

 laevibus ; antennarum articulis quarto ad octavum subquadratis, clava abrupta ; capite, prothorace 

 elytrorumque fascia sat lata, pone medium sita, ssepe saturatioribus. Long. 3-75-4 millim. 



Hah. Mexico, Motzorongo in Vera Cruz (Flohr), Teapa in Tabasco {Hoge). 



This species appears to me to be rather near H. gracilicomis, Reitter, and to differ 

 from it in being more shining, with the head and thorax more sparsely and more 

 deeply punctured. The antennae are as long as in that insect, but have the intermediate 



* Mr. Champion informs me that he sent a large number of specimens of this genus from both Guatemala 

 and Panama : these, unfortunately, cannot now be found. 



