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joints bead-shaped, with the club more abrupt. The front angles of the thorax are 

 Subdentate a little below the actual angle, nearly as shown in figure 2 of the plate 

 accompanying Emitter's descriptions. The head is distinctly bifoveolate, but the foveae 

 are small and not deep. In the majority (five out of eight) of the specimens sent the 

 head and thorax are dark pitchy-red, and the elytra have an ill-defined rather curved 

 fascia, and a very indistinct spot near the scutellum, darker than the ground-colour. 



2. Hapalips filum. 



Hapalips filum, Reitter, Verh. Ver. Brunn, Abhandl. xv. p. 125 1 ; Gorham, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 335 \ 

 Hob. Mexico, Frontera in Tabasco {Edge).— Colombia 1 ; Antilles, Grenada 2 . 



I refer a single example sent by Hoge from Tabasco to this species. 



B. Interstices of the elytra 'punctured. 



3. Hapalips reitteri. 



Elongato-oblongus, nitidulus, capite prothoraceque pareius, elytris densius pubescens, fuscus vel obscure 

 ferrugineus; capite inter oculos transversim late biimpresso; antennis capite protboraceque sesqui 

 brevioribus, articulis quarto ad octavum nodiformibus, clava abrupta ; prothorace quadrato, cum capite 

 pareius distincte punctato, lateribus tenuiter reflexo marginatis haud crenulatis, disco aequali, basi 

 obsolete biimpresso ; elytris perobsolete punctato-sulcatis, interdum punctato-striatis, interstitiis seriatim 

 confuse punctatis. Long. 5*5-6 millim. 



Hal. Mexico, Jalco'mulco in Vera Cruz (Flohr), Vera Cruz (Salle). 



This species by its large size seems distinct from any yet described, except //. grandis, 

 Eeitter, from Colombia, from which the punctuation of the interstices of the elytra 

 separates it. The eyes are large and prominent, but the head is narrower by one-quarter 

 than the thorax. The latter is nearly square, not wider than long ; the front angles of 

 the reflexed margins are not so far advanced as the front margin, looking as though 

 they were excised below the eyes; its surface is covered with distinct, somewhat 

 stellate, flat-bottomed punctures, which here and there are confluent. The elytra have 

 the rows of punctures irregular, often confluent, while the punctures of the interstices 

 are scarcely smaller, but less confused than those of the striae ; near the scutellum, 

 however, and for some way along the suture, they are quite confused with those of the 

 striae. The general colour is obscurely ferruginous, the elytra often becoming nearly 

 fuscous with lighter shoulders. The pubescence in this insect (as in the other species 

 here described) is golden and serially arranged. The metasternal and abdominal lines 

 are in the form of very fine raised carinas and are very short. 



I refer seven examples to this species, all of which are from the Salle collection, with 

 the exception of the one from Jalcomulco. 



4. Hapalips flohri. 



Oblongo-elongatus, nitidulus, parce pubescens, piceus, capite prothoraceque crebre distincte ac profunde 

 punctatis ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis evidenter seriatim punctatis ; fronte utrinque late obsolete 



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