BY A. RAFFRAY. 



Genus Hajiotopsis, n.g. 



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Crassus. Antennae basi distantes, crassas, clava conspicua, 

 triarticulata, articulo ultimo magno. Palpi maxillares magni, 

 articulis 1° minuto, attamen conspicuo, 2 multo majori et crassiori, 

 subcylindrico, intus medio subemarginato, 3 minutissimo, sub- 

 triangulari, 4 maximo, irregulariter subgloboso, basi oblique 

 truncato, extus rotundato, intus subrecto, simplici, haud canali- 

 culato, tantummodo depresso, apice intus foveola rotundata 

 appendicem membranaceum ferenti. Prothorax foveis tribus 

 sulco transverso junctis ornatus. Elytra brevia. Abdomen sub- 

 elongatum, late marginatum, segmentis subsaqualibus. Coxis 

 intermediis haud contiguis, posticis distantibus ; trochanteribus 

 anticis brevibus, intermediis elongatis, posticis subelongatis; 

 tarsorum articulis tribus, 1° minutissimo, 2 subconico 3 prcecedenti 

 fere duplo longiori, unguibus binis ajqualibus. 



This genus is very closely allied to Hamotus from America, 

 and more especially to the subgenus Psendohamotus, from which 

 it differs only by the maxillary palpi; in Hamotus the 1st joint 

 is invisible, the 2nd is long, more or less conical, the 4th one is 

 more or less sulcate inwardly. In Hamotopsis the first joint of 

 the maxillary palpi is rather long and subcorneal ; the 2nd is 

 abruptly thick and cylindrical but a little bent with the internal 

 margin sinuate; the 3rd one is still smaller than in Hamotus; the 

 4th one has no groove, but is only flattened inwardly, and at the 

 apex there is inwardly a fovea in which the membranaceous 

 appendage is inserted. 



Hamotopsis australaslf, n.sp. 



(Plate x., figs. 7 and 8.) 



Oblongus, ferrugineus, elytris castaneis, palpis rufis, sat dense 

 sed breviter fulvo-setosus, disperse et obsoletissime punctatus. 

 Caput deplanatum, latitudine sua longius, ante oculos sat abrupte 

 attenuatum, inter oculos anterius foveis duabus validis, sub- 

 oblongis et in fronte medio fovea altera minori, sulciformi. 



