210 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi.xviir. 



Legs. Covered with greenish pubescence and longer blue hairs. Claws 

 dark brown, deeply bifid. Pulvilli very small. Calcar of middle tibiae scarcely 

 to be called " bifid " ; long and thin, the anterior side minutely serrate and it 

 terminates with some small teeth, the hinder one being transformed into a 

 stout, strongly curved spine. 



Long. tot. 1 6 mm., lat. abd. 5.5 mm. 



Peru, Apurimac (Otto Garlepp leg.). 



Under Cyphomelissa (Rev. Mus. Paulista, 1902, Vol. V, p. 495,. 

 and Plate XIV, fig. 5, a-d) I include those species described as 

 Melissa which have a more or less bumble-bee-like shape and the 

 third cubital cell petiolate, triangular or nearly triangular. The fol- 

 lowing species belong here : 



1. C. diabolica (Friese) ^ C. pernigra Schrottky, the typeof__the_genus. 

 Wholly black with a broad excavated middle spur. Brazil, S. Paulo and 

 Espirito Santo. 



2. C. snt>erba (Dcke.) ; thorax and base of abdomen with yellow pubes- 

 cence ; middle spur deeply bifid. Lower Amazons. 



3. C. viridis (Friese) ; bluish green with small white lateral patches on 

 abdomen, third cubital cell petiolate ; middle spur thin, terminating in one long 

 and one very short straight spine. Brazil, S. Paulo. 



4. C. jenseni (Friese) ; blue, the male with white pubescence on head and 

 anterior part of thorax ; third cubital cell not completely triangular although 

 much narrowed above ; middle spur almost as in garleppi, but a little broader. 

 Argentina, Mendoza, Tucuman. 



5. C. garleppi n. sp. Described above. Peru. 



NEW CLAVICORN COLEOPTERA. 



By Charles Schaeffer. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Family Erotylid^. 



I. Hapalips texanus, new species. 



Elongate, testaceous, shining, pubescence of upper surface rather short 

 and not dense. Head narrower than the prothorax, obliquely impressed on- 

 each side at middle ; moderately coarsely punctate, punctures well separated at 

 middle but more crowded at sides. Antennae reaching to the base of elytra ; 

 first joint stout, second joint narrower than the first but wider than the third,, 

 the latter twice as long as the fourth, fourth to eighth beadlike and gradually 

 but feebly increasing in width, joints nine to eleven abruptly longer. Pro- 

 thorax scarcely wider than long ; sides straight to a little below the apical 



