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red berries. Altogether, Gibraltar iu November presented a decidedly 

 attractive appearance. But our stay here was short, and after 

 experiencing some rough weather off Cape St. Vincent, we made 

 Plymouth safely on the morning of November 6th. 



Wadham College, Oxford : 



November 2-ith, 1915. 



STUDIES IN HELOPHORINI. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



lO.—HELOPHORUS {continued from p. 112). 



24. — HelopJiorus hilaris, sp. n. 



Palpis, antennis pedibusque flavis, illis elongatis, gracilibus ; capite thoraceque 

 laete inetallescentibus, hoc tenuiter sulcata, obsolete sculpturato, margine laterali 

 tenuissime fiavo ; elytris testaceis parum variegatis, subtiliter punctato-striatis, 

 margine laterali medio parum prominulo ; subttis niger. Long. 3 mm. 



Hah. : Kiirdistau. 



This should be au easily recognised species ; the slender legs and palpi, 

 and the brightly coloured head and thorax, and the general facies give it a 

 resemblance to H. minutus and affinis, from which it is, however, distinguished 

 by the visibility of the elytral flanks, and various other characters. The elytra 

 are only very slightly impressed in front of the middle. The very fine elytral 

 margin as seen from above is exceptional in connection with the visibility of 

 the flanks beneath. The grooves of the thorax are very fine and shallow, and 

 the sculpture of the intervals is much effaced, the yellow colovir of the lateral 

 margins extends distinctly along the front margin. The elongate and slender 

 maxillary palpi are remarkable ; the labial palpi are slender, but only 

 moderately long, the terminal joint about as long as the peniiltimate of the 

 maxillary. 



These characters bring it nearest to H. aritzuensis, which it does 

 not ]-esemble, and differs strongly by the palpi. I have seen only one 

 specimen which I have little doubt is a female. I obtained it with 

 the W. W. Saunders collection, in which it was labelled merely 

 " Kurd," his abbreviation for Kurdistan. 



H. svfuraUs Motsch. from the Kirghese Steppes is not adequately 

 described, but cannot, I think, be H. hilaris ; it is queried by Zaitzev as 

 a synonym of imllidijpennis Muls., as to which refer to H. ftdgidicoUis. 



