120 Humolpide from Mauritius and Réunion. 
ginate, the surface with a few fine punctures, labrum fulvous, man- 
dibles piceous ; antennze extending beyond the middle of the elytra, 
fulvous, the apical five joints black, the second and third joints 
equal, as long as the first, but more slender ; apical joints slightly 
thickened. Thorax twice as broad as long, the lateral margins feebly 
rounded, the anterior angles continued with the episternum below ; 
surface impunctate or with a few minute punctures. Elytra broader 
at the base than the thorax, with a very shallow depression below 
the base, regularly and rather strongly punctate-striate anteriorly, 
the strize widely separated, the punctures nearly obsolete near the 
apex, disc fulvous, the sides with a bluish fuscous or piceous band, 
which is not well defined at its inner margin and leaves the extreme 
lateral margin and the epipleurze of the ground colour. Underside 
and legs fulvous, the latter unarmed, the posterior four tibiz 
emarginate, claws appendiculate. 
Hab, Mauritius, Carepipe. 
On account of the equal length of the second and third 
joints of the antennz and the appendiculate claws, I have 
placed this species in Harold’s genus Nossiwcus, although 
in the type the femora are described as toothed. There 
are moreover only two or three other genera with appendi- 
culate claws placed at present in the group of Typophorine, 
to which the present genus belongs, and none of these 
genera agrees in structural details with the species before 
me. It may perhaps require a new genus for its reception, 
if other forms of similar structure turn up. I may add 
that the prosternum in this species is broad and flat, and 
that Harold says nothing about the shape of this part in 
the description of his genus. 
APRIL 20, 1898. 
