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leaving a distinct median gap between it and the thorax, and the humeral 

 angles are porrect. 



This genus is named in honour of Mr. T. Hall in recognition of his 

 valuable scientific discoveries. 



3900. Halliella squamipes sp. nov. 



Opaque, fuscous, antennal club rufescent ; sparingly clothed with 

 depressed, flavescent squamae, these are slender on the hind-body but 

 coarse on the thorax, there are also numerous suberect, coarse ones which 

 form several crests. 



Kostrum subcarinate behind, with a basal crest and a pair of inter- 

 antennal ones, its frontal portion bears very small scales. Thorax somewhat 

 narrowed anteriorly, medially impressed at the base, its punctation neither 

 close nor coarse, the intervals, except near the base and apex, are more or 

 less finely tuberculate ; there is a prominent crest at each side of the apex, 

 and the scales are concentrated along the sides so as to form a streak on 

 each right to the base, sometimes there is a small median crest on the disc. 

 Elytra quite double the length of thorax, subvertical behind, the scutellar 

 region a little depressed ; they are indistinctly pmictate, but have, on each, 

 2 or 3 irregular series of minute tubercles, the posterior declivity is broadly 

 substriate ; erect scales form oblique humeral crests, there are a pair of 

 median crests near the suture, another larger pair, on each elytron, nearer 

 the side and about equidistant from the base and each other, and a similar 

 pair on top of the side ; on the summit of the declivity there is a trans- 

 verse series of 5 unequal crests, the sutural ones the smallest, just below 

 these, at each side, there is a more elongate one. 



Scape with depressed elongate squamae, the funiculus setose, club finely 

 pubescent. Legs with irregularly concentrated scales, thus obscuring their 

 true shape. 



Underside dull smoky black, irregularly squamose ; abdomen rather 

 finely and irregularly punctate ; metasternum rugose, sides of presternum 

 distantly and minutely tuberculate. 



Fern.- — Rostrum almost nude and finely punctate in front of the an- 

 tennae, which are implanted just behind the middle, without crests there ; 

 elytra substriate-punctate near the suture. 



Length (rostrum inclusive), 7^ mm. ; breadth, 3 mm. 



Hollyford. A dozen specimens, some damaged, found amongst decaying 

 leaves, &c., by Mr. T. Hall on the 18th February, 1914. 



3901. Halliella antennalis sp. nov. 



Opaque, dark fuscous ; funiculus slightly, the club distinctly rufescent. 



Elytra with a broad scutellar depression which is thinly squamose at 

 each side, they are substriate-punctate ; the 3 inner series of punctures, 

 on each elytron, are very coarse and deep, the exterior are irregular but 

 equally coarse, the posterior declivity much more finely biseriate ; on the 

 suture and 3rd interstice there are about 10 minute tubercles, there are 

 some others near the side, and two rows along the declivity ; the slender 

 squamae are depressed and unevenly distributed, the coarser erect ones 

 form an elongate humeral crest, the 4th is binodose and scaly, the 3rd, on 

 top of the declivity, is moderately nodiform and squamose, a little lower 

 down, on the side itself, there is a larger scaly prominence, the side of the 

 disc is also uneven. 



