104 Mr. D. Sharp on some 



and at a little distance from it tliey are slightly bent, and 

 get gradually thicker, while at apex there is again a slight 

 additional incrassation, which is very well marked on the 

 hinder pair, though not on the middle ones ; this apical 

 portion is intensely black in colour, so as to form a remark- 

 able contrast to the dull-red colour of the basal portion ; 

 the femora are somewhat scabrous, and bear rather scanty 

 pale hairs or setse, the black apical portion bearing a 

 denser black pubescence ; the middle tibio3 and tarsi are 

 red, with but slight variegation in their colour or in that 

 of the scanty hairs they bear. The hind tibijB are elon- 

 gate (just about the length of the wing cases), they arc 

 laterally compressed, and the basal portion is a little 

 slenderer than the rest ; they are clothed with rough, 

 erect, dense hairs, which are but little developed on the 

 basal portion, and are there ^yellowish, while on the lower 

 part they become black, and are more largely developed ; 

 the hind tarsi also are hirsute, but the hairs are of a pale 

 ochreous colour, and so form a striking contrast to the 

 tibia?. 



This species was discovered by Mr. Blackburn on one 

 of the higher mountains of the Honolulu range. Foin* 

 visits to the spot of its discovery have been rewarded by 

 the capture of three individuals ; one of these is a female, 

 and Mr. Blackburn informs me that it has the antenna? 

 a good deal shorter than the male, and a little thicker 

 near the apex, the elevation of the thorax flat, instead of 

 saddle-shaped, and the hind tibia? rather more straight. 

 Whether its hind body is reduced in size in a manner 

 comparable to that of the male I do not know. 



Clytarlus modestus, n. sp. Minor; gracilis, rufo-tes- 

 taceus, antennis, elytris, pedibusque pallidioribus, fere 

 nndus, parum nitidus ; prothorace dense obsolete punctato, 

 opaco, medio longitudinaliter parum elevato, carinulis 

 valde abbreviatis, transversis, tribus, anteriore magis ele- 

 vato ; elytris versus apicem leviter attenuatis, fortiter, 

 dense punctatis ; abdomine nigricante, apice rufescente ; 

 corpore subtus, sparsim albido-setoso ; pedibus elongatis, 

 gracilibus, femoribus quatuor posterioribus, dimidio api- 

 cal! abrupte incrassato. Long. 5 mm. ', lat. 1 mm. 



The thorax is but little longer than broad, it is sub- 

 cyliudric, and has but little basal constriction ; in the 



