284 Mr. George Charles Champion on the Serricorn 
CreEpipius, Cand. 
Crepidius flavipes, sp. 0. 
d Moderately elongate, rather convex, narrow, shining ; black, 
the legs flavo-testaceous, with the tarsi slightly infuscate ; above 
and beneath sparsely clothed with rather long, fine, decumbent 
hairs, which are fuscous on the elytra and fulvo-cinereous on the 
other parts of the body. Head coarsely, closely punctate, deeply 
triangularly excavate in front, the frontal plate moderately pro- 
minent and rounded anteriorly ; antennz about reaching the basal 
fourth of the elytra, stout, joints 3—10 gradually becoming flabel- 
late, 6—10 each with a long, stout, flattened ramus. Prothorax a 
little broader thaa long, convex in front, very gradually narrowing 
from the base forwards, the sides rounded anteriorly ; the hind 
angles greatly produced, slightly divergent, and acutely carinate ; 
the surface thickly, coarsely punctate—the punctuation becoming 
sparser and finer on the basal portion of the disc, and very coarse, 
crowded, and umbilicate towards the sides anteriorly,—and with a 
median channel behind. Elytra about three and one-third times 
longer than the prothorax, gradually narrowing from a little below 
the base ; with rows of coarse punctures placed in shallow strie, 
these, however, being deeply impressed on the basal declivity, the 
interstices very sparsely punctured. Hind coxal plates abruptly, 
triangularly dilated inwards. 
Length 103, breadth 3 millim. 
Hab. St. Vincent. 
One example. This very distinct species may be readily 
known by the deep black colour of the body, the black 
antenn, and the yellow legs. It is closely allied to 
C. rhipiphorus, Cand. (of which C. brunneus, Fleut. and 
Sallé, is probably the female), from Guadeloupe; but 
may be distinguished from it (apart from the dissimilar 
coloration of the legs and antennz) by the shorter an- 
tennal rami of the male, and the courser, deeper, and 
more crowded umbilicate punctures at the sides of the 
thorax. 
Of the two males representing C. rhipiphorus in the 
Janson collection one has the antennz and legs ferru- 
gineo-testaceous (as described by Candéze), and the other 
has the legs (the tarsi excepted) piceous and the antennz 
black. 
