108 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
by the rounded, sharply margined sides of the thorax, 
the comparatively long antennae, the moderately large 
eyes, the posteriorly narrowed elytra, and the rather 
narrow tibiae. Amongst the forms described by Reitter, 
it can only be compared with H. semifuscus, from Brazil, 
which is said to have rather short, stout antennae. H. 
nitidulus is broader and less elongate than H. suturalis, 
and it has the intermediate joints of the antennae more 
slender, much as in H. cribricollis, Gorh. (? = gracilicornis, 
Reitt.). 
*Hapalips suturalis, n. sp. (Plate III, fig. 12, 9.) 
Very elongate, narrow, narrowing posteriorly, depressed, shining, 
finely alutaceous, the body varying in colour from black, with 
the front of the head, the basal joint of the antennae, and a 
broad stripe down the disc of each elytron ferruginous, to entirely 
testaceous, the head, thorax, and scutellum usually fusco-ferruginous 
and the elytra testaceous with the suture piceous, the legs always 
testaceous; clothed with rather long, fine, adpressed hairs. Head 
triangular, closely punctate, obsoletely bifoveate, the oblique 
impressed line on each side of the epistoma just traceable, the eyes 
moderately large, somewhat depressed; antennae not reaching the 
base of the thorax, joints 5-8 transverse. Prothorax subquadrate, 
as long as or longer than broad in J, shorter in 9, obsoletely margined 
at the base, truncate in front, the anterior angles obtuse and not 
in a line with the apical margin; closely punctate, except along a 
narrow median space. Scutellum almost smooth. Elytra elongate, 
narrowing towards the apex; regularly punctate-striate, the inter- 
stices almost impunctate. Legs short. 
Length 44-5} mm. (¢ 9.) 
Hab. GuaTEMALA, Duefias and Capetillo (Champion). 
A long series. A narrow, elongate, posteriorly attenuate 
form, with the suture of the elytra usually infuscate (as 
in many small Elaterids), the thorax subquadrate, longer 
in the male than in the female. Much smaller than 
H. dimidiatus, pubescent above, the head shorter, the 
thorax more closely punctured, the eyes more prominent. 
Compared with H. perlongus, the eyes are more depressed ; 
the antennae are not so stout; the thorax is more coarsely 
punctate, and less distinctly margined at the base; and 
the sutural interstice and apex of the elytra are smoother. 
The eyes are larger and more depressed than in H. filum. 
