112 Mr. G. C. Champion’s Notes on 
disc of the thorax behind. This insect has the general 
facies of a Tribolium. | 
[PsEUDHAPALIPS, n. gen. 
Head short and broad, the epistoma confused with the front, 
differently shaped in the two sexes; eyes convex, coarsely granu- 
lated; terminal joint of the maxillary palpi narrow, cultriform, that 
of the labial palpi stout and subsecuriform; mandibles acute, with 
a small tooth towards the tip; antennae with an abrupt 3-jointed 
club; thorax transversely quadrate, sharply margined, with two 
basal foveae connected by a deep transverse sulcus; scutellum 
strongly transverse; elytra elongate, sharply margined laterally ; 
prosternum with deep sutures, the intercoxal process horizontal ; 
anterior coxal cavities closed behind; tarsi 5-jointed, 1-3 short and 
broad, spongy-pubescent beneath, 2 and 3 lobate, 4 minute, hidden 
in the excavate lobe of 3; tibiae very obliquely truncate at apex; 
body elongate, subglabrous. 
Type, P. lamellifer. 
The single species referred to this genus is closely related 
to Hapalvps, from which it differs in having deep basal 
foveae on the thorax connected by an equally deep trans- 
verse sulcus, in the extraordinary form of the head in the 
two sexes (suggestive of certain Tenebrionids), and in the 
very prominent convex eyes. The penultimate tarsal joint 
is so small that it can scarcely be seen unless the tarsus is 
viewed laterally. The thorax is shaped as in Platoberus. 
The head is considerably broader in the female than in 
the male. 
Pseudhapalips lamellifer, n. sp. (Plate IIT, figs. 15, 3; 
15a, head from in front, ¢.) 
Elongate, somewhat depressed, ferruginous, shining, the eyes 
black; almost glabrous above (the minute hairs arising from the 
punctures soon abraded). Head (Q) uneven, bifoveate, very sparsely 
punctate, with a broad, arcuate, tumid margin in front which 
extends round to the greatly swollen antennary orbits, (3) with a 
prominent, mesially depressed, vertical ridge between the points 
of insertion of the antennae (the ridge concave behind and somewhat 
convex in front), and the transversely depressed inter-ocular space 
smooth; antennae moderately long, joints 3-8 moniliform, the two 
basal joints of the club (9 and 10) strongly transverse. Thorax about 
one-half broader than long, the disc transversely convex, the lateral 
margins explanate, crenulate, slightly sinuate towards the base, 
