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THE ANNALS 







MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 34. OCTOBER 1920. 



XXXVII. — Notes on various African and Asiatic Species of 

 Hapalochrus, Er., with an Account of their accessory 

 S -characters [Coleoptera]. By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. 



[Concluded from p. 266.] 



[Plate VIII.] 



46. Hapalochrus filicornis, sp. n. 



£ . Very like H.foveiger (No. 44), and differing as follows : 

 antennae slender, filiform ; elytral puncturing a little denser 

 and finer ; anterior tibiae more slender, simply excavate in 

 about their outer third within ; intermediate femora not 

 foveate at the base inferiorly ; intermediate tibiae narrower 

 and much less thickened (only a little stouter than in $ ), 

 foveate at the middle beneath, and also shallowly excavate 

 at the apex inferiorly, without definite lobe at the inner 

 apical angle. 



$ . Antennae as in $ . 



Length 5-5^, breadth 2-2£ mm. (<??.) 



Hab. E. Africa, Kashitu and Mwengwa, N. Rhodesia 

 (H. C. Dollman : i., ii., xi. 1914 and i. 1915). 



Described from two precisely similar males and three 

 females. Very like H. foveiger from the same region, with 

 the $ -characters less developed than in most of the allied 

 species. The anterior tarsi have the second joint narrowly 



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