and Asiatic Species 0/ Hapalochrus. 321 



68. Hapalochrus luzonensis. 



? Hapalochrus luzonensis, Pic, Melanges exot.-entoru. x. p. 15 ( o ) 

 (Oct. 1914). 



$ . Elongate, subparallel, robust, shining, thickly clothed 

 with rather coarse whitish pubescence, with long erect hairs 

 intermixed; bluish-green, the oral organs, hasal joints of 

 antenna?, legs, and abdomen testaceous, the rest of the 

 antenna? black. Head and prothorax closely punctulate; 

 the latter convex, wider than the head, transversely sub- 

 quadrate as seen from above, rounded at the sides as seen 

 laterally, uneven, broadly hollowed down the middle pos- 

 teriorly, and with an oblong prominence in the centre of 

 the depression ; antenna? long, strongly flabellate from the 

 third joint. Elytra long, at the base not broader than the 

 prothorax, slightly widened posteriorly, rounded at the apex ; 

 densely, finely, rugulosely punctate. Anterior tibia? thick- 

 ened, strongly, simply sinuate within, hollowed beneath ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, subequal in length, 

 2 extending over base of 3 and nigro-pectinate at the tip; 

 intermediate tibiievery stout, broadly dilated, convex, slightly 

 sinuate externally, almost straight on their inner edge, deeply 

 sulcate beneath, without trace of lobe at the inner apical angle. 

 $ . Antenna? much shorter, serrate from joint 2 onward ; 

 prothorax much smoother on the disc; femora partly 

 infuscate. 



Length 4^-5, breadth 2 mm. (^ ? .) 



Hob. Philippines (Mas. Brit. : ? ), Luzon {type of Pic: 

 cJ), Mindoro {E. Everett : $). 



The above description is taken from a pair in the British 

 Museum. The <$ agrees fairly well with Pic's diagnosis of 

 77. luzonensis, except that he makes no particular allusion 

 to the greatly thickened intermediate tibia;, these (and the 

 posterior pair also !) being given as "epaissies." The present 

 insect is narrower and less convex than the African 

 H. sjOstedti and H. simoni, and the pale legs, &c, separate 

 it from H. mirabilis, Pic. 



■ 69. Hapalochrus mirabilis. 



cJ. Hapalochrous mirabilis, Pic, L'Echange, xxiii. p. 134 (1907). 



<$ . Antenna? long, strongly flabellate from joint 4 onward ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 projecting over 

 the base of 3 ; anterior tibia? sinuate within ; intermediate 

 tibia? simple. 



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