and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 323 



series is examined. Himalayan examples belong to the 

 form depictus, the types of which were said to be from 

 Calcutta. 



71. Hapalochrus Icetus. 



Malachius Icetus, Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. i. p. 305 (1801). 



Apalochrus Icetus, Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. xxxix. p. 317 (J $) (1895). 



d . Intermediate trochanters (PI. VIII. fig. 27) produced 

 into a stout, downwardly-directed lobe, which is abruptly 

 truncate at the tip ; the other characters as in H. fasciatus. 



Hab. Burma, Toungoo, Shuegyin, Tharrawaddy (coll. 

 Andrewes); ? Sumatra (type of Fabricus). 



Fourteen examples seen, including five males, nearly all 

 in very bad condition. Extremely like the darker form of 

 H. fasciatus from Kanara and Belgaum, and only separable 

 therefrom by the wholly rufescent prothorax and the 

 peculiar form of the ^ intermediate trochanters. Mr. 

 Andrewes has been kind enough to lend me the specimens of 

 these two species which were examined and reported upon 

 by Gorh am in 1895. 



72. Hapalochrus malabarensis. 



Hapalochrus malabarensis, Pic, Le Naturaliste, xxv. p. 81 (1903). 



o*. Apalochrus (Spina palochrus) malabarensis, Pic, Melauges exot.- 

 entom. xxx. p. 12 (June 1919). 



$ . Antennae long, stout, serrate, tapering towards the 

 tip, joint 2 much longer than 3 ; anterior trochanters armed 

 with a long, slender tooth ; anterior tibiae slender, curved, 

 hollowed towards the apex within, the apical portion slightly 

 thickened ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 stout, short, sub- 

 equal in length, 2 extending over base of 3; intermediate 

 tibiae hollowed from about the middle to near the apex 

 within. 



Length 4£, breadth 2 mm. 



Hob. India, Mahe, Malabar {type of Pic), Ceylon (Col. 

 Yerbury ) . 



A male from Ceylon, presented to the British Museum in 

 1892, agrees with Pic's original description, except in its 

 smdler size and the entirely black posterior legs. This 

 insect has the head black, the prothorax rufescent, and the 

 elytra bluish-black, with a common, narrow, median fascia 

 and a spot at the tip testaceous. H. malabarensis and 

 H. rufofasciatus, Pic, the latter from Tonkin (1919), are 

 referred to a new subgenus, Spinapalochrus, by him, the 

 characters [ £ ] given tor it being " Coxts an icis dentatis, 

 pedibus simplicibus," the trochanters having evidently been 



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