On the Genus Hapalochrus, Er. 537 



D. pennatus dryas, subsp. n. 



General colour slightly darker and greyer ; upper surface a 

 darker wood-brown, and the under surface a dirty greyish 

 white, the belly greyer than the chest. Inner surface of fore 

 limbs quite grey, not whitish as in pennatus. Head-lines 

 about as in pennatus, though hardly so brightly contrasted. 

 Secator smaller, oval in section, single-rooted. 



Hub. of type. Mt. Gayata, Liichardson Range, British New 

 Guinea. 3000'. The specimen from the Ethel River, Hall 

 Sound, recorded by Ramsay (who misprints the name as 

 pinuatus), was probably this form. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 99. 4. 4. 5. Collected by 

 A. S. A nthony. 



Hind foot of type 19 mm. Skull, greatest length 30, three 

 upper molaiiform teeth 4*1. 



D. pennatus amcenus i subsp. n. 



Size slightly larger. Colour stronger and darker, with all 

 the contrasts at a maximum. Upper suiface near " verona- 

 brown " ; under surface more or less clay-colour, the throat 

 yellowish, the chest creamy, but the belly more brownish, 

 not sharply defined from the line of the sides. Dark head- 

 markings strongly contrasted black, broadened posteriorly, so 

 as almost to meet in the middle line, and contracting to a 

 point the light median area between them, the edges of which 

 are sharply and abruptly defined. Hands and feet dull 

 yellow. 



Secator very small, circular, single-rooted. 



Hah. Ex-German New Guinea. Type from the Rawlinson 

 Mountains ; another specimen from Sattelburg. 



Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 11. 10. 14. 1. Collected by 

 Prof. F. Forster. 



Hind foot of type 21 mm. Skull, greatest length 31'5, 

 three molaiiform teeth 4*5. 



LXTII. — Supplementary Note on the Genus Hapalochru-s, Er. 

 [CoUoptera]. By G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



In the present volume of the ' Annals & Magazine of Natural 

 History,' pp. 177-201, 249-266, 305-327, pi. viii., an account 

 is given of all the African and Asiatic species of the genus 

 Ilapalochrus known to me. In this article no mention is 

 made of Kraatz's papers on the same subject (Deutsche ent. 

 Zeitschr. 1895, pp. 59-64, 271, 272), which were overlooked 

 by me, and they appear also to have escaped the notice of 



