320 Mr. W. F. H. Blandford on new 



Dactylipalpus. 



Dactylipalpus, Chapuis, Syn. Scol. p. 12 (M6m. Soc. Liege, 1873, 



p. 220). 

 Dactylopselaphus (emend.), Gemminger and Von Harold, Cat. Col. 



p. 2678. 



Head shortly rostrate ; eyes oblong, not approximated 

 above or below ; antennae very short, the scape scarcely longer 

 than the basal joint of the 7-articulate funiculus, the club 

 subcompressed, subpyriform, not sharply pointed at the tip, 

 closely pubescent and solid, the sutures being untraceable 

 even in a balsam-mounted specimen. Gular region deeply 

 inflexed, the buccal orifice hidden by the base of the man- 

 dibles j mentum small, sublinear and rod-like, widened at 

 the tip to receive the long two-jointed labial palpi, of which 

 the apical joint is fusiform, pointed, and twice as long as the 

 basal joint ; ligula indistinguishable. Maxillge weak, the 

 inner border sinuate, very shortly lobed at the tip, and set 

 with hairs not stouter than those on the outer border and 

 face ; maxillary palpi two-jointed, the basal joint nodular, 

 the second elongate, slightly curved, and tumescent before 

 the obtusely pointed apex. Prothorax transversely rectan- 

 gular, scarcely declivous in front, without propleural fovea?, 

 but in the female with a deep incised transverse striga before 

 the middle of the dorsum. Tibiae widened from the base to 

 the truncate apex, their upper border straight, rather weakly 

 serrate, their outer face scabrous. Tarsi short, stout, the first 

 three joints subequal, the third bilobed. Underskeleton and 

 elytra as in Phloeoborus, but with the presternum more de- 

 pressed before the coxae, and the antecoxal ridges very strong ; 

 abdomen relatively shorter. 



The genus differs from Phlceoborus essentially in the solid 

 antennal club and two-jointed palpi ; the appearance and 

 sculpture are quite those of a Phloeoborus. As yet it contains 

 a single Oriental species. The etymological alteration of the 

 generic name by Gemminger and Von Harold is too great to 

 be substituted justifiably for Chapuis's hybrid compound. 



Dactylipalpus transversus. 



5 . Dactylipalpus transversus, Chap. Syn. Scol. p. 12 (M6m. Soc. 



Liege, 1873, p. 220). 

 $ . Dactylipalpus quadratocollis, Chap. /. c. 



Bab. Celebes, Gilolo, Malacca, Nicobar Islands. 



The two species here conjoined differ in nothing but size 

 and sexual characters, and are clearly sexes ; I possess both 

 from Teraate. In the Nicobar Islands there is a form which 



