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excedenti) producto, oculis haud (sed fere) divisis ; antennis 
prothoracis basin attingentibus, articulis 9-10 vix trans- 
versis ; prothorace quam longiori minus quam duplo latiori, 
fortius sat crebre nec rugulose punctulato, antice minus pro- 
funde emarginato, postice bisinuato, lateribus modice arcu- 
atis, angulis anticis minus acutis posticis subrectis sat 
explanatis, latitudine majori mox ante basin posita ; scutello 
ut prothorax punctulato ; elytris quam prothorax sat latior- 
ibus, vix striatis, striis puncturis sat fortibus impressis, inter- 
stitiis sat planis subtiliter nec crebre punctulatis ; tibiis 
anticis sat gracilibus apicem versus modice dilatatis ; tarsis 
subtus pilis sat elongatis sericeis vestitis. Long., 4 1. ; lat., 
131. 
This species belongs to the same section of Hopatrum as 
dispersum, Champion, and vagabundum, Champion, and of which 
HI. longicorne, Blackb., is also a member ; it is distinguished by 
the long silky hairs that clothe the tarsi, the somewhat exserted 
head with its clypeus not separated by a furrow, the compara- 
tively narrow orbits of the eyes, the feebly emarginate front of 
the prothorax, the feebly (or not at all) rugulose character of the 
sculpture, and the almost (or quite) divided eyes. Mr. Champion 
describes the eyes of his species as “ divided,” but in the example 
of H. dispersum, which he has been good enough to send me, the 
two portions of the eye appear to me to be very narrowly in con- 
tact with each other at their hinder extremity as they are in the 
present species. 
The present insect differs from H. dispersum by the very feeble 
but comparatively strongly punctured striz of its elytra, from 
HF. vagabundum by its non-granulose elytral interstices, and from 
H. longicorne (to which it is rather close) by the less crowded 
puncturation of the head and prothorax and by the considerably 
stronger punctures in the quasi-strie of the elytra. 
N.S. Wales; Darling River District. 
HT. longicorne, Blackb. In my description of this species 
(Trans. Roy. Soc. 8.A., XVI, p. 40) I have introduced an accid- 
ental error, having written “ capite cum prothorace elytrisque 
sat fortiter sat crebre nec rugulose punctulato.” The word 
‘“‘elytrisque” should be excised. 
HH, Darwini, sp. nov. Ovale, sat breve; subnitidum ; nigrum, 
setulis aureo-fulvis brevibus suberectis minus crebre vestit- 
um, antennis tarsisque rufescentibus; capite minus lato 
fortiter crebre punctulato, clypeo cum capite confuso antice 
profunde emarginato, ad latera minus fortiter (oculos parum 
excedenti) producto, oculis haud (sed fere) divisis ; antennis 
prothoracis basin vix attingentibus, articulis 8-10 vix con 
