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10. Hapalochrus dasytiformis, sp. n. 



(^ . jNIoderately elongate, narrow, parallel-sided, shining, 

 clothed with whitish pubescence intermixed with long, soft, 

 erect, pallid hairs; nigro seneous or black, the basal joints 

 of the antennae beneath, the mandibles (except at the tip), 

 tibiae, and tarsi (their apices excepted) testaceous. Head 

 broad, sparsely punctured; antennse moderately long, strongly 

 ])ectinate. Prothorax strongly transverse, convex, about 

 as broad as the base of the elytra, rounded at the sifles, 

 very sparsely punctate, foveate or sulcate in the middle 

 posteriorly. Elytra closely, finely punctate, depressed along 

 the suture anteriorly, the interspaces alutaceous and uneven. 

 Anterior femora (PI. VIII. fig. 2) strongly incrassate, toothed 

 towards the base ; anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 2) thickened 

 and rather broad, abruptly, obliquely compressed and 

 emarginate before the tip ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, 2 smaller and much shorter than 1, extending 

 over tiie base of 3, nigro-pectinate at tip ; intermediate 

 tibiae simple, as in ? . 



? . Antennaj shorter and more slender, serrate, black. 

 Length 31-4, breadth 1^-lf mm. ( cT ? .) 

 Hub. S.E. Africa, Howick, Natal (J. P. Creyoe). 

 Five males and one female, received by the British 

 Museum in 1903. A small, narrow, hairy, nigro-aeneous 

 or black form, with testaceous tibiae and tarsi, and a broad, 

 transverse prothorax, the J" with flabellate antennae, incras- 

 sate, toothed anterior femora (as in H. sjostedti, Bourg.), 

 thickened and obliquely compressed anterior tibiae, &c. 

 The ? is separable from the same sex of the Rhodesian 

 H. dollmani (No. 58) by its smaller size, less elongate shape, 

 shorter prothorax, and more distinctly, less densely punctate 

 elytra. 



11. Hapalochrus atratus, sp. n. 

 (T . Moderately elongate, narrow, shining, sparsely pubes- 

 cent and also thickly clothed with long, soft, erect, fuscous 

 hairs ; black, the elytra with a faint cyaneous lustre, the 

 basal joints of the antennae and the anterior tibiae slightly 

 testaceo-maculate. Head short, bi-im pressed anteriorly, 

 sparsely punctulate ; antennae moderately long, strongly 

 pectinate from the fourth joint onward. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, sulcate down the middle, sparsely punctate. Elytra 

 subparallel, depressed along the suture below the base, 

 closely, finely punctate. Anterior femora (PI. VIII. fig. 5) 

 armed with a long sharp tooth near the base ; anterior 



