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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL lllSTOllY. 



[NINTH SICRIES.] 

 No. 34. OCTOBER 1920. 



XXXVII. — Notes on various African arid Asiatic Species of 

 Hapaloclirus, Er., ivith an Account of their accessory 

 $ -characters \_Coleoptera~\. By G. C. Champion, F.Z.S. 



[Concluded from p. 266.] 



[Plate VIIL] 



46. Hapalochrus filicornis, sp. n. 



^ . Veiy like H.foveiger (No. 44), and differing as follows : 

 antennpe slender, filiform ; elytral puncturing a little denser 

 and finer; anterior tibise more slender, simply excavate in 

 about their outer third within ; intermediate femora not 

 foveate at the base inferiorly ; intermediate tibia) narrower 

 and much less thickened (only a little stouter than in ? ), 

 foveate at the middle beneath^ and also shallowly excavate 

 at the apex inferiorly, without definite lobe at tlie inner 

 apical angle. 



? . Antenna) as in J . 



Length 5-5^, breadth 2-2^ mm. ( (^ ? .) 



Hub. E. Africa, Kashitu and Mwengwa, N. Rhodesia 

 (//. C Dollman : i., ii., xi. 1914 and i. 1915). 



Described from two precisely similar males and tliree 

 females. Very like H. foveiger from the same region, with 

 the (5* -characters less developed tlian iu most of the allied 

 species. The anterior tarsi have the second joint narrowly 



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