aud Asiatic Species rt/ Hapalochrus. 323 



series is examined. Himalayan examples belong to tlie 

 form depicius, tlie types of which were said to be from 

 Calcutta. 



71. HapalocJirus Icetus. 



Malachms la-fus, Fabr. Svst. Eleutli. i. p. 805 (1801). 



Apalochnis Icetus, Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. xxxix. p. 317 (c5 2) (1895). 



^. Intermediate trochanters (PI. VIII. fig. 27) produced 

 into a stout, downwardly-directed lobe, which is abruptly 

 truncate at the tip ; tlie other characters as in H. fasciatus. 



Hah. Burma, Toungoo, Sliuogyin, Tharrawaddy {coll. 

 Andrewes) ; ? Sumatra (li/pe of Fabncus). 



Fourteen examples seen, inckuling five males, nearly all 

 in very bad condition. Extremely like the darker form of 

 H. fasciatus from Kanara and Belgauin, and only separable 

 therefrom by the wholly rufescent prothorax and the 

 peculiar form of the ($ intermediate trochanters. Mr. 

 Andrewes has been kind enough to lend me the specimens of 

 tliese two species which were examined and reported upon 

 by Gorhara in 1895. 



72. Hapalochrus malabarensis. 



Hitpalochnis malabarensis, Pic, Le Naturaliste, xxv. p. 81 (1903). 

 (5" . Apalochrus [Spiiinpalochrus) malabarensis, Pic, Melanges exot.- 

 entoni. xxx. p. 12 (Jime 1919). 



$. Antennse long, stout, serrate, tapering towards the 

 tip, joint 2 much longer than 3 ; anterior trochanters armed 

 with a long, slender tooth ; anterior tibiai slender, curved, 

 hollowed towards the apex within, the a|)ical portion slightly 

 thickened ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 stout, short, sub- 

 equal in length, 2 extending over base of 3; intermediate 

 tibise hollowed from about the middle to near the apex 

 within. 



Length 4|, breadth 2 mm. 



Hah. India, Mahe, Malabar [type of Pic), Ceylon {Col. 

 Yerbury). 



A male from Ceylon, presented to the British Museum in 

 1892, agrees with Pic's original description, except in its 

 smaller size and the entirely black posterior legs. This 

 insect has the head black, the prothorax rnfeseent, and the 

 elytra bluish-l)lack, with a common, narrow, median fascia 

 and a spot at the tip testaceous. H. malabarensis and 

 H. rufofascialns, Pic, the latter from Tonkin (1919), are 

 referred to a new subgenus, Spinapalochrus, by him, the 

 characters [ (^ ] given for it being " Coxis anticis dentatis, 

 pedibus simplicibus," the trochanters having evidently been 



