r)80 ^fr. G. C. Champion on 



centre, tlic l)a^al niarji;ln of tlio cavity ciliatc: cyos not pro. 

 minent ; autcnnre moilcratcly long, rather stout, joints 7-10 

 transversj. Prothorax wider than tiie head, convex, narrowly 

 margined, as long as broad; rapidly, obliquely narrov\el 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, the anterior portion broadly pro- 

 duced, snbtnincate in front, and depressed down the middle, 

 tlms appearing sub-bilo'oed. Elytra moderately elongate. 

 Anterior tarsal joint 2 with the comb at the tip black. 



$ . Head less developed behind the eyes, simple, rather 

 convex ; antennas very short, more slender ; prothorax 

 broader than long, rounded at the sides, narrowed posteriorly: 

 elytra more widened behind. 

 'Length Sji-lh mm. ((??.) 



Hab. S. Africa, Prieska {<^ ^ : types). Cape Town 

 {Dr.Purcell). 



Five ^ S and one $ of this species have been sent me for 

 determination by Dr. Peringuey, all from the Cape Town 

 Museum. 



NoTOMALACHius, geu. nov. 



Antennse inserted beneath the outer angles of the epistoma 

 at some distance before the eyes, 11-jointed, simply serrate 

 in the two sexes, joint 2 very short; head rather short, 

 simple in ^ , the epistoma broadly truncate anteriorly and 

 confused with the front ; labrum short : terminal joint of 

 maxillary palpi oblongo-conic, truncate at tip ; prothorax 

 transverse, nearly as wide as the elytra, the latter long, 

 subparallel, incompletely covering the abdomen, simple ; 

 anterior tarsi 5-jointed, simple in ^ ; tarsal claws with 

 membranous lobe; anterior tibiae more or less bowed inwards 

 and distinctly widened at tip, more distinctly so in cJ ; body 

 villose. 



Tvpe, Hapalochrns doUmani, Chamj). 



The type of the genus, in the absence of the ^ , was pro- 

 visionally included by me under Hopalochrus in 1920"'. 

 ^Fales of the same species have since been f(;nnd in the 

 collections under examination. The distinctly separated 

 short second antennal joint, which is reduced to a connect- 

 ing node at the apex of the first in Hapalocln'us, s. str., and 

 the different (J -characters, distinguish H. dollmani from the 

 last-named genus ; and the broadly truncate epistoma, at 



* II. da.^'jtiformii, Champ. (/. c. p. lSS) = Cahsofis (?) harhri, Pic 

 (I/Echanpre, xx. p. 6t), 1004). This species has ]0-j<>inted anteniifp, and 

 of course does not belong to tlie I)asytiil-<reims Cn/osotis, Iledt., but tlie 

 name harkeri niu.st be usi;d for it. C. sefuloso, Ii>"dt., frjin tli«,> Cap<', 

 the type of which is before me, is very like a Dusytiscits. 



