472 MR. C. O. WATERHOUSE ON THE [-^Pl"' 5, 



long ; the anterior have the second, third, and fourth joints mode- 

 rately dilated ; the intermediate pair are only slightly so. 



3. ApATE NITIDIPENNIS, n. Sp. 



Staturafere A. terehrantis, at duplo minor, nigra, elytris piceis, 



nitidis, punctis crebre aspera. 

 Long. 7-^ lin. 



Forehead clothed with fulvous pile to rather above the middle of 

 the eyes ; without tubercles ; the vertex finely and closely granular, 

 with a fine smooth median line, the sides of the neck closely longi- 

 tudiually rugulose. The labrum is very closely and extremely 

 finely punctured. Clypeus moderately emarginate. Antennae jntchy, 

 the club clear fulvous. Thorax scarcely narrower than the elytra, a 

 trifle broader than long ; the basal half closely covered with small 

 depressed granules ; the front is covered with small tubercles with 

 rather larger ones intermixed, these latter becoming more prominent 

 and acute towards the anterior angles ; one at the anterior angles 

 becomes a strong deflexed, recurved tooth, close to the margin. The 

 elytra are 2| times as long as the thorax, a very little wider near 

 the apex than at the base ; the surface even and shining ; the punc- 

 tures are clear and distinct (distant from each other about twice the 

 diameter of the larger punctures), they are fine at the base, and gra- 

 dually become stronger and a little larger towards the apes, but they 

 are very fine at the sides ; in the apical declivity the punctures are 

 very strong; on the back there are two pairs of lines of punctures 

 on each elytron, indicating the dorsal costte frequently seen in this 

 genus ; the spaces between them are not at all raised, except at the 

 apical declivity, where they are very slightly inflated, but scarcely 

 projecting ; the incrassated apical margin is closely and finely punc- 

 tured. The underside is obscure pitchy, clothed with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. The legs are also pitcliy ; the whole of the inner side 

 of anterior tibiae is clothed with very pale fulvous pile ; on the outer 

 edge are three or four very small teeth. Tbe intermediate tibiae have 

 on their outer edge four or five very small sharp teeth ; the posterior 

 tibiae are smooth. The abdomen is opaque, very closely and ex- 

 tremely finely punctured. 



A single example, apparently a female. 



In the Museum collection there is a specimen from East Africa 

 which diff'ers from the above in having the elytra a little shorter, 

 the punctuation on them rather stronger, with two fine dorsal 

 costae, and with an indication of a third more lateral one ; the tibiee 

 have more teeth on their outer edge, and the posterior pair have 

 also a few fine teeth ; the abdomen is less closely punctured ; the 

 labrum is less closely punctui'ed ; the clypeus deeply emarginate, 

 &c. I have no name for this species, and only mention it that it may 

 not be confounded with that from Socotra. 



Both these species appear to be nearly allied to A. cornifrons, 

 Bandi de Selve (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1874, xxviii. p. 834) ; but that 

 species is described as being somewhat pubescent, and the forehead 

 of the female has a longitudinal channel and a fovea on the vertex. 



