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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN 

 HALTICIDzE, OF THE GROUP (EDIPODES. 



BT MA.BTIN JACOBT, F.E.S. 



{Concluded from p. 48). 



Hapalotrius ruLViooLLis, n. sp. 



Head black, the vertex rugose ; clypeus fulvous ; antennae, the apex of the 

 tibiae and the tarsi and abdomen, black ; thorax fulvous, clothed with golden pu- 

 bescence ; elytra dark fuscous, closely punctate-striate, the interstices costate ; femora 

 fulvous, breast piceous. Length, 2J lines. 



Head rugosely and deeply punctured at the vertex, black, the clypeus reddish- 

 fulvous ; palpi rather strongly incrassate ; antennae slender, black (the terminal 

 three joints wanting), the third and following joints very elongate ; thorax trans- 

 verse, narrowed at the base, the sides rounded before the middle, the surface very 

 finely and closely punctured, clothed with long golden pubescence ; scutellum 

 fuscous ; elytra depressed, nearly black, impressed with deep transversely shaped 

 punctures, the interstices strongly longitudinally costate ; the entire surface opaque, 

 finely pubescent, the extreme sides clothed with more whitish hairs ; below piceous ; 

 the abdomen black ; the femora fulvous ; tibia? with two spurs ; claws appendiculate. 



Sah. : Amazons. 



Ehikotmetus nigbolimbatus, n. sp. 



Broadly ovate, sub-depressed ; glabrous ; head and thorax dark fulvous ; an- 

 tennae, the breast, the femora above and the tibiae and tarsi, black ; elytra flavous, 

 narrowly margined with black, strongly punctate-striate, the interstices convex ; 

 abdomen flavous. Length, 4 lines. 



Head elongate, dark fulvous, the vertex finely rugose, the lower portion shining ; 

 the penultimate joint of the palpi not thicker than the preceding one ; antennae 

 black, the third to the sixth joints elongate, shining (the rest wanting), thorax but 

 slightly broader than long, the sides nearly straight, slightly narrowed before the 

 middle, the surface shining, glabrous, with two rather deep impressions (nearly con- 

 tiguous) near the base, the disc with a few scattered punctures, the latter more 

 closely placed at the sides and near the base, dark fulvous ; scutellum piceous ; elytra 

 very broad without any depressions, impubescent, flavous, all the margins narrowly 

 black, the punctuation close, and consisting of transversely shaped punctures, the 

 interstices convex and also very minutely punctate ; the shoulders with a short black 

 spot, the epipleurae entirely black ; the breast piceous, finely pubescent ; the abdo- 

 men and the posterior femora flavous, the apex of the latter black, as well as the 

 upper margins of the anterior femora and the tibiae and tarsi ; the apex of the pos- 

 terior tibiae armed with a double spur ; claws bifid. 



Ilab. : Brazil (my collection). 



Of this proportionately large sized species a single specimen was 

 given to me by a friend as having been obtained at the Brazils, without 

 nearer locality. On account of the not incrassate palpi, the bifid 

 claws, and other particulars, I have placed the species in Rhinotmctus. 

 The present group contains so many members which show so many 



