On new Malachiid Beetles. 33 



Stenomacrus sp. 



2 c?," thy tundi-a on shingle, 0-60 ft.," 11. viii. 1021. 



On first studying the Stenomacrus material of this collec- 

 tion I did not separate the above examples from S. pedestris, 

 but hater suspected tliey might be distinct. 



I accordingly sent them to Dr. Roman, who tells me that 

 in his Spitsbergen collection there are also two males com- 

 parable with those collected by Mr. Elton. Dr. Roman, 

 however, is not yet prepared to offer a decided opinion as to 

 the status of this form, and here the matter must for the 

 present rest. 



British Museum (Nat. Hist,), 

 Nov. 1922. 



V. — New Malachiid Beetles and further Notes on the 

 Disti^ibution and Synonymy of various other Species from 

 South and East Africa [ Coleoptera'] . By Gr. C. Champion, 

 F.Z.S. 



Since the publication of my papers on the African species of 

 the Malachiid-genera Hapalochrus, Hedybius, Ebisus, Attains, 

 &c., in recent volumes of this Magazine (1920-22), some 

 overlooked material, including several novelties^ has been 

 found in the buried ^'^ accessions '" in the British Museum, 

 and various other forms have come to hand from S. Africa, 

 these latter having been communicated by Dr. Peringuey, 

 or received from Mr. R. E. Turner and the '^Imperial Bureau 

 of Entomology. ^^ Mr. H. E. Box, too, has recently brought 

 four new Malachiids captured by himself during the present 

 year at Kabete, near Nairobi, E.Africa, as well as six species 

 of Hapalochrus, from the same locality. The new forms are 

 numbered to indicate where they should be placed in the 

 arrangement previously adopted. 



Hapalochrus, Er. 



In addition to some corrections in the synonymy [Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vi. pp. 537-539], two species, cyatieo- 

 guttatus (No. 9 «) and 7iatalensis (No. 9 5), were subsequently 

 added \^op. cit. (9) vii. pp. 344, 345] ; one, dollmani (No. 58j 

 transferred to a separate genus, Notomalachius [op. cit. (9) 

 ix. p. 580] ; and one, dasytiformis (No 10), proved to be a 



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