BY THE REV. T. BLACKBURN. 
1347 
as long down the middle and its base is nearly twice as 
wide as its front margin which is gently emarginate with front 
angles but little advanced ; its sides diverge from the apex in 
nearly straight lines to the middle and then are gently arched to 
the base with which they form an obtuse angle on either side ; the 
base is strongly lobed backward in the middle. The transverse 
wrinkling of the elytra is well-marked and there is no trace of 
striae. The underside and legs closely resemble those of H. 
(equalis, but the inner apical angle of the hind femora is gently 
and obtusely prominent. 
Victor Harbour. 
H. GRACILIPES, Sp.nOV. 
Sat elougatus ; postice leviter dilatatus ; sat nitidus ; nigro- 
piceus, antennis palpisque testaceis, tarsis rufescentibus ; pilis 
brevibus adpressis albidis vestitus ; supra fortius sat crebre 
punctulatus j abdominis segmeutis 2-5 capillis erectis (lineatim 
transversim positis) instructis. [Long. 4-5, lat. 2-2^ lines. 
The puncturation of the whole upper surface from the apex of 
the clypeus to that of the elytra is quite uniform, moderately fine 
and close but not deeply impressed ; the clypeus is evenly margined 
and rounded in front, its surface not quite in a continuous plane 
with that of the rest of the head, the clypeal suture moderately 
impressed and arched. The prothorax is two-thirds again as wide 
as long down the middle, and the base is aVjout two-thirds again 
as wide as the front which is strongly emarginate with sharp pro- 
minent angles ; the sides diverge to behind the middle in nearly 
straight lines, and thence are arched to the ba.se with which viewed 
from above they seem to form a defined obtuse angle, but viewed 
from the side the true margin is seen to be quite rounded off with 
the base which is only lightly blsinuate though the middle is ratlier 
strongly i)ioduced backward in a lobe. The transverse wrinkling 
of the elytra is not very conspicuous ; these have no (or almost no) 
trace of striae ; there is a very fine membranous border behind, 
and the lateral fringe is not continued round the apex. I'he 
pygidiuin is sparingly and very faintly {)unctur(;d and is clothed 
