454: Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



piceous, with the last abdominal segments dark ferruginous ; the 

 prothorax is not quite so ampliate on the anterior part, but the acicu- 

 lation of the base and of the lateral impressions is the same ; the 

 mandibles are not so suddenly hooked at the tip. Length 11 mm. ; 

 width 4|- mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



Gen. HAEPALOMOEPHUS. 



Mentum short, emarginate in the shape of a crescent and without 

 any median sinuation, the apical part of the lobes very sharp ; 

 ligula short, narrow ; paraglossas lobate, ovate, not longer than the 

 ligula, and slightly excised from it near the tip, last joint of the outer 

 maxillary lobes not so slender as in the other Harpalid ; head short 

 in the anterior part ; labrum and mandibles short, thus giving the 

 head a very blunt look ; prothorax short, more narrow behind than 

 in Harpahis ; elytra oblong, striate, intervals plane ; anterior and 

 median tarsi of the male dilated, the four basal joints cordiform, the 

 fourth one slightly incised, and all four squamulose underneath ; 

 abdominal segments fringed with long hairs. 



Less ovate than Bmomimetes ; this genus is easily distinguished by 

 the structure of the paraglossse, which are not so long and more ovate ; 

 the apical joint of the outer lobe of the maxillae is subfusiform, 

 truncate at the tip, considerably thicker than in any other Harpalid, 

 and the whole lobe shorter than the maxilla ; the head is very blunt 

 in front owing to the shortness of the mandibles, and the correspond- 

 ing shortening of the labrum, which is truncate in front but deeply 

 sinuate at the base ; the mentum is emarginate in the shape of a 

 crescent, without any dent or sinuation at the tip of the epilobes. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Third interval of elytra with a puncture in the posterior part. 



Subseneous ; sutural part of elytra rufescent . . capicola. 



Head, prothorax, and legs black ; elytra brick-red rufijpennis. 



Third interval of elytra without any apparent puncture. 



Upper part very dark seneous green ; legs rufescent cEueipennis 



Upper part black, opaque modestus. 



Harpalomoephus capicola. 

 Head and prothorax black, shining ; the elytra with a faint aeneous 

 sheen, with the suture rufescent ; antennae, labrum, palpi, and legs 

 rufescent ; head smooth ; prothorax ampliate laterally in the median 

 part, narrow behind, slightly sinuate above the posterior angle, wiiich 

 is acute, lateral basal impressions normal, disk smooth ; elytra 

 oblong, narrowly striate ; intervals plane, smooth, the third one 



