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of the thorax. The elytra are ovate not wider at the base than the thorax, very slightly 
sinuated near their apex ; the striae are very fine, faintly punctulate, and the interstices flat 
and impunctate throughout, except the marginal one and the customary one on the third. 
The colour is deep black, with a bright silky gloss in the <J , hut nearly opaque in the 9 . The 
abdomen is impunctate. The metasternum has a few large punctures. Terminal spur of 
anterior tibiae long and lanceolate. 
Ilab . — No locality. Probably near Yarkand. 
29. — Hypolithus pebxucens. 
Bates, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 715. 
Piceo-niger, latte iridescens, glaber, antennis, palpis, et pedibus fulvo-testaceis : capite 
Icevissimo, post oculos angustato, mandibulis magis rectis et acutis piceo-rufis ; fovea frontali 
lineari versus oculum curvata : thorace quadrato, lateribus leniter fere a quad iter arcuatis, 
angnlis posticis valde obtusis, margine postico late sinuato ; supra limbo toto crebre subtiliter 
punctulato, disco sparsim punctulato, polito, marginibus rufescentibus : elytris fortiter striatis , 
inter stitiis paullulum convexis, politissimis, tertio ( grope striam secundam ) multipunctato. 
Long. lin. 9 . 
Agrees with certain species of South Africa, in the curved linear frontal fovea, and with 
such species as E. glaber (Boh.) in its naked surface. The undersurf ace of the insect is irides- 
cent and glabrous, as well as the upper ; the ventral segments and the deflexed margins of the 
elytra being more or less rufescent. The metasteruum has a few shallow punctures. The 
legs are naked, with the exception of a few stout spines on the outer side of the tibise and a 
few setae on their inner side and underneath the tarsi. The tooth in the emargination of the 
mentum is very short, hut distinct. 
Hab. — Jhelam Valley. 
HTPSINEPil US, nov. gen. 
Bates, Proe. Zool. Soc. 187-8, p. 715. 
Generi Selenoplioro proxime affine. Corpus elongato-ellipticum gen. Calatho hand 
dissimile, supra glabrum. Caput antice baud obtusnm , labrum et mandibulce modice elongata. 
Mentum rotundato-emarginatuni , edentatum. Palpi elongati ; maxillarii articulo terminali 
penultimo breviori, snbfusiformi sed apiee distincte truncato. Thorax quadratus. Elytra 
glabra, interstitiis tertio, quinto, et septimo {apiee) pluripunctatis. Pedes elongati, validi : 
tarsi <J , articulis anticis 4 dilatatis, cordatis, squamigeris, primo basi g radii apiee subito dila- 
tato, quarto breviter bilobo. Tibia: intermedia: ? arena tee. 
A new genus is necessary for the reception of a species in Dr. Stolicz lea’s collection which 
agrees with the American Selenophori in its chief characters, but differs wholly in facies 
from that numerous group. The totally different form of the dilated tarsal joints in the male 
affords a good distinguishing character ; the other features enumerated above having only a 
minor importance. The species described below has doubtless many Asiatic congeners ; one I 
have found among the ILarpali collected by Dr. Maack in Eastern Siberia. 
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