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Show 472 MR. C. O. WATERHOUSE ON THE [Apr. 5, long ; the anterior have the second, third, and fourth joints dilated; the intermediate pair are only slightly so. 3. APATE NITIDIPENNIS, n. sp. Staturafere A. terebrantis, at duplo minor, nigra, elytris piceis, nitidis, punctis crebre aspera. Long. 7\ lin. Forehead clothed with fulvous pile to rather above the middle of the eyes ; without tubercles ; the vertex finely and closely granular, with a fine smooth median line, the sides of the neck closely longitudinally rugulose. The labrum is very closely and extremely finely punctured. Clypeus moderately emarginate. Antennse pitchy, the club clear fulvous. Thorax scarcely narrower than the elytra, a trifle broader than long; the basal half closely covered with small depressed granules; the front is covered with small tubercles with rather larger ones intermixed, these latter becoming more prominent and acute towards the anterior angles; one at the anterior angles becomes a strong deflexed, recurved tooth, close to the margin. The elytra are 2\ times as long as the thorax, a very little wider near the apex than at the base ; the surface even and shining; the punctures are clear and distinct (distant from each other about twice the diameter of the larger punctures), they are fine at the base, and gradually become stronger and a little larger towards the apex, but they are very fine at the sides ; in the apical declivity the punctures are very strong ; on the back there are two pairs of lines of punctures on each elytron, indicating the dorsal costae frequently seen in this genus ; the spaces between them are not at all raised, except at the apical declivity, where they are very slightly inflated, but scarcely projecting ; the incrassated apical margin is closely and finely punctured. The underside is obscure pitchy, clothed with fine yellowish pubescence. The legs are also pitchy ; the whole of the inner side of anterior tibiae is clothed with very pale fulvous pile ; on the outer edge are three or four very small teeth. The intermediate tibiae have on their outer edge four or five very small sharp teeth; the posterior tibiae are smooth. The abdomen is opaque, very closely and extremely finely punctured. A single example, apparently a female. In the Museum collection there is a specimen from East Africa which differs from the above in having the elytra a little shorter, the punctuation on them rather stronger, with two fine dorsal costae, and with an indication of a third more lateral one; the tibiae have more teeth on their outer edge, and the posterior pair have also a few fine teeth ; the abdomen is less closely punctured; the labrum is less closely punctured ; the clypeus deeply emarginate, &c. I have no name for this species, and only mention it that it may not be confounded with that from Socotra. Both these species appear to be nearly allied to A. comifrons, Bandi de Selve (Berl. ent. Zeit. 1874, xxviii. p. 834); but that species is described as being somewhat pubescent, and the forehead ot the female has a longitudinal channel and a fovea on the vertex. |