and Asiatic Species of Hapaloclirus. 181 



Hapalochrous sumptuosus (<$), and vars. ($) nynssensis and sig- 



naticollis, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv. pp. 2, 3 (Sept. 1912). 

 $ . Apalochrus sumptuosus, var. reductus, Pic, op. cit. xxxi. p. 10 



(Oct. 1919). 

 Var.? Apalochrus erichsonii, Eotli in Wiegmann's Archiv, 1851, 1, 



p. 120 (tf ?). 

 Hapalochrus eriehsonii, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Genova, xxxv. p. 353 ( $ ) 



(1895). 



$ . Antennae long, flabellate from joint 4 onward ; anterior 

 femora stout ; anterior tibiae rapidly widening outward, 

 slightly sinuate within, the inner apical angle produced into a 

 long, curved, pointed spine, which extends outward beneath 

 the first tarsal joint ; anterior tarsal joint 1 elongate, stout, 

 compressed, ciliate externally, 2 much shorter, broadly oval, 

 convex above, concave beneath, extending over joint 3 

 to its apex, nigro-pectinate at the tip (PI. VIII. fig. 7) ; 

 intermediate femora stout, feebly curved ; intermediate tibiae 

 (PL VIII. fig 7 b) slender at the base, enormously dilated, 

 curved, and convex towards the apex above, deeply exca- 

 vate and pilose towards the apex within and beneath. 



£ . Var. 1. Anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 7) shorter 

 and more swollen at the apex, the inner apical angle produced 

 into a long, curved spine (as in the type of H. sumtuosus), the 

 outer apical angle also produced into a short, curved, 

 downwardly-directed tooth. 



J. Var. 2. Anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 7a) with the 

 inner apical angle produced into a rather broad, compressed, 

 curved lobe, which extends outward beneath the first tarsal 

 joint and bears a long inwardly-curved hook towards the 

 apex externally (the lobe thus appearing asymmetrically 

 bifurcate at the tip) . 



Var. $ . Elytra entirely fulvous. 



Hab. E. Africa, Caffraria (types of Boheman : $ ? ), 

 Transvaal and Ovampoland (sec. Peringuey), Mashonalaiid 

 (H. B. Dobble), Waterburg (W. L. Distant), Salisbury 

 (G. A. K. Marshall: <$ vars. 1, 2, ? ), Mwengwa in N.W. 

 Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman), Chiromo in Nvasaland (R. C. 

 Wood), Nyasaland S.W. of Lake Chilwa" {S. A. Neave), 

 Mkomasi, Tanganyika Territory (A. Loveridge, in Mus. 

 Oxon. : <$), Lake Ngami {Mus. Brit., Mus. Oxon.), Kili- 

 mandjaro (Dr. Sjostedt), Arussi Galla in Abyssinia (Bottego, 

 in Mus. Genoa : ? ), Eritrea (sec. Bourgeois). 



A common insect in E. Africa, but not extending into the 

 Congo Hegion. The anterior tibia? of the $ exhibit three 

 variations in the development of the very long curved 

 apical spur, this being spiniform in the males described by 



