182 Mr. Gr. C. Champion on various African 



Bolieman and Bourgeois, and in one of those from Salisbury, 

 and another from Mkomasi before me, and broader and 

 asymmetrically bifurcate in the 28 other males seen from 

 Rhodesia, Lake Ngami, and Nyasaland. Some of the 

 Salisbury examples (<J ? ) have the metallic patches of the 

 elytra longitudinally confluent, and in two females from 

 the same locality the markings are altogether wanting. 

 H. erichsoni, Roth, from Abyssinia, a ? of which determined 

 by Dr. Gestro is before me, is probably synonymous with 

 H. sumtuosus. 



2. Hapahchrus deformipes. 



Ilapalochrus (Hapalochrops) deformipes, Bourg. in Sjostedt'3 Kili- 

 mandjaro-Meru Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 132, t. 3. fig. 14 ( J ) 

 (1910). 



$ . Characters as in typical H. sumtuosus, Boh. : the 

 inner apical angle of the anterior tibia? produced into a long, 

 curved, outwardly-directed spine as in the males described 

 by Boheman and Bourgeois. 



Hub. E. Africa, Bauks of the River Ngare na nyuki, 

 Mem (Dr. Sjostedt) ; Eritrea (coll. Bourgeois) . 



This insect, the unique type ( rf ) of which has been kindly 

 forwarded for examination by Dr. Sjostedt, is probably, as 

 suggested by Bourgeois, a form of H. sumtuosus with the 

 upper surface uniformly metallic. The ^-cliai'acters are 

 precisely similar. The ? with a metallic prothorax, from 

 A mara, Eritrea, provisionally referred by the same author 

 to H. sumtuosus (p. 132, nota), affords a connecting-link 

 between the two forms, if it really belongs to this group ? 



3. Hapalochrus lonyior. 



$ . Hapaloehrous longior, Pic, Le Naturaliste, xxv. p. 81 (1903) ; 

 Melanges exot.-eutoiu. iv. p. 2 (Sept. 1912). 



^ . Epistoma testaceous, the oblique lateral portions almost 

 smooth and somewhat tumid ; antenna? long, feebly serrate ; 

 anterior tibiae excavate towards the apex within, the apical 

 portion somewhat thickened ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, subequal in length, 2 with a black comb at the 

 tip ; intermediate femora (PI. VIII. fig. 9 «) with a large, 

 oval, depressed, metallic area at the base beneath ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae (PI. VIII. figs. 9, 9 a) enormously thickened, 

 rounded and convex externally, deeply excavate beneath, and 

 abruptly emarginate before the apex within, the emargiuation 



