and Asiatic Species of Hapaloehrus. 183 



preceded by a long, matted, dentiform tuft of curled fulvous 

 hairs and followed by a smaller tuft of similar hairs, these 

 tufts arising from the cavernous lower surface. 



Var. The testaceous lateral markings on the elytra extend- 

 ing inwards and forming an angulate median fascia, the 

 suhapical green fascia sometimes reduced to an irregular 

 oblique green patch on the disc of each elytron. — 

 ? = H.jansoni, Pic, ? (1912). 



Hub. W.Africa, Benguela, Congo, Gaboon (Pic), Agoue, 

 Benin (Abbe Menager), Angola, Whydah {Mus. Brit.), Lagos 

 in S. Nigeria (J. A. de Gaye), Cotonou in Dahomey, 70 miles 

 W. of Lagos (W.A. Lamborn : v., vi. 1914 : <$ ? : Mus. Brit., 

 Mus. Oxon.), Tamsoo, Gold Coast (Mus. Brit.: $ ) ; Lam- 

 barene, French Congo {L. Feci: xi., xii. 1902 : $ ? : Mus. 

 Genoa); Boma, Sassa, Tolo, Eala, Kundi, Lukolela, 

 Kwamoutli, Bas-Kasai, Coquilhatville, &c, Belgian Congo 

 (Mus. Congo Beige: <$ ? , and vars ). 



Numerous examples of this species are before me, including 

 sixteen males, mostly belonging to the Congo, Genoa, or 

 Oxford Museums : the variety (J = H. jansoni, Pic, type $ ) 

 is represented by a ? from Dahomey and a <-£ from the 

 Congo. The only $ -character noted by Pic is the " simple 

 antennas/' The testaceous anterior portion of the head is 

 of course peculiar to that sex, the ? having the head 

 entirely metallic. 



4. Hapaloehrus nobilis. 



$. Apalochrus nobilis, Er. Archiv fur Naturg. 1843, ], p. 226. 

 Hapalochrous nobilis, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv. (Sept. 1912). 



Hab. W. Africa, Angola {type of Erichson), Onitsha in 

 S. Nigeria (J. A. de Gaye : vii. 1910 : ? ). 



A $ from Nigeria in the British Museum agrees with the 

 description of A. nobilis, except in having the antennas, 

 femora, and tarsi darker, a character of no importance in the 

 present genus. This insect is extremely like H. longior, Pic, 

 and has the elytra marked as in one of the forms of that 

 species — metallic bluish-green, with a triangular patch at 

 the middle of the sides and another at the apex testaceous ; 

 from which it is separable by the broader and more robust 

 build, and the rugosely punctured sides of the prothorax. 

 The J 1 -chai'acters may prove to be dissimilar from those of 

 the allied H. longior, an insect also occurring in Angola. 



