184 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



5. Hapalochrus festivus. 



2 . Apalochrus festivus, Er. Entoniographien, p. 52 (1840). 

 Hapalochrvus festivus, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. iv. p. 3 (Sept. 1912). 



<J . Antennae simply serrate, long ; anterior tibiae excavate 

 towards the apex within, the apical portion thickened ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 stout, equal in length, 2 with a 

 black comb at the apex ; intermediate femora simple ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 3) strongly incrassate, convex 

 above, concave beneath, broadly, arcuately dilated towards 

 the apex within, and then very deeply excavate between this 

 and the tip ; antennae and legs testaceous, the apices of the 

 former, and the tarsi in part, slightly infuscate, the posterior 

 femora black or metallic at the apex. 



Hob. W. Africa, Senegal (Mus. Brit.: cJ), Gaboon (Mus. 

 Oxon. : cJ ) . 



The <$ of this species (if correctly named in the British 

 Museum) is apparently undescribed, the $ type from 

 Senegal having darker legs, as is often the case in the pre- 

 sent genus. An elongate insect, with the head and prothorax 

 metallic green, and the elytra testaceous, with a large patch 

 on the disc below the base, and a common broad subapical 

 fascia, green. 



Pic (Melanges exot.-entom. xxx. p. 11, 1919) includes 

 H. festivus, Er., and its allies in a new subgenus, Cladapa- 

 lochrus ; but he has presumably incorrectly identified the $ 

 of H. festivus, which has simply serrate (not fiabellate} 

 antennae in that sex, as in H. longior. 



H. senegalensis, Pic (type $ , with fiabellate antennae, 

 1912), and H. viridipes, Pic (type ? , 1912), from W.Africa, 

 and H. degeorgisi, Pic (type $ , 1914), from the Congo, are 

 maculate forms that do not seem to be represented in the 

 collections before me. 



6. Hapalochrus sjostedti. 



Hapalochrus sjostedti, Bourg. in Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro - Meru 



Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 132, t._3. fig. 15 (tf) (1908) (nee Apalo. 



chrus sjostedti, var. diversipes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. xxxi. 



p. 10, Oct. 1919). 

 Var. Hapalochrous simplicipes, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 193 



{S) (1909). 



$ . Moderately elongate, shining, somewhat thickly 

 clothed with fine, semi-erect, whitish hairs; caeruleous, 

 bluish-green, or violaceous, the antenna? black, with the two 

 basal joints entirely or in part testaceous ; the anterior and 

 intermediate legs wholly or in part (usually black along their 



