and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 187 



fig. 1) twisted and dilated obliquely into a short, stout, 

 convex lobe at about the middle above, the lobe concave 

 beneath, the outer portion of the tibia narrow and com- 

 pressed ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, subequal 

 in length, 2 projecting over 3 and nigro-pectinate at the tip ; 

 intermediate tibia? rather slender, slightly sinuate within. 



Length -i\, breadth 2| mm. 



Hab. W. Africa, Gold Coast (A. E. Evans), Quingua 

 (E. Simon, tijpe of Pic). 



A S from the Gold Coast, received by the British Museum 

 in 1913, is apparently referable to H. simoni. A bright blue, 

 rather convex, albo-pilose insect, with the antennas, legs, and 

 abdomen testaceous, the antennas pectinate, the anterior 

 femora toothed and incrassate, the anterior tibiae twisted 

 and shortly, obliquely lobed at the middle, the intermediate 

 tibiae slender and sinuate within. A much larger ? 

 (length 6^, breadth r?£ mm.), from Sierra Leone, in the 

 same collection, may belong to the present species : it has 

 however, the antennas (except the basal joint beneath) and 

 legs black, and the head and the sides of the prothorax more 

 densely punctured. The $ is separable from that of 

 H. sjostedti (simplicipes, Pic) by the testaceous legs and 

 antennae, the mesially dilated anterior tibiae, and the more 

 convex body. H. pectinatus, Pic (1911), type $ , from 

 Shirati, is an allied form with pectinate antennae in <$ . 

 The locality "Quingua" cannot be traced on any map 

 available to myself. 



9. Hapalochrus hbipes, sp. n. 



3 . Extremely like H. sjostedti, Bourg., var. simplicipes, 

 Pic, and similarly coloured — green, with the anterior and 

 intermediate legs, the antennae in parr, and the abdomen 

 testaceous ; the anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 6) strongly 

 bifurcate at the middle, the outer lobe long, broad, rounded 

 at the tip, the inner compressed distal portion of the tibia 

 narrow ; the anterior femora (PI. VIII. fig. 6) toothed at the 

 middle ; the elytral puncturing rather fine. 



Length 5 A, breadth 3 mm. 



Hab. W. Central Africa, Tolo, Belgian Congo (Dr. J. 

 Maes, in Mus. Congo Beige : xii. 1913). 



One male. The lobe of the anterior tibiae is more developed 

 in this insect than in any other Hapalochrus before me, 

 H. simoni forming a sort of connecting-link between H. sim- 

 plicipes and H. lobipes. A distinctive name is therefore 

 required for the specimen from Tolo. 



