190 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



head, the sides of the prothorax, and the elytra rugosely 

 punctured, the <$ with pectinate antenna 3 ,, simple anterior 

 tibiae, and slightly thickened, partly testaceous intermediate 

 tibiae. The legs, as is often the case in the present genus, 

 vary in colour, the Nyasa $ having the posterior pair 

 entirely, and the anterior and intermediate tibiae at their 

 apices (as in the Rhodesian ? ), black. The Nyasa specimen 

 (c? ) was received at the British Museum in 1877. H. ramu- 

 losus seems to be allied to H. pectinatus, Pic (1911), types 

 ( (J ? ) from Shirati, E. Africa ; but as the latter is described 

 as bluish-black in colour, and the narrow shape is not 

 mentioned, the two insects are scarcely likely to be 

 conspecific. 



13. Hapalochrus abyssinicus. 



Hapalochrus abyssinicus, Harold, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1878, 

 p.2l9(rf$). 



Hapalochrous major, Pio, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 385 (1907) (<5). 



£ . Extremely like the same sex of H. elgonensis, but a 

 little larger and more robust, the head narrower than the 

 prothorax, the latter relatively broader, the colour still more 

 variable — golden-green, or in part cyaneous, the elytra rarely 

 brassy-cupreous, the basal joints of the antennae, the palpi 

 (except at the tip), and all the tibiae and the basal joint of 

 each tarsus (as well as the epistoma and labrum) wholly 

 testaceous in nearly all the specimens from N.W. Rhodesia, 

 the intermediate tibiae always in great part testaceous, the 

 sides of the abdomen rufescent; the puncturing of the 

 elytra finer and denser ; the epistoma similarly swollen and 

 almost smooth, but with the oblique lateral portions some- 

 what curved ; anterior tibiae slightly hollowed towards the 

 apex within ; intermediate femora curved ; intermediate 

 tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 4) greatly swollen, convex and broad to 

 very near the apex above, deeply excavate within, angulate 

 on their lower outer edge at about the middle, and furnished 

 with a dentiform, matted tuft of hairs near the inner apical 

 angle. 



? . Head metallic to the anterior margin, the epistoma 

 flattened ; antennae (except at the base beneath) and legs 

 sometimes black or metallic, the tibiae testaceous in the 

 Kasitu examples, the antennae much shorter than in $ . 



Length 7-8£, breadth 3£-3f mm. ( <$ ? .) 



Hab. W.C. Africa, Moliro and Mpala (Duvivier ; type of 

 Pio: (J), Road from Luena, Sassa, and Amadi, Congo 

 (Mus. Congo Beige : <$ ) ; E. Africa, Ndala Mission, 

 33° 15' E., 4° 45' S. (Dr. G. H. Carpenter : xii. 1916— 



