and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 191 



i. 1917: c?), Yala River, S. edge of Kakumga Forest, 

 alt. 4800-5300 ft. [<?], Nyangori in N. Kavirondo, alt. 

 4800 ft. (S. A. Neave : v. 1911 : <?), Mlanje [i. 1913 : <J ] 

 and between Mangoche and Chikala Boma, alt. 4000 ft. 

 [iii. 1910 : ? ], in Nyasaland (S. A. Neave), Kashitu and 

 Nainwala in N."W. Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman: iii. 1913, xi., 

 xii. 1914, i. 1915 : c? ? ) ; Abyssinia {types of Harold: $ ? ). 

 The above description is taken from a series of fourteen 

 males and four females belonging to the British. Museum. 

 The males agree with a specimen of H. major from the 

 CongO named by Pic, and they are separable from the same 

 sex of H. elgonensis by the form of the intermediate tibise, 

 which are convex and broad to very near the apex above, 

 and have the dentiform tuft of matted hairs placed near the 

 tip. The tibise and the basal joints of the antennas and 

 tarsi vary in colour, these portions of the legs being wholly 

 or in great part testaceous in- the Rhodesian series received 

 from the late H. C. Dollman. The colour of the upper 

 surface, too, is variable, as stated by Harold, the elytra 

 heing brassy cupreous in a pair from Nyasaland. Dr. Gestro 

 lias lent me a ? from Abyssinia agreeing with Harold's 

 diagnosis and with the other specimens before me of the 

 same sex, and the only discrepancy between the description 

 of the Congo insect and the one from Abyssinia is that 

 Harold did not state that the yellowish anterior border of 

 the head (epistoma) was swollen. H. opulentus, Pering. 

 (1892), types, J 1 ? , length 8-9 mm., from N. Ovampoland, 

 is an allied form with the head wholly green in $*. 



14. Hapalochrus elgonensis, sp. u. 



d . Moderately elongate, robust, shining; cyaneous, green, 

 or golden-green, the palpi and joints 2-10 of the antennas 

 black, joints 1-3 of the latter testaceous beneath, 1 with a 

 green streak above, the epistoma and labrum, the excavate 

 inner portion of the intermediate tibise (including the pencil 

 of hairs), and the abdomen at the sides and middle ante- 

 riorly, testaceous or rufescent ; clothed with shaggy whitish 

 pubescence intermixed with numerous long, fine, pallid, 

 erect hairs. Head nearly as wide as the prothorax, densely, 

 very finely punctate, and deeply, transversely depressed 

 between the eyes, smoother at the base, the epistoma swollen 

 and almost impunctate (the tumid space forming a 

 i — i-shaped flavescent ridge between the bases of the an- 

 tennas) ; antennas subserrate, long, rather stout, joints 2-9 



* The tjpe has recently been lent me by Dr. Peringuey for comparison. 



