192 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



elongate. Pro-thorax much broader than long, very sparsely 

 punctulate, deeply, transversely grooved before the base. 

 Elytra long, flattened on the disc anteriorly, gradually 

 widened posteriorly, bluntly rounded at the apex ; densely, 

 finely, rugosely punctate. Anterior tibiae rather slender, 

 hollowed towards the apex within ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intermediate femora 

 concave beneath, slightly curved ; intermediate tibiae 

 (PI. VIII. fig. 8) greatly swollen, convex above, rounded 

 externally, deeply excavate and sinuate within, and furnished 

 with a matted, dentiform tuft of hairs at a little behind the 

 middle. 



? . Head metallic to the anterior margin, the epistoma 

 flattened, the transverse depression shallower ; antennae 

 much shorter ; legs wholly metallic. 



Length 6-7, breadth 2f-3 mm. ( J ? .) 



Hab. E. Africa, S. foot and slopes of Mt. Elgon, alt. 

 5100-5800 ft. [<J ? : 8-13. vi. 1913], and Siroko River, 

 near W. foot of Mt. Elgon, alt. 3600 ft., in Uganda 

 [ ? : 12-14. viii. 1911] (S. A. Neave). 



Thirty-one specimens, three only of which are males. 

 Recognizable in this sex by the tumid, flavescent epistoma, 

 and the greatly swollen curved intermediate tibiae, which 

 bear a matted dentiform tuft of testaceous hairs near the 

 middle. A close ally of H. abyssinicus and H. const?°ictipes, 

 the only other allied forms known to me with a flavescent 

 tumid epistoma in £ . this character separating H. elgonensis 

 from the same sex of H. malachioides, the epistoma in the 

 latter being flattened. 



15. Hapalochrus constrictipes, sp. n. 



cJ . Elongate, robust, shining ; green, the head, pro- 

 thorax, and base and sides of the elytra tinged with 

 cyaneous, the epistoma, labrum, basal joint of antennae, 

 palpi (except at tip), anterior and intermediate femora 

 (except a streak on the anterior pair above) and tibiae, 

 posterior femora at the base and the tibiae in part, and the 

 ventral surface (except down the middle), testaceous; 

 thickly clothed with shaggy whitish pubescence intermixed 

 with long, erect, pallid hairs. • Head narrower than the 

 prothorax, densely, very finely punctate and transversely 

 depressed between the eyes, smoother at the base, the 

 epistoma greatly swollen and almost impunctate (the lateral 

 portions forming a prominent, oblique, flavescent ridge on 



