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each side before the eyes) ; antennae moderately long, sub- 

 serrate. Pro thorax transverse, sparsely punctured, smoother 

 on the middle of the disc. Elytra much widened posteriorly, 

 blunt at the tip ; densely, rugulosely punctate, the punctures 

 coarser at the base. Anterior tibiae strongly sinuate within ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 3, 

 nigro-pectinate at tip ; intermediate tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 10j 

 greatly swollen, convex above, deeply excavate within, 

 abruptly constricted towards the apex (thus appearing angu- 

 late beyond the middle externally and subdeutate at the tip 

 beneath), and furnished with a matted, dentiform, tuft of 

 hairs (followed by another smaller tuft) beyond the middle. 



Length 7£-8, breadth 3^-3 £ mm. 



Hab. W. Central Africa, Bondaye, Kamerun (Mus. 

 Brit.), Limbala, Belgian Congo (Dr. Rodhain, in Mus. 

 Congo Beige : 5. viii. 1913). 



Twe males, the one from Bondaye captured on May 27th, 

 19H. Separable from the same sex of H. abyssinicus 

 ( = major, Pic) and H. elgonensis by the apically constricted, 

 externally angulate intermediate tibiae, the dentiform tuft 

 of hairs on their inner aspect placed in the same position as 

 in //. elgonensis. A ? from Kambove, Katanga (S. A. 

 Neave), cupreous above, and another from Welgelegen, 

 Belgian Congo (Dr. Bequaert), green, with the sides of the 

 elytra violaceous, probably belong to the same species. 

 These three forms agree in having a tumid, flavescent, 

 almost smooth epistoma in $ . 



16. Hapalochrus malachioides. 



Hapalochrus malachioides, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Eat. Fr. 1887, p. L59. 

 Hapalochrous conradti, Tic. in litt. (?). 



<J . Elongate, robust, shining; green, with the prothorax 

 or base of the elytra suffused with violaceous or cyaneous, 

 the bluish colour sometimes extending to the apex of the 

 latter, the epistoma, mouth-parts, palpi (except at tip), the 

 antennal joints 1-3 (except a dark streak along their upper 

 face), the anterior tarsi at the base, the anterior tibiae in 

 part, the intermediate femora beneath, the intermediate 

 tibiae except along their outer face, and sometimes the 

 ventral segment to a greater or lesser extent, testaceous ; 

 clothed with whitish pubescence intermixed with long, erect 

 hairs. Head about as wide as the prothorax, transversely 

 depressed and feebly canaliculate between the eyes, densely, 

 finely punctate, smoother at the base, the epistoma flattened j 

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