2-50 Mr. G. 0. Champion on various African 



curved appendage at the inner apical angle and a shorter 

 appendage beneath the outer angle. 



Var. £. Anterior trochanters simple; intermediate tibiae 

 testaceous. [Congo da Lemba.] 



? . Antenna? very similar to those of $ ; legs black. 



Length 3£-5, breadth lf-S^ mm. ( $ ? .) 



Hab. W. Central Africa, Belgian Congo : Amadi (P. 

 van den Phis : $ ? : types), Congo da Lemba (R. Mayne : 

 3 ? : var.), Wombali (P. Vanderijst), Bambili (Dr. Rod/tarn), 

 Nyangwe (R. Mayne), Beni-Lesse (Dr. Murtula), &c. 



Described from a series of upwards of 100 examples, the 

 sexes in about equal numbers, belonging to the Congo 

 Museum. The form with dark intermediate tibiae in $ is 

 represented by more than 50 specimens from Amadi, and 

 the one with these tibiae red in $ by at least a dozen from 

 Congo da Lemba. A female of it in the same Museum lias 

 been named by Pic H. testaceicornis, this insect being sepa- 

 rable from the same sex of //. azureus as here understood by 

 the stouter antennae, and the finer and denser puncturing of 

 the elytra, and from that of H. testaceicornis by the shining, 

 less rugose head. The more strongly appendiculate inter- 

 mediate tibiae of the $ distinguishes H. inchoatus from 

 //. dahomeyanus, these two forms having the autennal joints 

 uudilated as in ? $ of H. testaceicornis and H . fusicornis . 



2G. Hapalochr us fusicornis, sp. n. 



cJ . Moderately elongate, rather convex, shining, clothed 

 with semi-erect, whitish pubescence ; bluish-green or green, 

 the basal half of the antennas (a dark streak on joint 1 

 excepted), the anterior femora at the tip, the intermediate 

 femora at the base in front, and the anterior tibiae entirely, 

 testaceous. Head short, nearly as wide as the prothorax, 

 closely, finely punctulate; antenna? stout, moderately long, 

 tapering from joint 3, the latter much thickened and longer 

 than 2. Prothorax transverse, convex, obliquely narrowed 

 posteriorly, smooth on the disc, finely punctate at the sides. 

 Elytra oblong, at the base about as broad as the prothorax, 

 a little widened posteriorly, densely, rugulosely punctate. 

 Anterior trochanters unarmed; anterior femora with a small 

 tooth at the base; anterior tibiae moderately widened, simply 

 sinuate and compressed ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 rather long, somewhat thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae stout, simpiy sinuate on their inner and outer 

 aspects, appearing subangulate when viewed from the side. 



$ . Antennae more slender, feebly serrate, joint 3 not 



