and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 251 



dilated, 1-3 partly testaceous ; legs almost wholly black or 

 metallic. 



Length 4-4 i, breadth l§-2 mm. 



Bab. W. Africa, Cotonou in Dahomey, 70 miles due W. 

 of Lagos (TV. A. Lamborn : v., vi. 1914, vi. 1915). 



Two males and three females. Very like the Nigerian 

 H. dilaticornis, the <J with stout, much less dilated, tapering 

 antennae, with enlarged third joint, the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibiae moderately thickened and simply sinuate, the 

 latter subangulate externally and not bilobate at tip. More 

 robust than H. azureus, Er. ( = caruleus, Murr.), the antennae 

 stouter in both sexes, the ^-characters very different. The 

 allied H. ts'chofferri, Pic (1907), from the Congo, type (J, has 

 tapering, less thickened antennae, with smaller third joint, 

 basally dentate anterior femora, moderately inflated inter- 

 mediate tibiae, &c. H. diversipes, Pic (1919), type £?, in- 

 correctly treated as a variety of H. sjbstedti, seems to have 

 similar antennae. 



27. Hapalochrus d attorney anus, sp. n. 



<$ . Extremely like H. fusicornis: antennae feebly serrate, 

 formed and coloured as in the $ of that species, the third joint 

 not dilated; anterior femora (except along their upper edge) 

 and tibiae, and the intermediate femora beneath, testaceous; 

 anterior femora with a slender tooth at the extreme base ; 

 anterior tibiae twisted and dilated, compressed, and excavate 

 towards the apex ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and. 2 slightly 

 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intermediate tibiae very 

 stout, elongate-triangular, not angulate at the middle, exter- 

 nally, furnished with a short, broad, compressed, testaceous 

 lobe at the inner apical angle, and with a short tooth beneath 

 the outer angle ; elytra a little smoother at the base. 



Length 4, breadth If mm. 



Hab. W. Africa, Cotonou in Dahomey (TV. A. Lamborn : 

 31. v. 1914). 



One $ , found, at the same locality as H. fusicornis, 

 differing from it as stated above. 



28. Hapalochrus ischoffeni. 



Mapalochrous tschoffeni, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 384 (S) 

 (1907). 



$ . Antennae testaceous (except at the tip), rather stout, 

 tapering towards the apex ; anterior legs (the tips of the 

 tarsi excepted) testaceous, the trochanters unarmed, the 

 femora with a long, slender tooth at the extreme base, 



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