and Asiatic Species of Hapalochms. 255 



two males, belonging to the Congo Museum. Very like 

 H. longicomis, the $ with the autennse less elongate and 

 testaceous in their basal half, a longer tooth to the anterior 

 trochanters, and more sharply angulate intermediate femora. 

 H. kolbei, Bourg., from Kilimandjaro, &c, seems to be an 

 allied larger form, with the anterior femora and tibiae partly 

 testaceous in the $ , and the head densely rugose. 



33. Hapalochrus semicupreus. 



c?. Apahchrus semicupreus and var. moloensis, Pic, Melanges exot.- 

 entom. xxxi. p. 10 (Oct. 1919) (part.). 



$ . Moderately elongate, rather convex, shining, some- 

 what thickly clothed with long, erect, fuscous hairs ; head, 

 pro thorax, and scutellum brilliant cupreous, golden, or golden- 

 green, the elytra cyaueous, the antennae (the testaceous outer 

 and inner edges of joints 1-3 excepted), palpi, legs, and 

 abdomen metallic or black. Head short, sparsely, some- 

 what coarsely punctate ; antennae long, rather slender, 

 joints 2-9 elongate, subcylindrical. Prothorax convex, a 

 little broader than long, abruptly, obliquely narrowed at the 

 base ; sparsely, coarsely punctate, the punctures becoming 

 more crowded towards the sides. Elytra about as broad as 

 the prothorax at the base, gradually widened to beyond the 

 middle and bluntly rounded at the apex, the lateral mar- 

 gins prominent ; coarsely, confluently, rugosely punctate. 

 Anterior trochanters with a long tooth ; anterior tibiae 

 obliquely widened and dentate towards the tip within, the 

 space between this and the apex diaphanous and deeply 

 emarginate ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 slightly thickened, 

 subequal in length (when viewed in profile), 2 narrowly 

 extended over 3 ; intermediate tibiae greatly thickened, 

 subtriangular, convex and rounded externally, excavate 

 beneath, and with a short compressed lobe at the inner 

 apical angle. 



$ . Antennae shorter and more slender ; head and pro- 

 thorax a little narrower ; elytra inflated, more rounded at 

 the sides ; wings squamiform, extremely rudimentary. 



Length 4-4|, breadth 2-24 mm. (<J ? .) 



Hab. E. Africa (Mus. Brit., ex Gregory coll. : 1894 : ? ), 

 Western foot of Aberdare, alt. 8000 ft., and W. slopes of 

 Kenya, on Meru-Nyeri Road, alt. 6000-8500 ft. (S. A. 

 Neave : ii., iii. 1911), Elgon District (Dr. Bayer, in Mus. 

 Congo Beige). 



The above description is taken from a long series, £ ? , 

 captured by Dr. Neave in 1911. Recognizable by the 



