256 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



brilliantly metallic golden, cupreous, or green, rather 

 coarsely punctured head and prothorax, and the cyaneous, 

 very rugose elytra, the ? almost apterous and having the 

 elytra inflated as in the same sex of H. amplipennis, Harold. 

 The rather coarsely punctured head and prothorax, the 

 strongly toothed anterior trochanters and the longer second 

 joint of the anterior tarsi of the £ , &c, separate H. semi- 

 cupreus from the last-named insect. 



The incomplete diagnosis of Pic (excluding his subsp. 

 Tcenyensis and var. viridimet alliens) doubtless applies to the 

 present species, the type of which was from " E. Africa/' 



34. Hapalochrus viridicollis , sp. n. 



cJ . Moderately elongate, sparsely pubescent and fusco- 

 hirsute ; brilliant golden-green, the elytra cyaneous, the 

 antennae, legs, and under surface black or metallic. Head 

 and prothorax almost smooth, the latter broader than long, 

 abruptly, sinuously narrowed at the base; antennae rather 

 long and slender ; elytra gradually widened posteriorly, 

 rounded at the apex, densely, coarsely, confluently punctate; 

 anterior trochanters without tooth ; anterior tibiae mode- 

 rately dilated at the middle, deeply, obliquely excavate towards 

 the apex within, and abruptly emarginate and diaphanous 

 ou its inner edge before the tip ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, 2 (when viewed in profile) perceptibly prolonged 

 over the base of 3; intermediate tibiae long, somewhat 

 sinuate, greatly, subequally thickened from near the base to 

 the apex, convex externally, and with a short compressed 

 lobe at the inner apical angle. 



? . Elytra rounded at the sides, convex ; wings rudi- 

 mentary. 



Length 4-4£, breadth 2^ mm. (<??.) 



Hob. E. Africa, S.E. slopes of Kenya \_$~\ and Kikuyu 

 Escarpment [ ? ], alt. 6000-7400 ft. (S. A. Neave : ii., iii. 

 1911). 



One pair, precisely similar in colour and in their elytral 

 sculpture. A species separable from the allied forms with 

 subapterous females by the subequally incrassate, distinctly 

 sinuate intermediate tibiae of the male, and the confluent, 

 coarse sculpture of the elytra iu the two sexes. The anterior 

 trochanters of the $ want the tooth present in the same 

 sex of H. semicupreus and H. triangularis (No. 61) ; and the 

 anterior tibiae in this sex are not dilated into a tooth as in 

 H. amplipennis (No. 65) . The second anterior tarsal joint of 

 the £ appears to be simple till the tarsus is viewed in profile. 



