258 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



the transverse grooves shallow. Elytra rather elongate, 

 widened posteriorly, densely, rugosely punctured. Anterior 

 femora thickened; anterior tibia? stout, obliquely compressed, 

 excavate, and deeply emargiuate before the apex; anterior 

 tarsal joints 1 and 2 stout, 2 extending over 3; inter- 

 mediate tibia? greatly swollen, broadly widened from near 

 the base to the apex, slightly sinuate towards the tip within, 

 deeply, sinuatelv excavate in their outer half beneath, and 

 furnished beyond the middle with a rather broad, testaceous, 

 compressed appendage, the excavated portion bearing an 

 inwardly-curved tuft of matted yellowish hairs below the 

 outer angle. 



? . Antenna? a little more slender. 

 Length 4f-5±, breadth 2-2£ mm. (g ? .) 

 Hub. S. Africa, Howick, Natal (J. P. Cregoe). 

 Sixteen specimens, the sexes in equal numbers. Larger, 

 duller, and less shining than H. appendicifer, Pic, the head, 

 the sides of the pro thorax, and the elytra densely, roughly 

 punctate, the ^-characters different, the appendage of the 

 middle tibia? much shorter and broader, the excavated infe- 

 rior portion bearing a matted tuft of curled hairs below the 

 outer apical angle. This structure cannot be seen properly 

 unless the insect is viewed from beneath. Less elongate 

 than H. p/ati/cerus, from Rhodesia, which has a similarly 

 rugose head, the antennae much less dilated, the apices of 

 the intermediate tibiae differently formed. Larger than 

 H. rugaticeps, Bourg., from Meru, and with a still more 

 rugosely puctured head and prothorax, the elytra less 

 parallel, the antenna? ( ? ) stouter. 



37. Hapalochrus fissipes, sp. n. 



J 1 . Moderately elongate, narrow, very shining, finely 

 pubescent, and aho thickly set with long erect hairs ; 

 cyaneous or bluish-green, the basal four joints of the 

 antennae beneath or in part, the anterior tibia? (except at 

 the base and apex), the intermediate femora at the base and 

 the accompanying trochanters, and the abdomen (a series of 

 dark spots along each side excepted), testaceous. Head and 

 prothorax very sparsely punctulate, the latter smooth on 

 the disc and nearly as long as broad; antenna? moderately 

 long, joints 5-9 obliquely dilatate, C-9 strongly transverse. 

 Elytra much widened posteriorly, rounded at the tip, closely, 

 rather coarsely punctate, smoother at the base. Anterior 

 tibia? broadly lobed at about the middle, and excavate 

 beneath this, the apical portion narrow and compressed ; 



