and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 261 



fig. 24) strongly incrassate, deeply excavate towards the apex 

 within, and furnished with a long, compressed, sinuous, 

 retractile appendage, their lower surface deeply sinuato- 

 excavate from the middle to the apex, the cavity fringed 

 with long whitish hairs on its outer edge, the inner apical 

 angle with a short tooth. 



? . Antennas shorter and more slender. 



Hob. S.E. and E. Africa, Salisbury [type of Gorliam], 

 Chirinda in Gazaland, and Frere and Estcourt in Natal 

 (G. A. K. Marshall: $ $ ), Livingstone (H. C. Dollman : 

 $ ), Kashitu and Mwengwa in N. Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman: 

 j ?), El Douyo eb Urro (C. S. Betton: <J), Mlanje in 

 Nyasaland and Kakindu in Uganda (S. A. Neave : ? ). 



There are twenty examples of this species before me, 

 including ten males. Gorham does not mention the retrac- 

 tile long, curved, tibial appendage of the <J , which cannot be 

 seen properly unless the tibia is viewed from beneath (see 

 figure). A small cyaneous or bluish-green form, with black 

 legs and antenna?, the elytral puncturing dense and fine. 

 Fresh examples are thickly clothed with whitish pubescence, 

 which is easily abraded. 



H. densatus and 11, rugaticeps. Bourg., both from Kili- 

 mandjaro or Meru, co-types, ? ? , of which are before me, 

 are allied forms. 



40. Hapalochrus laciniosus, sp. n. 



cJ . Rather short, shining, pubescent, with longer, soft, 

 semi-erect hairs intermixed ; green or brassy green, the 

 antennas, palpi, and legs black. Head short, sparsely punctu- 

 late, slightly depressed in front ; antennas moderately long, 

 rather stout, serrate, joints 3-9 about as long as broad. 

 Prothorax transverse, a little wider than the head, sparsely 

 punctured, almost smooth on the middle of the disc. Elytra 

 moderately long, widened posteriorly, densely, very finely 

 punctate. Anterior femora subangulate near the base 

 beneath ; anterior tibiae thickened, obliquely compressed 

 and deeply emarginate near the tip ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intermediate tibiae 

 (PI. VIII. fig. 25) very stout, broadly widened, sinuate within, 

 obliquely, deeply excavate towards the apex beneath, and 

 furnished with a long, slender, compressed, sinuate, retractile 

 appendage, the inner apical angle with a long tooth, the 

 inner edge only of the cavity fringed with long hairs. 



? . Antennae shorter and not so stout, the legs slender. 

 Length 3$-3f, breadth 1^-lfmm. (£ ? .) 



