and Asiatic Species 0/ Hapalochrus. 263 



lower surface of the basal joints excepted) and legs black. 

 Head and prothorax rather small, sparsely, minutely punc- 

 tate, the latter transverse, rounded at the sides, and almost 

 smooth on the middle of the disc. Elytra rather long, 

 rapidly widening to near the apex, bluntly rounded at the 

 tip, transversely depressed on the disc below the base ; 

 densely, finely, rugulosely punctate. 



Length 8|, breadth 2 mm. 



Hab. Abyssinia {Mas. Brit.'). 



One female. This insect seems to be nearest allied 

 to H. mashunus, Gorh., and H. densatus, Bourg., and it is 

 separable from the corresponding sex of those species by 

 having the elytra much more widened posteriorly, the punc- 

 turing of the latter being very fine and dense. Three species 

 only of the genus have been seen by me from Abyssinia, each 

 represented by a single example. The one here described 

 is so distinct that there can be little risk in naming it from 

 the female sex. 



43. Hapalochrus janthinus. 



§. Hapalochrus janthinus, Fairin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (G) iii. p. 157 



(1887). 

 Hapalochrus (Paratinus) janthinus, Bourg. in Sjostedt's Kiliinandjaro- 



Meru Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 134 (rf $)'(1908). 

 §. Hapalochrous goossensi, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. 13elg. Iii. p. 311 



(1908J. 



Elongate, rather convex, shining, somewhat thickly clothed; 

 with long, semi-erect, blackish hairs ; bluish-greeu or cyaneo- 

 violaceous, or, more rarely, aeneous, purplish, or obscure 

 cupreous, the antennae and legs black or metallic, the abdo- 

 men usually in part red, the intermediate femora sometimes 

 with a reddish spot at the base in £ . Head sparsely, finely 

 punctate ; antennae ( S ) 1 0,) &) i n some specimens broad, 

 serrate, and tapering towards the tip, in others less thickened, 

 subserrate, and with joints 2-10 almost equal in width, 

 ( $ ) shorter and more slender. Prothorax transverse, 

 broader than the head, smooth on the disc, sparsely punc- 

 tulate at the sides and apex. Elytra long, rather convex^ 

 gradually widening to beyond the middle, rounded at the 

 apex, coarsely, closely, confusedly punctured. 



$ . Anterior trochanters unarmed ; anterior tibiae rather 

 stout, thickened at the middle, and then strongly, obliquely 

 compressed ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 suhequal in 

 length, 2 narrowly extended over 3 ; intermediate tibite very 

 stout, slightly rounded externally, foveate and deeply exca- 

 vate in their outer half beneath, and with a short compressed 



