264 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



lobe at the inner apical angle, and a curved, dentiform pencil 

 of hairs beneath the outer angle. 



Length 5-7, breadth 2^-3^ mm. ( <$ $ .) 



Hab. E. and W. Central Africa, Usagara {type of Fair - 

 maire : ? ), Kibonoto, Kilimandjaro, Meru {Dr. Sjostedl), 

 Ruwenzori, alt. 5300 ft. {Scott-Elliot^), Uganda generally, 

 up to 5000 ft. {S. A. Neave, C. C. Gowdey), S. Masai 

 Reserve {T. J. Anderson), Nandi Plateau, W. slopes of 

 Kenya on Meru-Nyeri Road up to 6,200 ft., Kambove, 

 Katanga, and Serenje District in N.E. Rhodesia {S. A. Neave), 

 Mogorr River (Capt. A. O. Luckman), Kashitu in N.W. 

 Rhodesia {H. C. Dollman) ; Kisantu (type of H. goossensi, 

 Pic, ? ), Congo da Lemba, Kundi, Kambove-Rnwe, Etshushu, 

 Wombali, Kasenga, and Sankisia, Belgian Congo {Mus. 

 Congo Beige), Madona {Dr. S. Neave) ; Angola {Mus. 

 Brit.: S ?)• 



The Congo Museum possesses a series of upwards of 

 2200 examples of this species (mostly from Congo da Lemba), 

 of which about 130 are males, and in the British Museum 

 there are at least 200 more, including twenty males. The 

 types of H. goossensi, Pic, ?,lent me by M. Schouteden, 

 agree perfectly with H. janthinus, Fairm., ¥ , as identified 

 by Bourgeois. The £ sometimes has a reddish mark at the 

 base of the intermediate femora; but the second joint of 

 the anterior tarsi is not simple in this sex, as he supposed, 

 the claw-like upper prolongation being conspicuous in one 

 of his Kilimandjaro males before me. In the 38 specimens 

 (34 ?, 4 c?) captured at Kashitu in Rhodesia by the late 

 H. C. Dollman, the antennae of the males are a little less 

 dilated than usual, one, indeed, having these organs quite 

 slender. H.formosus, Harold (1879J, type ? , from Angola, 

 must be very closely related to the present insect ; but as 

 the antennas are stated to have the basal joint reddish 

 beneath, the identification is doubtful. Tlje $ of the present 

 species is very like a Haltica of the same regions, and it 

 might easily be mistaken for a member of that genus. 



44. Hapalochrus foveiger, sp. n. 



$ . Moderately elongate, rather convex, shining, thickly 

 clothed with rather long, semi-erect, blackish hairs; cyaneous 

 or violaceous, the head and the disc of the prothorax some- 

 times brassy-black, the abdomen in part red, the antennas, 

 palpi, and legs wholly black or metallic ; head and prothorax 

 sparsely punctured, the latter smooth on the disc ; elytra 

 coarsely, closely, uniformly punctate, the punctures deep and 



