308 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



Eleven examples, including four males. Smaller, less 

 elongate, and more shining than H. platycerus (No. 35), the 

 antennae less dilated, the head and prothorax shorter and 

 much smoother, the elytra coarsely, less densely punctate, 

 the intermediate tibiae of the male comparatively slender, and 

 abruptly, equally thickened from near the base, the anterior 

 trochanters toothed in the same sex. The more closely 

 punctured elytra, and the broader antennae and angulate 

 intermediate femora in $ , separate the present species from 

 H. hamatus. 



50. Hapalochrus furcatus, sp. n. 



J. Moderately elongate, shining, sparsely clothed with 

 fine pubescence intermixed with numerous long, erect, 

 blackish hairs; cyaneous, the head and prothorax some- 

 times brassy or green, the legs, palpi, and antennas black or 

 metallic. Head short, sparsely punctulate ; antennas mode- 

 rately long, rather stout, feebly serrate, joints 3-9 longer 

 than broad. Prothorax much broader than long, sparsely 

 punctulate, smooth across the middle of the disc. Elytra 

 gradually widened posteriorly, depressed on the disc below 

 the base, rather coarsely and not very closely punctate, the 

 puncturing becoming more diffuse anteriorly, the interspaces 

 here and there obliquely raised or plicate. Anterior tro- 

 chanters unarmed ; anterior tibiae with a rather stout 

 obliquely raised lobe at the middle above and compressed 

 thence to the apex ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 slightly 

 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intermediate tibiae mode- 

 rately thickened, sinuate, excavate at the middle and tip 

 beneath. 



$ . Antennae more slender and much shorter. 



Length 4-4£, breadth lf-2 mm. (<??.) 



Hub. E. Africa, Kashitu in N.W. Rhodesia (H. C. 

 Dollman : i. 1915). 



Three males and four females. Recognizable by the 

 obliquely lobed anterior tibiae and the simply sinuate, 

 moderately thickened intermediate tibiae of the male, the 

 elytra rather sparsely punctate and with somewhat plicate 

 interspaces, the upper surface very shining, wholly or in 

 great part cyaneous, the legs and antennae black or metallic. 

 The puncturing of the elytra is sparser and a little finer than 

 in H. rhodesianus, a character by which their respective 

 females may be separated. 



