310 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



trochanters with a short blunt tooth • anterior tibiae simply 

 sinuate, without median dilatation ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 thickened, 2 projecting over 3 ; intermediate femora 

 hollowed before the apex beneath, appearing subangulate at 

 the middle ; intermediate tibiae slightly sinuate and feebly, 

 abruptly incrassate from near the base to the tip, the 

 lower surface foveate at the middle and hollowed at the apex. 



Length 5, breadth 2} mm. 



Hah. W. Central Africa, Amadi, Belgian Congo (P. van 

 den Plus : iv. 1913). 



One male, in the Congo Museum. More elongate than 

 H. irregularis ( $ ), the antennae much shorter, the pro- 

 thorax less transverse, the elytra more coarsely punctured, 

 the anterior tibiae simply sinuate, the intermediate tibiae 

 feebly, abruptly widened from near the base, as in the same 

 sex of the Rhodesian H. hamalus. Compared with the last- 

 named insect, the $ of the present species may be distin- 

 guished by the stouter anterior tibiae, the subserrate antennas, 

 and the closely, coarsely punctate elytra. The simply sinuate 

 anterior tibiae, the subangulate intermediate femora, and the 

 more coarsely punctured elytra separate H. amadiensis from 

 H. confusus, <$ , an insect with similar intermediate tibiae. 



53. JJapalochrus mollis, sp. n. 



<$ . Elongate, shining, thickly clothed with long, fine, 

 erect hairs ; bluish-green or green, the head and prothorax 

 sometimes brassy or the elytra cyaneous, the antennae, palpi, 

 and legs wholly black or metallic ; head and prothorax 

 sparsely punctulate, the latter smooth on the disc. Antennae 

 stout, serrate, tapering towards the tip, joints 6-9 strongly 

 transverse. Prothorax transverse, small, obliquely narrowed 

 behind. Elytra long, widened posteriorly, uneven, depressed 

 on the disc below the base ; closely, finely punctate, the 

 interspaces here and there obliquely plicate. Anterior tibiae 

 thickened at a little beyond the middle and hollowed thence 

 to the apex ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 slightly 

 thickened, subequal in length, 2 extending over 3 ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae rather broadly, abruptly, and equally widened 

 from near the base to the apex, distinctly sinuate extei'nally, 

 truncate at the tip. 



$ . Antennae shorter and not so stout, feebly serrate. 



Length 3^-4, breadth 1^-2 mm. (c? ? .) 



Hab. E. and W. Central Africa, S. of Lake George 

 [type J and Plains N.E. of Lake Edward in Uganda, Valley 

 of Upper Nzoia River, N. Kavirondo, S. foot and slopes of 



