312 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



(appearing subangular at about the middle) ; intermediate 

 tibiae slightly narrower, feebly sinuate. 



? . Elytra rounded or subacuminate at apex. 



Length 4-5£, breadth 2-2| mm. (£ $ .) 



Hab. E. Africa, Nandi Escarpment [type] and S. foot and 

 slopes of Mt. Elgon [(??], Mpanga Forest, Toro, Top of 

 Escarpment N. of Fort Portal, Jinja-Bnsia, and Yala River, 

 S. edge of Kakumba Forest, alt. 3800-5800 ft. (8. A. Neave : 

 (J ? ), Ngare Narok, Masai Reserve (Capt. A. 0. Luck- 

 man : ? ) . 



Six males and numerous females, the latter possibly not 

 all belonging here. H. confusus forms a sort of connecting- 

 link between H. armatus and H. amadiensis, these two insects 

 having toothed anterior trochanters in $ , and the latter 

 wanting the angular dilatation of the anterior tibia? in the 

 same sex. Some of the females slightly approach H. 

 caudatus, type ? , in the shape of the elytra, and females of 

 both of them were taken near Jinja. 



56. Hapalochrus caudatus, sp. n. 



? . Elongate, somewhat depressed, shining, sparsely 

 pubescent and also clothed with long, erect, fuscous hairs ; 

 brassy or bluish-green, the elytra in great part or wholly 

 cyaneous, the antennae (the testaceous lower surface of 

 joint 1 excepted) and legs black or metallic. Head and 

 prothorax almost smooth, the latter broader than long and 

 obliquely narrowed behind ; antennae rather short, sub- 

 serrate. Elytra long, widening to near the apex and then 

 rapidly narrowed and produced at the tip, sharply margined 

 laterally, flattened or depressed on the disc anteriorly ; 

 closely, somewhat coarsely punctate, the interspaces here 

 and there obliquely plicate. 



Length 5£-6|, breadth 2^ mm. 



Hab. E. and W. Central Africa, Mbale-Kumi Road, 

 south of Lake Salisbury, between Jinja and Busia, Siroko R., 

 near west foot of Mt. Elgon, and Banks of Nile near Kakindu, 

 alt. 3400-4000 ft. (S. A. Neave : viii. 1911), Kambove, 

 Katanga, alt. 4000-5000 ft. (S. A. Neave: iii. 1907 : type) ; 

 Belgian Congo, Kilom. 245 de Kindu (L. Burgeon, in Mus. 

 Congo Beige : 25. ii. 1912). 



Seven females, varying in the length of the caudiform apices 

 of the elytra. No male has been detected in the collections 

 before me that seems likely to belong to this species, the 

 first to be described with the elytra thus shaped. H. con- 

 fusus is perhaps the nearest ally ; but the ? of that insect 



