318 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



prothorax rather small, almost smooth, the latter transverse, 

 sparsely puuctulate at the sides ; antennae feebly serrate ; 

 elytra gradually widened to beyond the middle, blunt 

 at the tip, densely, coarsely, rugosely punctate; anterior 

 trochanters without tooth; anterior femora subangulate 

 beneath; anterior tibise moderately thickened, sinuate, com- 

 pressed and obliquely excavate towards the apex ; anterior 

 tarsi simple, joint 2 short; intermediate tibiae greatly 

 thickened, short, convex and. rounded externally, excavate 

 at the apex beneath, and with a short compressed lobe at the 

 inner apical angle. 



Length 3^, breadth 1 T 9 mm. 



Hab. E. Africa, S.E. slopes of Kenya, alt. 6000-7000 ft. 

 (S. A. Neave: ii. 1911), Kabete (T. J. Anderson: 25. x. 

 1917). 



Two males, possibly referable to H. kenyensis, Pic, and 

 the only species before me from the Kenya region fitting 

 his very incomplete diagnosis. Smaller than H. semicupreus 

 (No. 33), the head and prothorax almost smooth, the elytra 

 a little more parallel, the S with simple anterior tarsi, and 

 wanting the tooth to the anterior trochanters and the angular 

 dilatation of the anterior tibia?. 



The ? , according to Pic, has posteriorly dilated elytra, 

 and it may be represented amongst the variable series of 

 specimens of that sex placed by me under H. amplipennis, 

 Harold. 



65. Hapalochrus amplipennis. 



5 . Hapalochrus amplipennis, Harold, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1878, p. 220; Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, p. 158. 



Hapalochrus (Paratinus) amplipennis, Bourg. in Sjbstedt's Ivili- 

 mandjaro-Mem Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 133 (tf $) (1908). 



<$ . Antennae long, rather slender, joints 3-9 elongate, 

 2 ( = 3 of Harold) longer than 3; anterior trochanters un- 

 armed ; anterior femora hollowed in their outer half beneath ; 

 anterior tibia? widened and compressed, angularly dilated or 

 dentate at about the middle, and deeply, obliquely excavate 

 immediately beyond this ; anterior tarsal joint 1 longer 

 than 2, 2 short, simple ; intermediate tibiae greatly thickened, 

 subtiiangular, convex and rounded externally, excavate 

 beneath, and furnished with a rather broad, short, compressed 

 lobe at the inner apical angle ; elytra narrow at the base, 

 rapidly widened to beyond the middle, and bluntly rounded 

 at the apex ; wings ample. 



$ . Elytra inflated and more rounded at the sides; wings 

 much reduced in size. 



