320 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



67. Hapalochrus scabrosus, sp. n. 



$ . Elongate, opaque above, shining beneath, clothed, the 

 legs included, with very long, erect, blackish hairs ; bluish- 

 green, the dorsal surface of the abdomen (the last three 

 segments excepted) red, the antennse (the basal joint in part 

 excepted), palpi, and legs black or metallic. Head and pro- 

 thorax rather small, densely scabroso-punctulate, the latter 

 broader than long, abruptly, sinuately narrowed posteriorly, 

 and with shallow basal depression. Elytra long, somewhat 

 inflated, about as broad as the prothorax at the base, widened 

 to about the middle, the sides rounded from a little below 

 the base to the apex ; coarsely, confluently, rugosely punc- 

 tate, the raised interspaces dull, densely punctulate. Wings 

 abbreviated. 



Length 4f, breadth 2h mm. 



Hah. E. Africa, Mau, Masai Reserve (Capi. A. 0. Luck- 

 man : 7. i. 1914). 



One specimen, injured by pinning. Differs from the 

 other species with subapterous females, H. amplipennis, 

 mudcstus, semicupreus, &c, by the opaque upper surface, the 

 densely punctulate, scabrous head and prothorax, and the 

 very coarsely, confluently punctured elytra, the insect thus 

 having a different aspect from any of its allies. It is one of 

 several new Malacoderms discovered by Capt. Luckman in 

 Central Africa. 



Key to the Asiatic Species. 



6 6. 



25 (26). Antennae flabellate ; anterior tarsal joint 2 pro- 



longed above; body metallic. [Malayan 



region.] Species G8, 69. 



26 (25). Antennae serrate; anterior tarsal joint 2 pro- 



longed above. 

 27.(32). Elytra maculate. 



28 (29). Intermediate trochanters scapbiform (No. 70) 



or produced into a downwardly-directed lobe 

 (No. 71) ; intermediate tibiae slightly thick- 

 ened, sinuate within. [India, Burma, &c] . Species 70, 71. 



29 (28). Intermediate trochanters and tibiae simple. 



30 (31). Anterior trochanters toothed. [India.] Species 72. 



31 (30). Anterior trochanters unarmed. [Persia.] .... Species 73. 



32 (27). Elytra not maculate; body metallic ; anterior 



trochanters, with a short tooth ; intermediate 

 tibiaaincrassateandappendiculate. [Arabia.] Species 74. 



