322 Mr. G. C. Champion 'on various African 



$ . Antennse shorter, serrate. 



Length 3i-4|, breadth lf-2£ mm. (<??.) 



i/a6. Tonkin, Dap-Can (type of Pic) ; Penang (Mus. 

 Brit.); ? India {Mus. Brit.). 



Five males and one female, apparently referable to 

 H. mirabilis, are contained in the British Museum. These 

 specimens are all from the Bowring collection, received in 

 1863, but the locality "India" requires confirmation. 

 An elongate, narrow, very shining, cinereo-pubescent, bluish- 

 black form, with cyaneous, densely, very finely punctate 

 elytra; the prothorax almost smooth, transversely excavate 

 in the middle at the base, and obsoletely canaliculate 

 anteriorly ; the antenna? and legs black. 



70. Hapalockrus fasciatus. 



Cantharisfasciata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. i. 1, p. 218 (1792). 



Apalochrus Icetus, Erichs. Entomographien, p. 51 (1840) (part.); 



Bourg. Compt. Rend. Soc, Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. cxl (1891). 

 Apalochrus fasciatus, Gorb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix. p. 317 (1895). 

 Apalochrus depictus, Gorb. loc. cit. (c? $ )• 



<$ . Anterior femora incrassate; anterior tibise slightly 

 hollowed towards the apex within ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 stout, 1 transverse, 2 elongated and extending over 

 3 to its apex, nigro-pectinate at the tip; intermediate tro- 

 chanters (PI. VIII. fig. 32) elongated, boat-shaped, pointed 

 at the tip ; intermediate femora stout, strongly incrassate 

 towards the base ; intermediate tibise moderately thickened, 

 deeply excavate towards the apex within, the trochanter 

 being received into the cavity when the tibije are drawn 

 inward. 



Hob. India, Nepal, Bengal, Lohadngga, Berkampur, &c. 

 (Mus. Brit.), Sitapur in W. Almora (H. G. Champion), 

 Calcutta (type of depictus), Kanara, Belgaum (Id. E. 

 Andreives), Kuubir Nowaloti, Tetara, Kurseong (sec. Bour- 

 geois) . 



Gorham correctly stated that two species had been con- 

 fused by Erichson under the name H. fasciatus, but he 

 omitted to note that the ^-characters of the insects he 

 called H. fasciatus and H. depictus were precisely similar. 

 The latter was based upon specimens (^ $) with the 

 cyaneous elytral marking much reduced in size, those from 

 Belgaum and Kanara determined by him as H. fasciatus 

 having them much more extended. This character, and the 

 development of the prothoracic vitta, which is sometimes 

 reduced to a small spot (but never wholly absent as in 

 H. Icetus, ¥.), proves to be of no importance when a long 



