and Asiatic Species of Hapalocliius. 181 



Hapalochrous mmptuosus (cT), and vara. ($) nyassensis and sig- 



naticoUis, Pic, M(5langes exot.-entom. iv. pp. 2, 3 (Sept. 1912). 

 $. Apalochrus swtiptuosus, var. reducttis, Pic, op. cit. xxxi. p. 10 



(Oct. 1919). 

 Var.? Apalochrus ericJisonii, Roth in Wiegiuann's Arcbiv, 1851, 1, 



p. 120(cf$). 

 Hapalochrus erichsonii, Gestro, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xxxv. p. 3o.3 ( 2 ) 



(1895). 



(J. Antennae long, flabellate from joint 4 onward; anterior 

 femora stout; anterior tibire rapidly widening outward, 

 slightly sinuate within, the inner apical angle produced into a 

 long, curved, pointed spine, which extends outward beneath 

 the first tarsal joint ; anterior tarsal joint 1 elongate, stout, 

 compressed, ciliate externally, 2 much shorter, broadly oval, 

 convex above, concave beneath, extending over joint 3 

 to its apex, nigro-pectinate at the tip (PI. YIII. fig. 7) ; 

 intermediate femora stout, feebly curved ; intermediate tibiae 

 (PL VIII. fig 7 b) slender at the base, enormously dilated, 

 curved, and convex towards the apex above, deeply exca- 

 vate and pilose towards the apex within and beneath. 



c? . Var. 1. Anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 7) shorter 

 and more swollen at the apex, the inner apical angle produced 

 into a long, curved spine (as in the type of H. sumtuosus), the 

 outer apical angle also produced into a short, curved, 

 downwardly-directed tooth. 



J. Var. 2. Anterior tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 7a) with tlie 

 inner a])ical angle produced into a rather broad, compressed, 

 curved lobe, which extends outward beneath the first tarsal 

 joint and bears a long inwardly-curved hook towards the 

 apex externally (the lobe thus appearing asymmetrically 

 bifurcate at the tip). 



Var. ? , Elytra entirely fulvous. 



Hab. E. Africa, Caffraria (types of Boheman : (5* ? ), 

 Transvaal and Ovampoland (sec. Peringuey), Mashonaland 

 [H. B. Dabble), Waterburg (W. L. Distant), Salisbury 

 (G. A. K. Marshall: S vars. 1, 2, ? ), Mwengwa in N.W. 

 Rhodesia (H. C. Dollman), Chiromo in Nvasaland {R. C. 

 Wood), Kyasaland S.W. of Lake Chilwa' {S. A. Neave), 

 Mkomasi, Tanganyika Territory (A. Loveridye, in Mus. 

 Oxon. : c?)> Lake Ngami [Mus. Brit., Mus. Oxon.), Kili- 

 mandjaro [Dr. Sjostedt), Arussi Galla in Abyssinia (Botteyo, 

 in Mus. Genoa : ? ), Eritrea (sec. Bourgeois). 



A common insect in E. Africa, but not extending into the 

 Congo Region. The anterior tibiae of the J exhibit three 

 variations in the development of the very long curved 

 apical spur, this being spiniform in the males described by 



