182 Mr. G. C. Chami)ion on various African 



Boliemaii and Bourgeois, and in one o£ those from Salisbury, 

 and another from Mkomasi before me, and broader and 

 asymmetrically bifurcate in the 28 other males seen from 

 Rhodesia, Lake Ngami, and Nyasaland. Some of the 

 Salisbury examples ( (^ ? ) have the metallic patches of the 

 elytra longitudinally confluent, and in two females from 

 the same locality the markings are altogether wanting. 

 H. erichsoni, Roth, from Abyssinia, a ? of which determined 

 by Dr. Gestro is before me, is probably synonymous with 

 H. sumttiosus, 



2. Hapalochrus deformipes. 



Ilapalochrus (Hapalochrojjs) deformipes, Bourg. in Sjcistedt'3 Kili- 

 manrljaro-Meru Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 132, t. 3. tig. 14 (J) 

 (1910). 



(J. Characters as in typical H. smntiiosus, Boh.: the 

 inner apical angle of the anterior tibiae produced into a long, 

 curved, outwardly-directed spine as in the mrdes described 

 by Boheman and Bourgeois. 



Hab. E. Africa, Banks of the RiA^er Ngare na nyuki, 

 jNIeru [Dr. Sjostedt) ; Eritrea {coU. Buurgeois). 



This insect, the unique type ( <^ ) of which has been kindly 

 forwarded for examination by Dr. SjJJstedt, is probably, as 

 suggested by Bourgeois, a form of H. sumtuosus with the 

 Tipper surface uniformly metallic. The ^J -characters are 

 precisely similar. The ? with a metallic prothorax, from 

 A mara, Eritrea, provisionally referred by the same author 

 to H. sumtuosus (p. 132, nota), affords a connecting-link 

 between the two foims, if it really belongs to this group ? 



3. Hapalochrus ionyior. 



J. Hapalochrotis louffiur, Pic, Le Naturaliste, xxv. p. 81 (1903); 

 M61anges exot.-eutom. iv. p. 2 (Sept. 1912). 



(^ , Epistoma testaceous, the oblique lateral portions almost 

 smooth and somewhat tumid ; antennas long, feebly sei'rate ; 

 anterior tibife excavate towards the apex within, the apical 

 portion somewhat thickened ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, subequal in length, 2 with a black comb at the 

 tip; intermediate femora (PI. VIII. fig. 9a) with a large, 

 oval, depressed, metallic area at the base beneath ; inter- 

 medirite tibite (PI. VIII. tigs, 9, 9a) enormously thickened, 

 rounded and convex externally, deei)ly excavate beneath, and 

 abruptly emargiuate before the apex within, the emarginatiou 



