184 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



5. Hapalochrus festivus, 



2 . Apalochrtis festivus, Er. Entomograpbieu, p. 52 (1840). 

 Hapalochrous festivus, Pic, Melanges exot,-entom. iv. p. 3 (Sept. 1912). 



^ . Antennse simply serrate, long ; anterior tibise excavate 

 towards the apex witliin, the apical portion thickened ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 stout, equal in length, 2 with a 

 black comb at the apex ; intermediate femora simple ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae (PI. VIIT, fig. 3) strongly incrassate, convex 

 al>ove, concave beneath, broadly, arcuately dilated towards 

 the ai)ex within, and then very deeply excavate between this 

 and the tip ; antennae and legs testaceous, the apices of the 

 former, and the tarsi in part, slightly infuscate, the posterior 

 femora black or metallic at the apex. 



Hab. W.Africa, Senegal {Mus. Brit.: cJ), Gaboon {Mus. 

 Oxon.: S)' 



The ^ of this species (if correctly named in the British 

 Museum) is apparently undescribed, the ? type from 

 Senegal having darker legs, as is often the case in the pre- 

 sent genus. An elongate insect^ with the head and prothorax 

 metallic green,' and the elytra testaceous, with a large patch 

 on the disc below the base, and a common broad subapical 

 fascia, green. 



Pic (M(^langes exot.-entom. xxx. p. 11, 1919) includes 

 H. festivus, Er., and its allies in a new subgenus, Cladapa- 

 lochrus ; but he has presumably incorrectly identified the J 

 of H. festivus, which has simply serrate (not flabellate) 

 antennae in that sex, as in H. longior. 



H. senegalensis, Pic (type (J, with flabellate antennse, 

 1912), and H. vhidipes, Pic (type ? , 1912), from W. Africa, 

 and H. degeoryisi, Pic (type $ , 1914), from the Congo, are 

 maculate forms that do not seem to be represented in the 

 collections before me. 



6. Hapalochrus sjostedti. 



HapalocJirus sjostedti, Bourg. in Sjostedt's Kilimandjaro- Meru 

 Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 132, t._3. fig. 15 (J) (1908) (nee Apalo- 

 chrus sjostedti, var. diversipes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. xxxi. 

 p. 10, Oct. 1919). 



Var. Hapalochrous simplicipes, Pic, Ann. See. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 193 

 (J) (1909). 



(J . Moderately elongate, shining, somewhat thickly 

 clothed with fine, semi-erect, whitish hairs ; cseruleous, 

 bluish-green, or violaceous, the antennse black, Mith the two 

 basal joints entirely or in part testaceous ; the anterior and 

 intermediate legs wholly or in })art (usually l)lack along their 



