and Asiatic Species of Hapalochrus. 189 



tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 5) strongly sinuate, compressed, dilated 

 to beyond the middle, the apical portion abruptly, obliquely 

 narrowed ; anterior tarsal joints ] and 2 slightly thickened, 

 2 extending over the base of 3 ; intermediate tibise simple, 

 as in ? . 



? . Antennae much shorter, not so stout, sharply serrate ; 

 elytra widened posteriorly ; legs wholly black. 

 "Length 3— t^, breadth 11-2 mm. [^ ? •) 



Hab. E. Africa, Mwengwa [i., ii. 1914] and Kashitu 

 [i. 1915] in N.W. Rhodesia {H. C. Dollman). 



A long series, the sexes in about equal numbers, all but 

 one from Mwengwa. A small, narroAv, shining black form, 

 the elytra with a faint bluish lustre, the S ^ith subparallel 

 elytra, strongly pectinate anleunse, sharply toothed anterior 

 femora, twisted and dilated anterior tibiae, and simple 

 intermediate tibiis. In the ^ of this insect the long tooth 

 on the front legs arises from near the base of the femora, 

 not from the trochanter as usual (when present) in the 

 present genus. 



12. Hapalochrus ramulosus, sp. n. 



(^ . Moderately elongate, narrow, subparallel, shining, 

 finely pubescent, with long, erect hairs intermixed ; brassy- 

 cupreous or golden-green, the antennae and femora black, 

 the basal joints of the former beneath, and the mouth-parts, 

 tibise, tarsi in great part, and ventral 'sutures testaceous. 

 Head densely, rugosely punctate ; antenna? long, strongly 

 pectinate. Prothorax transverse, rounded at the sides, closely, 

 finely punctate on the disc, the lateral portions rugose. 

 Elytra subparallel, flattened on the disc, densely, finely, 

 rugosely punctate. Anterior tibise simple ; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 rather elongate, slightly thickened, 2 pro- 

 duced above and nigro-pectinate at the tip ; intermediate 

 tibiffi gradually widened to about the middle and nairowing 

 thence to the apex. 



Var. Posterior tibise entirely, and the other tibise at the 

 apex, black. {S ■) 



? . Antennse short, serrate ; elytra widened posteriorly ; 

 tibise in their outer half, and the tarsi almost entirelv, black. 



Length 4-4i, breadth U-lf mm. (c? ? ) 



Hab. E. Africa, Kafue River, Namwala, N. Rhodesia 

 (H. C. Dollman: ^ ? : iii. 1913), Nyasa [Thelwall, in Mas. 

 Brit.: (J). 



One pair from Rhodesia (types) and a ^ from Nyasa. 

 A narrow, brassy-cupreous or golden-green form, with tlie 



