190 Mr. G. C. Clianiploii on various African 



head, the sides of the prothorax, and the elytra rugosely 

 ])uncturedj the c? ^vith pectinate auteiinsB, simple auteiior 

 tibiae, and slightly thickened, partly testaceous intermediate 

 tibise. The legs, as is often the case in tlie present genus, 

 vary in colour, the Nyasa ^J having the posterior pair 

 entirely, and the anterior and intermediate tibiae at their 

 apices (as in the Rhodesiau ? ), black. The Nyasa specimen 

 (cJ ) was received at the British Museum iu 1877. H. ramu- 

 losus seems to be allied to H. pectinatus. Pic (1911), types 

 ((J ? ) from Shirati, E. Africa ; but as the latter is described 

 as bluish-black in colour, and the narrow shape is not 

 mentioned, the two insects are scarcely likely to be 

 conspecific. 



13. Hapalochrus abijssinicus. 



Hapahchrus abyssinicus, Harold, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Beil. 1878, 



p. 219 (f^ 2). 

 Hapalochrous major, Pic, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. li. p. 385 (1907) (c5'). 



^ . Extremely like the same sex of H. elgonensis, but a 

 little larger and more robust, the head narrower than the 

 prothorax, the latter relatively broader, the colour still more 

 variable — golden-green, or in part cyaneous, the elytra rarely 

 brassy-cupreous, the basal joints of the antennae, the palpi 

 (except at the tip), and all the tibiae and the basal joint of 

 each tarsus (as well as the epistoma and labrum) wholly 

 testaceous in nearly all the specimens from N.W. Rhodesia, 

 the intermediate tibiae always in great part testaceous, the 

 sides of the abdomen rufescent; the puncturing of the 

 elytra finer and lienser; the epistoma similarly swollen and 

 almost smooth, but with the oblique lateral portions some- 

 what curved ; anterior tibiae slightly hollowed towards the 

 apex within ; intermediate femora curved ; intermediate 

 tibiae (PI. VIII. fig. 4) greatly swollen, convex and broad to 

 very near the apex above, deeply excavate within, angulatc 

 on their lower outer edge at about the middle, aud furnished 

 with a dentiform, matted tuft of hairs near the inner apical 

 angle. 



? . Head metallic to the anterior margin, the epistoma 

 flattened ; antennae (except at the base beneath) and legs 

 sometimes black or nn-tallic, tiie tibiae testaceous in the 

 Kasitu examples, the antenute much shorter than in (^ , 



Length 7-8i, breadth 3i-3| mm. ( cJ ? •) 



Hub. W.C. Africa, Moliro and Mpala (Duvivier ; type of 

 Pic: c?). Road from Lueua, Sassa, and Amadi, Congo 

 (Mus. Congo Beige: J); E. Afkica, Ndala Mission, 

 33^ 15' E., 4° 45' S. {Dr. (i. H. Carpenter-, xii. 1916— 



