and Asiatic Species of Hapaloclirus. 191 



i. 1917: S), ^'^la River, S. edge of Kakumga Forest, 

 alt. 1800-5o00 ft. [J], Nvangori in N. Kaviroiido, alt. 

 4800 It. [S. A. Neave : v. 1911 : ^), Mlanje [i. 1913 : S] 

 and between Maugoclie and Chikala Boma, alt. 4000 ft. 

 [iii. 1910 : ? ], in Nyasaland {S. A. Neave), Kashitu and 

 Namwala in N.W. Rhodesia [H. C. Dolbnan : iii. 1913, xi., 

 xii. 1914, i. 1915 : cT ? ) ; Abyssinia (/y^j^s of Harold : r?' ? )• 

 The above description is taken from a series of fourteen 

 males and four females belonging to the British Museum. 

 The males agree with a specimen of H. major from the 

 Congo named by Pic, and they are separable from the same 

 sex of H. elgonensis by the form of the intermediate tibiae, 

 which are convex and broad to very near the apex above^ 

 and have the dentiform tuft of matted hairs placed near the 

 tip. The tibise and the basal joints of the antennae and 

 tarsi vary in colour, these portions of the legs being wholly 

 or in great part testaceous in the Rhodesian series received 

 from the late H. C. Dollman. The colour of the upper 

 surface, too, is variable, as stated by Harold, the elytra 

 being brassy cupreous in a pair from Nyasaland. Dr. Gestro 

 has lent me a ? from Abyssinia agreeing with Harold's 

 diagnosis and with the other specimens before me of the 

 same sex, and the only discrepancy between the description 

 of the Congo insect and the one from Abyssinia is that 

 Harold did not state that the yellowish anterior border of 

 the head (epistoma) was swollen. H. opidentus, Pering. 

 (1892), types, <^ ? , length 8-9 mm., from N. Ovampoland, 

 is an allied form with the head wholly green in c^"^. 



14. Hapalochrus e/r/onends, sp. n. 



(^ . Moderately elongate, lobnst, shining; cynneous, green, 

 01" golden-green, the pal])i and joints 2-10 of the antenufe 

 black, joints 1-3 of the latter testaceous beneath, 1 with a 

 green streak above, the ej)istoma and labrum, the excavate 

 inner portion of the intermediate tit)i?e (including the pencil 

 of hairs), and the abdomen at the sides and middle ante- 

 riuily, testaceous or lufescent ; clothed uith shaggy \vhitish 

 })ubescence intermixed with numerous long, fine, pallid, 

 erect hairs. Head nearly as wide as the prothorax, densely, 

 very finely punctate, and deeply, transversely depressed 

 between the eyes, smoother at the base, the epistoma swollen 

 and almost impiinctatc (tiie tumid space forming a 

 I — i-shaped fiavesceiit ridge betwci n the bases of the an- 

 tennte) ; autenntc subsenate, long, rather stout, joints 2-9 



* The t>pi> has recently beeu lent mo hv Dr. reringiiey for comparison. 



