192 Mr. G. C. Champion on various African 



elongate. Prothorax much broader than long, very sparsely 

 punetulate, deeply, transversely grooved before the base. 

 Elytra long, flattened on the disc anteriorly, gradually 

 widened posteriorly, bluntly rounded at the apex ; densely, 

 finely, rugosely punctate. Anterior tibiae rather slender, 

 hollowed towards the apex within ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intermediate femora 

 concave beneath, slightly curved ; intermediate tibiae 

 (PI. VIII. fig. 8) greatly swollen, convex above, rounded 

 externally, deeply excavate and sinuate within, and furnished 

 with a matted, dentiform tuft of hairs at a little behind the 

 middle. 



? . Head metallic to the anterior margin, the epistoma 

 flattened, the transverse depression shallower ; antennae 

 much shorter ; legs wholly metallic. 



Length 6-7, breadth 2|-3 mm. (c? ? .) 



Hab. E. Africa, S. foot and slopes of Mt. Elgon, alt. 

 5100-5800 ft. [S ? : 8-13. vi. 1913], and Siroko River, 

 near W. foot of Mt. Elgon, alt. 3600 ft., in Uganda 

 [ ? : 12-14. viii. 1911] {S. A. Neave). 



Thirty-one specimens, three only of which are males. 

 Recognizable in this sex by the tumid, flavescent epistoma, 

 and the greatly swollen curved intermediate tibise, which 

 bear a matted dentiform tuft of testaceous hairs near the 

 middle. A close ally of H. abyssinicus and H. const7-ictipes, 

 the only other allied forms known to me with a flavescent 

 tumid epistoma in J* , this character separating H. elgonensis 

 from the same sex of H. malachioides, the epistoma in the 

 latter being flattened. 



15. Hapalochrus constrictipes, sp. n. 



^ . Elongate, robust, shining ; green, the head, pro- 

 thorax, and base and sides of the elytra tinged with 

 cyaneous, the epistoma, labrum, basal joint of antennse, 

 palpi (except at tip), anterior and intermediate femora 

 (except a streak on the anterior pair above) and tibias, 

 posterior femora at the base and the tibiae in .part, and the 

 ventral surface (except down the middle), testaceous; 

 thickly clothed with shaggy whitish pubescence intermixed 

 with long, erect, pallid hairs. Head narrower than the 

 prothorax, densely, very finely punctate and transversely 

 depressed between the eyes, smoother at the base, the 

 epistoma greatly swollen and almost impunctate (the lateral 

 portions forming a prominent, oblique, flavescent ridge on 



