194 Mr. G. C. Cliampion oii various African 



aiitenuse very long, feebly serrate. Prothorax transverse, 

 rounded at the sides, sparsely, finely punctate, smoother on 

 the disc. Elytra widened posteriorly, densely, rather 

 coarsely, rugulosely punctate, the puncturing coarser and 

 more diffuse at the base, the apices rounded. Anterior 

 tibiae hollowed in their outer half within (appearing 

 tliickened at the tip); anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, 2 extending over 3, nigro-pectinate at tip; inter- 

 mediate tibise(Pl. VIII. fig. 11) greatly swollen, convex and 

 rounded externally, furnished with a broad, thin, rounded 

 fiavo-ciliate lamella on their inner face beyond the middle, 

 and deeply excavate above and beneath this, the lower, 

 outer edge (as seen from beneath) biangulate. 



? . Head metallic to the anterior margin ; antennae much 

 shorter; legs wholly metallic. 



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



Hab. E. AND E. Central Afkica : Tabora {type of Fair- 

 maire), Mitiana — Entebbe, Yala River, S. edge of Kakumga 

 Forest, S. foot and slopes of Mt. Elgon, Koki Country, 

 S.W. Buddu, N. of L. Isolt, valley of Kafu River, Unyoro, 

 Ilala, Mai'amas District, Upper Kuja in S. Kavirondo, alt. 

 3i00-5800 ft. (S. A. Neave), Entebbe, Mwera (C. C. 

 Gowdey) ; W. Central Africa, Bondaye, Babua, Kongola 

 Kunde, Kamerun [Mus. Brit.) ; Congo da Lambra, Amadi, 

 Kisantu, Kibonibo, Belgian Congo (^Mus. Congo Beige). 



This insect seems to. be referable to' H. malachioides^ 

 Fairm., the type of which ( ? ) was from Tabora, and there 

 are specimens of it (c? ?) i^ the Congo Museum thus 

 identified by Pic, as well as others named by him H. conradti. 

 The Congo Museum also possesses a series of about 150 

 examples of it, including 70 males, taken by Mr. R. Mayne 

 in 1913 at Congo da Lemba, and there are many others 

 from Uganda, Kamerun, he, in the British Museum. The 

 ^ of the present insect is recognisable by the very long 

 antennse, the flavescent, flattened epistoma, and the ciliate 

 fiavo-unilamellate intermediate tibiae, the tibise themselves 

 being greatly swollen. The ? ? of M. malachioides and its 

 allies, all of which have the head metallic to the anterior 

 margin, are scarcely distinguishable one from another. 



17. Hapalochrus uncinatus, sp. n. 



(J . Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining ; green, the 

 anterior portion of the head and the sides of the prothorax 

 golden-green, the elytra tinged with cyaneous at the sides 

 and base, the labrum, the outer angles of the epistoma, the 



