and Asiatic Species 0/ Hapaloclirus. 197 



about one-third from the base. The females of these closely 

 allied forms are scarcely distinguishable iiite^' se; some of 

 those from Screnje are very hairy and closely resemble the 

 same sex of H. abyssinicns, from which they are separable 

 by their smaller size, and shorter elytra and antennte. 



20. Hapalochrus spectabilis. 



? A2)nloc7inis spectabilis, Ancey, Nat. Sicil. ii. p. 116 (1883). 



cJ . Elongate, robust, shining ; bluish-green or cyaneous, 

 the elytra sometimes with a large violaceous patch on the 

 outer part of the disc, the mouth-parts, the outer angles of 

 the epistoma, the basal joints of the anteuuse beneath, the an- 

 terior and intermediate tibipe within, the intermediate femora 

 beneath, and the ventral segments in great part, testaceous ; 

 clothed with whitish pubscence intermixed with long, erect, 

 darker hairs. Head somewhat densely puuctulate and trans- 

 versely depressed anteriorly, smoother at the base ; antennae 

 long, rather slender, feebly serrate. Prothorax broader than 

 long, subrotuudate, very sparsely punctulate. Elytra long, 

 mucli widened posteriorly, flattened on the disc, densely, 

 rugulosely punctate, the apices bluntly rounded. Anterior 

 tibiai sinuate, excavate in their outer half within, the apical 

 portion (as seen from behind) abruptly widened for some 

 distance ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 ex- 

 tending over 3 ; intermediate tibise (PI. VIII. fig. 15) greatly 

 swollen, ccmvex and rounded externally, deeply excavate 

 within, the upper and lower edges of the cavity dilated 

 behind the middle into a prominent rounded lamella, the 

 upper one sinuato-plicate and also deeply excavate above. 



? . Antennie a little stouter and much shorter; prothorax 

 more transverse ; the head entirely, legs, and sometimes 

 the abdomen also, metallic. 



Length Gj^-()|, breadth 2^-3^ mm. (c? ? .) 



Hab. E. Afhica, Road to Kilossa, Usagara District, 

 alt. 1500 to 2500 ft. (S. A. Neave): 22-26. xii. 1910). 



Six males and five females, found by Dr. Neave, are pro- 

 visionally referred to this species, the types (? ? ? ) of which 

 were from Usagara. Ancey does not mention the sexual 

 characters and gives no measurements; he compares his 

 insect with H. festivus, Er., from W. Africa, and states that 

 it is one of the largest of the Malachiids. The colour is 

 variable, above and beneath. This is one of several species 

 with bi-lamellafe, swollen intermediate tibia3 in cJ , the tibiae 

 themselves being greatly swollen in the present insect. 



