198 Ml'. G. C Champion on various Afrlean 



21. Haiialochrus nitens. 



Apalochnis nitens, Gorb. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (7) y. p. 79 (J $) 

 (1900j. 



(J. Antenuse elongate, rather slender, strongly serrate 

 from joint 4 onward ; anterior tibise slightly hollowed 

 towards the apex within, the apical portion rather broad ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 3 elongated, 2 thickened and 

 nigro-pectinate at the apex ; intermediate tibise (PL Ylll. 

 fig. 16) greatly swollen, curved, convex externally, deeply 

 excavate \Aithin, the upper and lower edges of the cavity 

 strongly, subequally, arcuato-Iamellate at about the middle, 

 the upper lamella sinuato-plicate and also deeph' excavate. 



. ? . Antennae a little stouter, feebly serrate, short ; legs 

 usually much darker, the anterior and intermediate pairs 

 (the bases of the tarsi included) often wholly or in great 

 part testaceous in c? • 



Length (head extended) 5^-6, breadth 2^-2^ mm. {^ ^ .) 



Hub. E. AND S.E. AriiiCA : Mwengwa in N.W. Rhodesia 

 {H. C. DoUman: i., ii. 1914) ; Fort Jameson District, alt. 

 4000 ft. in N.E. Rhodesia [S. A. Neave, in Mus. Oxon. : 

 viii. 1908) ; Bulawayo [xii. 1903] and Salisbury [i. 1899] 

 {G.A. K. Marshall). 



The long series, ,$ ? , obtained by Dr. Marshall and the 

 late H. C. Dollman, the males agreeing perfectly in their 

 structure, vary greatly in the colour in the body (golden- 

 green, green, cyaneous or violaceous, some examples having 

 the head and prothorax green and the elytia cyaneous) and 

 legs, many of the Rhodesinn females (but not all of them) 

 having these limbs darker than those from the other 

 localities. Gorhani biielly described the sexes, but his 

 definition "erosis" of the (^-intermediate tibise gives 

 one no idea of the bilamellate structure. Some of the 

 speciniens are labelled as having been found on grass-seeds. 

 Compared with H. bilamellutus and other allied forms with 

 somewhat similar c^ -characters, H. nitens is a relatively 

 . narrower, smaller insect. A ? from Kambove, Katanga 

 [S. A. Neave), may also belong here. 



22. Hupalochrus clavicornis, s^j. n. 



(J . Moderately elongate, cyaneous, the head and prothorax 

 bluish-green in one example, the basal joint of the antennae 

 beneath, a space at the middle of the anterior tibise, and the 

 base of the intermediate femora narrowly, testaceous, the rest 

 of the antennae and legs (the claws excepted) black or metallic, 



