and Asiatic Species q/Hapaloclirus. 261 



fig. 24) strongly incrassate, deeply excavate towards the apex 

 within, and furnished with a long, compressed, sinuous, 

 retractile appendage, their lower surface deeply sinuato- 

 excavate from the middle to the apex, the cavity fringed 

 with long Avhitish hairs on its outer edge, the inner apical 

 angle with a short tooth. 



? . Antennae shorter and more slender. 



Hub. S.E. AND E. Africa, Salisbury [type of Gorliam], 

 Chiriiida in Gazaland, and Frere and Estcourt in Natal 

 {G. A. K. Marshall: c? ? ), Livingstone {H. C. Dollman : 

 $ ), Kashitu and Mwengwa in N. Rhodesia [H. C. Dollman: 

 S ?), El Donyo eb Urro (C. /S'. Bettou: (^), Mlanje in 

 Nyasaland and Kakindu in Uganda {S. A. Neave : ? ). 



There are twenty examples of this species before me, 

 including ten males. Gorham does not mention the retrac- 

 tile long, curved, tibial appendage of the ($ , which cannot be 

 seen properly unless the tibia is viewed from beneath (see 

 figure). A small cyaneous or bluish-green form, with black 

 legs and antenna?, the elytral puncturing dense and fine. 

 Eresh examples are thickly clothed with Avhitish pubescence, 

 which is easily abraded. 



H. densatus and //. rugaticeps. Bourg., both from Kili- 

 mandjjiro or Meru, co-types, $ ? , of which are before me, 

 arc allied forms. 



40. Hapalochrus laciniostis, sp. n. 



(J. Rather short, shining, pubescent, with longer, soft, 

 semi-erect hairs intermixed ; green or brassy green, the 

 anlennse, palpi, and legs black. Plead short, sparsely punctu- 

 late, slightly depressed in front; antenna? moderately long, 

 rather stout, serrate, joints 3-9 about as long as broad. 

 Prothorax transverse, a little wider than the head, sparsely 

 punctured, almost smooth on the middle of the disc. Elytra 

 moderately long, widened posteriorly, densely, very finely 

 punctate. Anterior femora subanj;ulate near the base 

 beneath ; anterior tibiae thickened, obliquely compressed 

 and deei)ly emarginate near the tip ; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 3 ; intenncdiaie tibiie 

 (PI. Vlll. fig. 25) very stoiit, broadly widened, sinuate within, 

 obliquely, deeply excavate towaids the apex beneath, and 

 fui'uished with a long, slender, compressed, sinuate, retra(;tile 

 appendage, the inner a[)ical angle with a long tooth, the 

 inner edge only of the cavity fringed with long hairs. 



? . Antennae shorter and not so stout, the legs slender. 



Length 3^-3f, breadth U-lg mm. ( (^ ^ .) 



