a?id Asiatic Species 0/ Ilapaloclirus. 263 



lower surface of the basal joints excepted) and legs black. 

 Head and prothorax rather small, sparsely, raiuutely punc- 

 tate, the latter transverse, rounded at the sides, and almost 

 smooth on the middle of the disc. Elytra rather long, 

 rapidly widening to near the apex, bluntly rounded at the 

 tip, transversely depressed on the disc below the base ; 

 densely, finely, rugulosely punctate. 



Length 8|, breadth 2 mm. 



Hub. Abyssinia [Mas. Brit.). 



One female. This insect seems to be nearest allied 

 to //. vias/nmus, Gorh., and H. densatus, Bourg., and it is 

 separable from the corresponding sex of those species by 

 having the elytra much more widened posteriorly, the punc- 

 turing of the latter being very fine and dense. Three species 

 only of the genus have been seen by me from Abyssinia, each 

 represented by a single example. The one here described 

 is so distinct that there can be little risk in naming it from 

 tiie female sex. 



43. Hapaloclirus janthinus. 



2 . HajHilochrus janthinus, Fairui. Auu. Soc. Eut. Fr. (0) ili. p. 157 



(1887). 

 llupalochius {Parutinus) janthinus, Bourg. iu Sjostedt's Kiliiuaudjaro- 



Meru Exped. i. Abt. 7, No. 10, p. 134 (cT 2) (1908). 

 5. Hupulochrous t/oossensi, Pic, Ann. Soc. Eut. Belg. lii. p. 311 



(1908j. 



Elongate, rather convex, shining, somewhat thickly clothed 

 with long, semi-erect, blackish hairs ; bluish-green or cyaneo- 

 violaceous, or, more rarely, tencous, purplish, or obscure 

 cupreous, the antennae aiul legs black or metallic, the abdo- 

 men usually in part jed, the intermediate femora sometimes 

 with a reddish spot at the base in J . Head sparsely, finely 

 punctate; antennse ( cj ) l^'ig, i'l some specimens broad, 

 serrate, and tai)ering towards the ti[), in others less thickened, 

 subserratc, and with joints 2-1(3 almost equal in width, 

 (?) shorter and more slender. Prothorax transverse, 

 broader tiiau the head, smooth on tlie disc, sparsely punc- 

 tulate at the sides and apex. Elytra long, rather convex^ 

 gradually widening to beyond the middle, rounded at tiie 

 apex, coarsely, closely, confusedly punctured. 



cJ . Anterior trochanters unarmed ; anterior tibiie rather 

 stout, tiiickeued at the middle, and then strongly, obliquely 

 compressed; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 subequal iu' 

 length, 2 narrowly extended over 3 ; intermediate tibue very 

 stout, slightly rounded externally, I'oveate and deeply exca- 

 vate iu their outer half beneath, and with a short compressed 



