ami Asiatic species of l\i\])3i\oc\nus. 317 



the legs, palpi, and antennse black or metallic, the inter- 

 mediate troclianters in one si)ecinieii, and the ventral sutures, 

 reddish. Head sparsely punctate; antennse rather stout, 

 long. Prothorax. transverse, wider than the head, smooth 

 on the disc, sparsely punctured at the sides. Elytra 

 long, widened posteriorly, very coarsely, somewhat diffusely 

 punctate, the puncturing becoming more crowded at the 

 sides and finer at the base. Anterior tibiae rather stout, 

 thickened at the middle, and then strongly, obliquely 

 compressed ; anterior tarsal j ints 1 and 2 subcqual in 

 lengtli, slightly thickened, .2 simple ; intermediate tibi?e 

 greatly thickened, convex externally, excavate at the middle 

 and apex beneath, and with a short compressed lobe at the 

 inner apical angle. 



Var. kameruaus, n. The elytra much more closely and 

 finely' punctured, the vestiture longer and more abundant. 



[c??.] 



Length 5-6, breadth 2i-2^ mm. (c? ? •) 



Hab. E. AND E. Central Africa, Road to Kilossa, Usagara 

 District, alt. 1500-2500 ft. [type] {S. A. Neave : 22-26. 

 xii. 1910: (^ ? ), Serenje District in N.E. Rhodesia, alt. 

 4500 h.{S. A. Neave: 16. xii. 1907: c? ) ; W. Central Africa, 

 BabuaBondaye,Kamerun (6. V. 1914: Mus. Brit.: ^ ?,var.). 



Extremely like the variable and abundant 11. janthinus, 

 Fairm. {goossensi, Pic), and possibly confused with that 

 species by Bourgeois, wanting the claw-like superior pro- 

 longation of the second anterior tarsal joint in ^ , which is 

 very distinct (when the tarsus is viewed in profile) in a 

 Kilimandjaro example named by him and lent me by 

 Dr. Sjostedt. The four specimens selected as types (3 c? (^ 

 and 1 ? ) have the elytral punctuation coarse, and sparse on 

 the disc, while the var. kamerunus (5 J" c? ) has it closer 

 and a little finer, and exactly as in the enormous series of 

 H. janthinus from the Belgian Congo before me, these latter 

 having the claw-like tarsal development to the second tarsal 

 joint. H. incequalis and H. seiniUevis are allied insects with 

 toothed anterior trochanters and simj)le anterior tarsi in (^ , 

 the former having narrower and more strongly api)endiculate 

 intermediate tibite, and the latter much shorter elytra. 



64. Jiapaloc/irus kenijensis. 



? Apalochrus semicupretts, (i.»\>. heiiyenais, I'ic, Melanges e,\ot.-eiitom. 

 xxxi. p. 10 ( J ? ) (Oct. 1919). 



(^ . Rather short, fusco-liirsute, brilliant bluish-green, the 

 elytra cyaneous, the antcniue (the lower surface of joints 

 1 and 2 excepted) and h gs black or metallic. Head and 



