34 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



previously described insect [op. cit. (9) ix. p. 580, nota]. 

 In the additional material now to hand, there is one new 

 species (No 10 a) ; several-more examples oi H. ramulosus 



(No. 12), from Bulawayo and Victoria Falls [Mus. Oxon.) 

 and Kaapmuiden, Transvaal {Mus. Cape Town) ; and speci- 

 mens of H. janthinus, var. ( c? ) , kenyensis {S)y confusus ( J ) , 



trapeziderus ( $ ), and amplipennis ( $ ), from Kabete, Kenya 

 Colony. Malachius ccei^ulescens (? = mashunus, Gorh.) and 

 M. coffer, Boh. (? =H. nitens, Gorh.), must belong, as stated 

 by me [op. cit. (9) ix. p. 581], to Hapalochrus. 



10 {a). Hapalochrus crassipes, sp. n. 



(^ . Elongate, narrow, subparallel-sided, shining, clothed 

 with fine pubescence intermixed with long erect hairs; 

 black, the anterior legs in great part, the other legs (the 

 posterior femora and the tips of the tarsi excepted) to a less 

 extent, and an apical patch on the elytra, testaceous, the 

 rest of the elytral surface metallic green. Head broad, 

 densely, rugulosely punctate ; antennae long, stout, 10- 

 jointed, strongly flabellate. Pro thorax short, broad, trans- 

 versely subquadrate, very sparsely punctured. Elytra long, 

 a little broader than the protborax at the base, gradually 

 widening towards the tip ; closely rugosely punctured. 

 Legs stout ; anterior femora strongly incrassate, toothed at 

 the base beneath; anterior tibiae greatly thickened, abruptly 

 obliquely compressed, and emarginate towards the apex ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, curved, 2 with a 

 claw-like extension over 3 above; intermediate tibiae dilated, 

 hollowed towards the tip within. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Namutoni {K. Barnard, in Mus. Cape 

 Town). 



This remarkable Malachiid was sent me for determination 

 or description after my paper on the species of Hapalochrus 

 was published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) vi., Aug. 1920]. 

 It is a close ally of H. (Calosotis) barkeri, Pic {=H. dasyti- 

 formis, Champ., No. 10) ■^, differing from the ^ of that insect 

 in the metallic-green, apically testaceo-maculate elytra ; the 

 stout, flabellate, black antennae ; and the thicker legs, 

 the intermediate tibiae being widened as in many other 

 species of the same genus. 



* Cf. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) ix. p. 580 (May 1922). 



