82 Rev. H. S. Gorhani on neio Coleoptern 



from tlie black templar portion. The disk of the thorax is 

 smooth but dull, it is yellow, but in the male a large patch, 

 rather narrower in front than at the base, occupies the greater 

 part and covers the base for nearly its whole width. The 

 tliorax is a little less wide than the head in the male, and 

 in that sex the edge is notched below the middle. The 

 scutellum is black ; the elytra are blue or with agveen metallic 

 tint as in B. amosnus and very closely and finely ])unctured. 



All these three Hedybii were found cither on the Acacia 

 horrida or by sweeping on grass, and no doubt on flowers 

 and herbage generally. 



Philhedonus, gen, no v. 



Corpus oblongum, postice modice expansum. Antennae breves, in 

 utroque sexu leviter serrate. Tarsi longi, maris 4-articulati. 

 Caput (maris) carina transversa bidentata. Prothorax -(maris) 

 antice dentato-productus. Eeliqua^ plerumque ut in Hedijbio, 

 Erichson. 



Philhedonus coronatus, sp. n. 



Niger, ore, antennamm basi, thoraceque rutis, hoc punctis duobus 

 interdum conflueutibus nigris; elytris coeruleis, creberrime minute 

 punctatis, pube brevi tenuiter erecta vestitis. 



Long. 5-5-C) millim. 



3Ias, capite carina transversa, bidentata, postice instructa ; pro- 

 tboracis margine autico dentato-producto ; tarsis 4-articulatis. 



Uob. j\Iashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall). 



The head is black, the labrum blood-red, and the palpi are 

 blackish. The antennae are rather shorter than they usually 

 are in female Hedyhii; their third to the tenth joints are 

 subequal, and not or scarcely longer than wide, there is no 

 apparent difference in those of the male ; the first four joints 

 are yellow^ but in the male and sometimes in the female the 

 third and fourth are infuscate internally. The head in the 

 male has at its base a ridge which is bituberculate on each 

 side, the outer tubercule being the larger, and both are yellow 

 at their summits; the thorax in this sex has the middle of 

 the front margin acutely produced and turned upwards^ with 

 a tuft of black hairs at its tip. The disk of the thorax is 

 \e\y smooth and shining, blood-red, with either two nearly 

 confluent black dots or with a single larger spot nearly 

 reaching the front margin ; its front margin in the female is 

 truncate, faintly bisinuate, the sides and base together round 

 and finely margined. The scutellum is transverse, black, and 



