the African Species of Hedjbliis. 453 



Hub. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope [Mus. Brit., Mus. 

 O.von.). 



Five ? ? : three, labelled " C. G. H./' in the Oxford 

 Museum ; two in the British Museum — one obtained from 

 the Entomological Club in 184.4, without locality, the other, 

 purchased with the Bowring collection in 1863, labelled 

 " Java,^^ obviously in error. These insects are named in 

 each collection /. corniculatus, Er., ? , from whicli they 

 differ in their much larger size, the non-granulate disc of 

 the prothorax, and the greater extension of the reddish 

 coloration on the elytra. The metallic, less rugose head, 

 the much smoother disc of the prothorax, and the more 

 coarsely punctured elytra separate them from /. dentiyer, 

 with which I was at first inclined to associate them. 



Hedybius. 



Hedyhius, Ericlison, Entomographien, p. 92 (1840) [type Cistela 

 hirta, F. — CcmtJiaris octdata, Thunb.]. 



Forty-two species are enumerated under this genus, nearly 

 all the described forms, including males of thirty-two of them, 

 being represented in the material examined. H. cethiopicus, 

 Pic (1907), type c? , fi'om Uomba, Ethiopia, and H. limbati- 

 pennis, Pic (1915), types (^ ? ,from Abyssinia, are unknown 

 to me. H. [Flabellohedybius) maculatipennis, Pic (1917), 

 type cJ, from Chiudar, an insect with transversely plicate 

 apices of the elyti'a, must belong elsewhere. H. cavifrons. 

 Boh. {=ferox, Ab., and nataleasis, Gorli.), is a Dino- 

 metopus. 



The following Table will assist in the identification of the 

 species of Hedybius, of which the cJ rj are available for 

 examination ; five others are known from the $ only, and 

 three from imperfectly described (^ ^ , and their correct 

 position is therefore uncertain : — 



6 6*. 



1 (14). Anterior tarsi simple. [Hedybius s. sir.] 



2 (3). Prothorax cristate in the middle iu front, 



testaceous, maculate on disc ; elytra and 



abdomen metallic; legs testaceous Species 1. 



3 (2). Prothorax not cristate in front. 



4 (9). Elytra uniformly metallic. 



5 (6). Elytra tuberculate ; prothorax testaceous, 



sharply nigro-bivittate ; legs testaceous; 



abdomen metallic Species 2. 



* The structure of the 6 anterior tarsi in Xo.?. 0. 7, 37 has not been 

 described ; $ $ only known of Nos. 28, 30, 35, 36, 38. 



