the African Species of Iledybius 



455 



29 {2Q). 



30 (31) 



31 (30), 



32 (33) 



33 (32) 



34 (19) 



35 (18). 



36 (17). 



37 (40). 



38 (39). 



39 (38). 



40 (37). 



41 (42). 



42 (41). 



43 (44). 



44 (43). 



Species 24. 



Species 25, 26. 

 Species 27-30. 



Antennae in great part or entirely testaceous 

 above : the jointi^ 3 and 4 in No. 25, and 4 

 only in No. 2Q, with a shining black area 

 beneath. 



Fifth antennal joint dilated, triangular 



Fiftli antennal joint not dilated. 



Pygidiuni not sulcate 



Pygiiliuni sulcate (emarginate in No. 29) .... 

 Terminal dorsal and ventral segments of 

 abdomen furnished with projecting black 

 hooks or spines ; prothorax cristate in 

 No. 31, or angularly raised in No. 32, in 

 the middle in front ; legs wholly or in part 

 black in Nos. 31, 32, testaceous in No. 33. . Species 31-33. 

 Legs black; prothorax red, sometimes nigro- 

 maculate on the disc anteriorly ; elytra 

 subtuberculate in No. 34, finely punctured 

 in Nos. 35, 36 ; abdomen black in Nos. 34, 



35, red in No. 36 



Elytra maculate or fasciate. 



Legs wholly or in part, prothorax, and elytra 



rufous or testaceous, the elytra violaceo- or 



cseruleo-maculate at base and at or towards 



apex. 



Elytral puncturing coarse ; head with a 



central spine 



Elytral puncturing fine ; head without spine . 

 Legs black or metallic. 



Prothorax and elytra violaceous, the latter 



each with a broad orange lateral patch. . . . 



Prothorax at sides or base testaceous or rufous. 



Species 34-36. 



Species 37. 

 Species 38, 39. 



Elytra maculate, without humeral i)lica .... 



Elytra narrowly unifasciate, with humeral 



plica 



Species 40. 

 Species 41. 

 Species 42. 



1. Hedyhius hirtus. 



$. Cidelahirta, Fabr. Spec. Ins. i. p. 149 (1781) \ 



Hedyhius hirtus, Blair, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) v. p. 162 (1920) ^ 



2 . Cuntharis oculata, Thunb. Dissert, iii. p. 202 (1801) ^. 



(S . Iledybius oculatus, Er. Entomographien, p. 93 (1840) *. 



c? . Antennse moderately long, stout, tapering towards the 

 tip, testaceous in their basal half, the otlier joints black or 

 more or less infuscate, 4-10 triangular; head (as in ?) 

 testaceou?, nigro-maculate at the base in some specimens, nar- 

 rower than the prothorax, depressed between tlic eyes, trans- 

 versely angnlato- or sinuato-plicate above, and souietimes 

 raised in the centre beneath the prothoracic tu(t (PL Xlll. 

 fig. 3) ; prothorax testaceous,, with two small black spots on 

 the disc and often two other smaller spois near the base, and 

 furnished with a spiniform, porrect or upwardly-curved 

 matted fascicle of long black hairs in the centre in front ; 



