the African Species of Hedybius. 457 



2. Hedyhius verrucosus, sp. n. 



? . Elonn^ate, broad, widened posteriorly, shining, some- 

 what tliicklyclothedwith long,erect, blackish hairs intermixed 

 on the elytra witli closely-set whitish pubescence ; blue or 

 bluish-green, the head (except at the extreme base), antennse, 

 l)rolhorax (two rather broad, laterally-angulate, black vitta; 

 on the disc excepted), coxae (the anterior pair excepted), and 

 legs testaceous; the head and prothorax very sparsely, 

 minutely punctate, the elytra closely, finely punctured and 

 rather strongly verrucose. Plead comparatively short, much 

 narrower than the prothorax, transversely depressed between 

 the eyes anteriorly; antennae short, serrate. Prothorax 

 much broader than long, convex, rounded at the sides. 

 Legs hairy. 



cJ , Antennas longer and stouter, joints 4-10 more or less 

 infuscate above, 4-10 rounded at their inner apical angle ; 

 head (PI. XIII. fig. 4) not, or scarcely, wider than in $ , with 

 a broad, deep, transverse excavation between the eyes above, 

 which is limited on each side by an oblique sinuous ridge, 

 the excavation (two testaceous spots excepted) black and 

 opaque within, bifoveate in front, and interrupted at the 

 middle by a short longitudinal plica; prothorax somewhat 

 produced in the middle in front ; anterior tarsi simple, 

 5-jointed. 



Length 5-5| mm. ((^ $ .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Grootfontein, Middelburg, Cape Province 

 (Mus. Brit. : cJ ? ), Willowmore and Hex River [Mus. Cape 

 Town : c? ? ), Transvaal (ex coll. Fry). 



Twelve examples seen, five of which are males : six from 

 Willowmore were captured by Dr. Brauns on Aug. 15 ib, 

 190.2 ; four from Grootfontein, received at the British 

 Museum during the present year, are labelled as having been 

 found with II. c/j/peolus, Er. The simple anterior tarsi and 

 the relatively small head bring this species near H. hirtus, F. 

 ( = oculatus, Thunb.), from which it is separable by the 

 sharply angulato-bivittate prothorax and the verrucose 

 elytra, the J" with a black cephalic cavity and a non-cristate 

 prothorax. 



3. Hedyhius billbergi. 



(S . Malachms bilWeryi, Tliunb. in Schunlierr's Sjn. Ins. i. 2, p. 79 



(1806) \ 

 Hedyhius elonyatiis, Er. Entoruograpliien, p. 90 ( $ ) (1840)". 



