458 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Var. Iledi/bius elonc/atas, var. luteonotatus, Pic, L'Ecliange, xxvii. 



p. 157 (■d)(]911)'». 

 Iledybius sp. ?, Dixey & Longstaff, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1907, 



p. 380 '. 



^ . Head (PI. XIII. fig. 5) broad, testaceous between and 

 before the eyes, black at tlie base, the epistotna metallic; 

 with a very deep oblique excavation on each side between the 

 ex^cs and a transverse one in the centre, the former bordered 

 externally by a very prominent oblique ridge and the central 

 one by two small tubercles in front. Antenna? (PI. XIII. 

 fig. 5 a) long, joints 1-6 (except 1 above and the basal 

 half of 5) testaceous, 7-11 black, 2 short, 3 much longer 

 and stouter, 4 shorter than 3, dentate within, 5 elongate, 

 abnormal, constricted at the middle, and with the basal 

 portion dentate within, 6 not longer than 4, subdentate, 

 7-11 elongate, 7-10 widened, subtriangular, 7 slightly 

 dentate at the tip within. Anterior tarsi simple. 



? . Head smaller, metallic ; antennae short, rather 

 slender, joints 1-6 (except 1 above) more or less tes- 

 taceous. 



Hab. S. Africa, Blauwberg, Saldanha River, and Kalk 

 Bay (Mus. Cape l^oivn), Cape of Good Hope^'^ (Mus. Brit.), 

 Rapenburg, Cape Flats (K. E. Turner: x. 1920), Simons 

 Bay^ {G. B. Longstaff, in Mus. Oxon.) ; E. Africa^. 



A long series of both sexes of this common Cape insect 

 has been lent me by Dw Peringuey. The ^ is readily dis- 

 tinguished from the same sex of H. smaragdalus by the 

 abnormally formed, basally maculate antennae, and the 

 metallic epistoma ; the *? by the paler basal joints of the 

 antennae. Thunbet-g's type [S ?) has paler tibiae and 

 tarsi, but no reliance need be placed on this character, the 

 tarsi, at least, being testaceous in some of the examples 

 before me. 



4. Hedybius smaragdulas. 

 Hedybius smaragdidus, Er. Entomographien, p. 96 [S) (1840). 



S . Head (PI. XIII. fig. 6) broad, bluish-black at the base, 

 for the rest (the labrum excepted) flavo-testaceous, deeply 

 excavate and transversely trifoveate in the middle, obliquely 

 raised on each side between the eyes, the flavous portion 

 smooth. Antennae (PI. XIII. fig. 6 a) long, black, joints 2-5 

 sometimes obscurely reddish, 2 very short, 3 and 4 mode- 

 rately elongate, subequal, 5 much longer than 4, 6 shorter, 

 not longer than 3, 7-11 elongate, 7-10 wider than the 

 preceding joints, subtriangular. Anterior tarsi simple. 



