the African Species o/Hedybius. 461 



8. Hedybius formosus. 



Mdlacldus formosua, Reicbe, in Galiuier's Voyage Abyss., Ins. p. L'OO, 



t. 17. fig, 8. 

 Iledi^bius formosus, Gorb. Ann. Mus. Geneva, xviii. pp. 597, 598 ( d $ ) 



(1888). 

 Hedybius formoms, var. bi-i7iterrupta, Pic, L'Echange, xxvi. p. 5 



(1910). 



S . Head (PI. XIII. fig. 8) flavoiis, very broad, wider than 

 the prothorax, the inter-ocular excavation deep, sharply 

 defined, divided by a strong, sinuous, transverse ridge, and 

 bordered laterally by an angular, externally-convex, vertical, 

 supra-ocular elevation, the excavation with a small, smooth, 

 triangular cavity in the middle, in front of which is a short 

 convex plica ; antennfe rather slender, long, serrate ; pro- 

 thorax angularly dilated laterally, the margins strongly 

 reflexed ; anterior tarsi simple, 5-jointed ; pygidium 

 testaceous. 



$ . Head not so wide, flattened, black in its basal half; 

 antennffi more slender, short; pygidium black ; prothorax 

 less angnlate at the sides. 



Hab. Abyssinia {Mus. Genoa ; Mus. Brit.). 



One c? and two $ ? seen. There appears to be a long 

 series of it in the Genoa Museum. H. limbatipennis, Pic 

 (1914), from the same country, is said to be near the 

 present species. 



9. Hechjbius macuUfer. « 



5. Malachius biinacuhdm, Bob. Ins. Caffraria, i. p. 465 (1851) (uec 



Ericbson, 1840) \ 

 Hedybius (?) maculifer, Ab. de Perrin, Rev. d'Eut. xix. pp. 164, 174 



(2) (1900) ^ 



^. Head (PI. XIII. fig. 9) as wide as the prothorax, testa- 

 ceous in its anterior half, very deeply, transversely arcuato- 

 excavate between the eyes, the excavation obliquely plicate 

 on each side in front, extended in the middle anteriorly, 

 and with a small raised point in the centre; antennee 

 short, rather stout, moderately serrate, joints 1-4 testa- 

 ceous beneath ; anterior tarsi S-jointed, simple. 



? . Head black, flattened. 



Hab. S. Africa (Mus. Cap§ Toivn), River Limpopo ^, 

 Ilamman's Kraal, near Pretoria^. 



Dr. Peringuey has lent me the type ( ? ) of i7. maculifer, 

 Ab., and also two males of the same species. The former 

 agrees well with the description of H. biinaculatus, Boh., 

 the type of which must be ? . A small (length 3-3^ mm.), 



