462 Mr. G. C. Cliampion on 



liairVj nigro-violaceous insect, with a large orange-yellow, 

 outwardly-dilated patch at the sides of the elytra before the 

 middle^ as in H. (Malachius) erichsoni, Boh. The cephalic 

 cavity is deep and broad, and the vertex is without tubercles. 

 The antennae are short in both sexes. 



10. Hedybius flav'masus, sp. n. 



J. Moderately elongate, rather convex^ shining, closely 

 pubescent without longer erect hairs intermixed ; black, the' 

 basal joints o£ the antennae testaceous, the head in great 

 part flavous (the base only black), the elytra violaceous, 

 with a common, broad, angulate, outwardly-dilated orange 

 fascia before the middle; tlie head at the base and the pro- 

 thorax closely, very minutely, the elytra finely, distinctly, 

 punctured. Head (PI. XIII. fig. 10) as broad as the pro- 

 thorax, the flavous anterior portion glabrous, almost smooth, 

 and with a deep, ti'ansverse, arcuate excavation between the 

 eyes anteriorly, the epistoma also excavate down the 

 middle and bearing an erect compressed spine in the centre 

 behind; antennse rather short and stout, serrate. Prothorax 

 transverse, convex, rounded at the sides. Elyti'a com- 

 ])aratively short, slightly widened posteriorly, broader than 

 the prothorax. Anterior tarsi 5-jointed, simple. 



Length 2| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Bulawayo, jNIatabeleland (Z)r. G. A. K. 

 Marshall : xii. 1903). 



One male. •Closely related to H. maculifer, Ab. ( = 

 bhnaculatus, Boh., nee Er.), and with similar <^ -characters ; 

 the elytra much more finely punctured, and v.ith a complete 

 orange ante-mediau fascia, the hairs much shorter and less 

 erect. 



11. Hedybius trilobatus, sp. n. 



^ . Moderately elongate, slightly widened posteriorly, 

 shining, sparsely cinereo-pubescent, the elytra with long, 

 soft, pallid, semiert ct hairs ; black with a slight bluish 

 lustre, the antennal joints 2-4 in part, the head (the basal 

 portion behind the median cavity excepted), the elytra 

 (except at the base and apex), and the dorsal surface of the 

 abdomen to about the middle, testaceous or orange-red, the 

 rest of the elytra nigro-violaceous — the basal fascia narrow, 

 widened towards the suture, the apical patch broader, bi- 

 excised anteriorly ; the basal portion of the head and the 

 prothorax sparsely, minutely, the elytra closely, rather 



