478 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



hroad median vitta (which is cleft in front and ohliqncly 

 biramose behind), black; the head and prothorax are opaque 

 and the elytra shining, the latter densely, finely punctate; 

 the head is very large. The pygidium is feebly sulcate at the 

 tip (as in some ? ? of //. mm'shalll), the groove being 

 much shorter and shallower than in H. erosus and //, sulci- 

 pygus. The type is labelled, in the author's handwriting, 

 " Hedybius lomjicoccijx^' the specific name obviously refer- 

 ring to the shape of the broad protlioracic vitta, Mhich 

 resembles that of H. erosus, Er., cJ ; the published name 

 " lovglcoxis " must therefore have been a misprint, but, un- 

 fortunately, it cannot now be changed. 



29. Hedybius kabetensis, sp. n. 



c? . Elongate, Avideued posteriorly, shining, thickly clothed 

 with cinereous pubescence which is abundantly intermixed 

 with long, erect, soft, blackish hairs ; black, the antennae 

 (except at the base and apex) testaceous, the prothorax 

 iiavous, the elytra with a bluish or greenish lustre, the 

 ventral segments 1-4 wholly or in part rufescent ; the head 

 and prothorax extremely finely, the elytra densely, roughly 

 punctate. Head (text-fig. 2) broadly hollowed above and 

 with three large deep fovese between the eyes, two small 

 fove?e in front of these, and a stout, angular, post-ocular 



Text-fi>r. 2. 



Head of Iledyhius kahetensis, J . 



])romi nonce on each side, the central fovea bordered poste- 

 liorly by an arcuate ridge ; antennae moderately long, 

 serrate. Prothorax transverse, a little Avider than the head, 

 rounded at the sides, obliquely narrowed behind, transversely 

 excavate anteriorly, and with the anterior margin produced 

 in the middle into a long, triangular, dentiform, porrect 

 process, the black hairs on the disc condensed into a scattered 

 tuft behind the cavity in one specimen. Elytra moderately 

 elongate. Pygidium constricted and abruptly narrowed 



