the African Species o/TIedybius. 479 



beyond the middle, the produced apical portion deeply sub- 

 triaugularly emargiuate at the tij), and raised on each side 

 from near its base. Anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 

 2 extending over the base of 3. 



? . Antennae almost wholly black; pygidium not con- 

 stricted posteriorly, simple. 



Length 4^ mm." ( (^ ? .) 



Hab. E. Afkica, Kabete (T. J. Anderson: 28. ii. 1918). 



Two pairs. Near H. hamatipygus, from Rhodesia and the 

 Transvaal, the elytra densely, roughly punctured, and the 

 legs black ; the S with antennae almost wholly testaceous, 

 the frontal cavity deeply trifoveate, and the pygidium black 

 and very differently shaped. H. cucullatus and H. ucanthu- 

 pyyus are also nearly related to the present insect. Attains 

 grandis, Ab., from Abyssinia (type ? ?) (1890), a ? of 

 which, found by Raffray, is before me, will perhaps prove 

 to be congeneric, when the S is found. 



30. Hedijbius sulcipygus, sp. n. 



? . INIoderately elongate, rather broad, widened poste- 

 riorly, shining, the elytra clothed with whitish pubescence 

 intermixed with long, erect, blackish bristly hairs, the rest 

 of the surface and the legs with long, soft, pallid hairs ; 

 testaceous^ the eyes, two small oblong spots on the disc of 

 the prothorax, scutellum, anterior coxse, and pygidium in- 

 f uscate or black ; the head and prothorax very sparsely, 

 minutely, the elytra densely, finely, subrugulosely punctate. 

 Head nearly as wide as the prothorax, transversely excavate 

 anteriorly ; antenna short, slender. Prothorax strongly 

 transverse, rounded at the sides. Elytra moderately long. 

 Pygidium suleate. 



Length 3| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Salisbury [Dr. G. A. K. Marshall). 



One specimen. Separable from all the allied S. African 

 forms by the wholly testaceous head. The only other 

 species known to me with a suleate pygidium are H. erosus, 

 Er., and H. lo/igicoxis, Ab., which are much larger forms, 

 the former having more coarsely punctured elytra. 

 H. (Mulachms) viridipermis, F., from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, a species not identified by Erichsou or myself, has a 

 red head, but its identification with the insect before me is 

 too doubtful to be accepted ; the description is as follows : — 

 " M. pubescens rufus elytris peetoreque viridi-ioneis. . . . 

 Statura omnino pnecedentium [Collups ■i-muculatus, F.]. 

 Caput rufum, inimaculatum. Thorax rufus macula mcdiana 



