482 Mr. G. C. Chami)ion on 



raised, transversely-cordate, deeply bifbveate space in tlie 

 middle, the lateral margins of which are sometimes elevated 

 into a small tooth behind; pygidium constricted at the 

 apex, and there armed with two long, curved, black spines, 

 the terminal ventral segment with two similar spines ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 

 the base of 3, black at the tip. 



Length 2|-3l mm. ((??.) 



Hub. S. Africa, Salisburv, Rhodesia {Dr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall: i. 1895, ii. 1906). 



Five cJ c^, 3 ? ? . A small form, with testaceous head, 

 prothorax, and legs, and bluish-green elytra; the male with 

 a transversely-cordate, bifoveate, raided area in the middle 

 of the head, followed by a deep subarcuate groove, and the 

 tip of the abdomen armed with four long black spines. The 

 antennae vary in colour, and in one S there is a scutiform 

 dark patch on the disc of the prothorax. The ^ cephalic 

 structure is very like that of H. simoni, Ab. 



34. Hedybius aulicus. 



2 . Cistela auUca, Fabr. Spec. In.s. i. p. 148 (1781) "■. 



Heihihius anlicus, Blair, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) v. p. 1G2 (1920) ^ 



Can'tharis collaris, Thunb. Dissert, iii. p. 203 ^ 



Heihjhius collaris, Er. Eutomograpbien, p. 95 (J $ ) (1840) ^ 



Attains riigipentm, Ab. de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. xix. pp. 1G4, 174 ( $ ) 



(1900) '. 

 ? Philhedomts rugulosus, Gorb. P.Z. S. 1905, ii. p. 278 (c? $ ) ^ 

 Hedybius sp. ?, Dixey and Longstaff, Trans. Eut. Soc. Loud. 1907, 



p.'378^ 

 ? Hedyhius atripes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. xxv. p. 2 (1917) '*. 



(J . Antennae long, rather stout, sharply serrate ; head 

 (PI. XIV. fig. 30) rather small, black, the space between the 

 labrum and epistoma ( = clypeus of Erichson) testaceous, 

 the vertex with a very deep, smooth, transverse, somewhat 

 obli([ue furrow on each side, the two furrows coalescent and 

 extending forwards for a short distance at the middle, and 

 each bordered anteriorly by a curved ridge; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 tliickened, 2 extending over 3 above; pro- 

 thorax short, with a black patch of variable extent on the 

 anterior part of the disc. 



? . Anteunse short, rather slender, more feebly serrate ; 

 head about as broad as in (^ , slightly depressed in the 

 middle ; prothorax often wholly rufous. 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope^^^^ (type of Fabri- 

 cius, in Mus. Brit?), Lion's Head, Cape Town ^, Table Mt.'^, 

 Dunbrody, Willowmore", Ceres. Champs Bay, Port Elizabeth, 



