the xlfrtcan Species 0/ Hedybiiis. 483 



Graliamstown, Giffcsberg, Saldauha Bay, Klipfoiitein, 

 Johannesburg, &c. 



A common S. African insect, the very long series 

 examined including the types ( ? ? ) of C. aulica and A. 

 rugipeunis, two specimens (?) of P. rugulosus from Willow- 

 more, and numerous examples ( c? ? ) recently captured by 

 Mr. R. E, Turner in Cape Colony. Gorbara described the 

 anterior tarsi of the c? of P* rujulosus as 4-jointed, possibly 

 owing to the third joint being concealed beneath the 

 superiorly-elongated second joint ; his description of the 

 head and antennai of that sex apply exactly to the species 

 before me. A. ruyipennis, type ? , has the prothorax 

 wholly reddish, as in some of the females from Saldauha 

 Bay, Lion's Hill, and Table Mt. A metallic blue or greenish 

 insect, with blick antennai (the three basal joints in part 

 excepted) and legs, a partly or wholly rufescent, short pro- 

 thorax, and closely punctate, tubereulate elytra, the elytra 

 much widened posteriorly, with abundant silvery, sub- 

 fasciately- arranged pubescence, intermixed with erect 

 blackish bristly hairs. Tlie head in the S is small, compared 

 with that of the allied forms. 



35. Hedybius (?) sericeus. 

 Philhedonus sericeus, Gorli. P. Z. S. 1905, ii. p. 277 {2V- 



Hah. S. Africa, Bothaville, Orange River Colony' {Dr. 

 Brauns: 3Ius. Cape Town, Mas. Brit.), Pretoria {Mas. Brit.), 

 Klerkadorp {E. G. Alston, in Mus. Cape Town). 



Of this species I have seen seven examples: two from 

 Bothaville, two from Pretoria, and three from Kkrkadorp, 

 all ? ? . 



A rather broad, shining, cinereo-pubescent, cseruleous 

 insect, with a strongly transverse, red prothorax (a narrow 

 scutiform or wedge-shaped mark in the middle in front 

 excepted, this being obsolete in one of the specimens before 

 me), and black antennse (the testaceous lower surface of 

 joints 1-3 excepted) and legs ; the elytra closely, finely 

 punctate; the antennae short, rather stout, serrate. P. seri- 

 ceus is almost certainly congeneric with Hedybius aulicus, F., 

 and it is therefore provisionally transferred to the same 

 genus. 



3G. Hedybius (?) rujiventris, sp. n. 



? . Elongate, much widened posteriorly, shining, thickly 

 clothed with whitish pubescence intermixed with long, erect, 



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