484 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



blackish hairs; nigro-cseruleous^ the prothorax and abdomen 

 rufous, the aiiteunse (the testaceous outer edge of joints 1-4 

 excepted) and legs black ; the head and ])rothorax sparsely, 

 minutely, the elytra densely, finely, rugulosely punctate, 

 the elytra with an indication of raised lines on the disc. 

 Head narrower than the prothorax, with an oval convex 

 space in the middle between the eyes ; antennse rather short, 

 stout, sharply serrate. Prothorax moderately transverse, 

 convex, rounded at the sides, obliquely narrowed posteriorly, 

 the margins narrowly refiexed. Elytra at tlie base much 

 Avider than the prothorax, rapidly widening to near the apex. 

 Legs hairy. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hub. E. Africa, Mt. Kokanjero, S.W. of Elgon, Uganda 

 Protectorate {S. A. Neave : viii. 1911). 



One examj)le. Very like the S. African H. (Philhedomis) 

 sericeus, Gorh, ( ? only of which is known), and separable 

 from it by the less transverse prothorax, the sharply serrate 

 antennae, and the red abdomen. 



37. Hedybius diver sip ennis. 

 Hedybius diver sipennis, Pic, L'Ecliauge, xxiii. p. Icil {S) (1907). 



^ . Tete large, rouge en avant noire en arriere, fortement 

 creusee et munie au milieu d'une epine (foncee en dessus) et 

 en avant d^un appendice avec 4 gibbosites dentiformes ; 

 antennes assez courtes, diminues a i^extremite, noires avec 

 articules 1-3 rouges le premier epais. [Pic] 



? . Head rugose, rufous, black at the base, flattened, 

 depressed in the middle in front; abdomen red, the terminal 

 one or two doi'sal segments nigro-maculate. 



Hab. Rhodesia, Plumtree {type of Pic: c? ), Empaudeni 

 {Mus. Cape Town : ? ). 



A robust, shining, pilose, rufescent insect, with the base 

 of the head, the metasternum, the femora in part, and the 

 pygidium in the ? , black, and the elytra each with two blue 

 or violaceous patches — one basal, excised behind, the other 

 subapical, both nearly or quite reaching the suture, — and the 

 elytra themselves as coarsely punctured as in Illops cot-nicu- 

 latus, Er. Dr. Peringuey has sent me two females of it for 

 determination. 



38. Hedybius quadripustulatus, sp. n. 



? . Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining, thickly clothed 

 with pallid pubescence intermixed with long, erect, soft. 



