488 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



margin ; the head and prothorax sparsely, minutely, the 

 elytra densely, finely punctsite. Head much narrower than 

 the prothorax ; antennae moderately long, feebly serrate. 

 Prothorax transverse, convex, rounded at the sides. Elytra 

 widened posteriorly. 



(J . Autennse much longer, rather stout, strongly serrate ; 

 head (PI. XIV, fig. 34) wider, transversely excavate above, 

 and with a smooth fovea on each side behind the eyes, the 

 excavation bituberculate within, its anterior margin deeply 

 trisinuate and also tuberculate in the middle ; prothorax 

 very l)road. transversely subquadrate, nodose near each hind 

 angle; elytra sidsparallel, about as broad as the prothorax, 

 with a prominent, oblique humeral carina; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 slightly thickened, 2 raised above the base of 3. 



Lengtii 2i-3 mm. ( cf ? •) 



J lab. S. AfKiCA, D.rling, Cape Colony {L. Peringuey, in 

 Mus. Cape Toivn : x. 1905). 



One male, five females. A very peculiar, isolated form, 

 ])rovisionally included under Hedybius, the ? having the 

 facies of a typical Attahcs, the S ^vith remarkable characters. 



Philhedonus. 



Philhedonus, Gorbani, Anu. & Mag. Xat. Ilisf. (7) v. p. 82 (1900) [type 



P. coronatvs, Gorh.]. 

 Hedyhiocephalm, Pic, L'Ecbauge, xix. p. 144 (1903). 



These genera are each based upon a single species with 

 4-jointed anterior tarsi in ^ , Pic's type having a broader 

 head and angulate sides to the prothorax in the same sex, 

 characters iusufiicient for generic separation, similar specific 

 ditt'erences occurring amongst the numerous Hedybii *. 



1. Philhedonus coronatus. 



Philhedonus coronatus, Gorh. Ann. & Mag. Xat. Hist. (7) v. p. 82 

 (c? 2)(1900)(iiecr;.irni.). 



(J. Antennae short (as in ? ), rather stout, moderately 

 serrate; head (Fl. XIV. fig. 35) much narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, flattened, rugulose, opaque, with four arcuately- 

 arranged, corapiessed tubercles extending across the vertex ; 

 prothorax angularly produced in the centre in front, and 



* There is another allied monotypic S. African Malachiid genus witli 

 4-jointed anterior tarsi in J — Colpometopus, xVb., type pithecus, Ab. 

 (lyOO) (= Tivj/lops ha.-iicornis, F&irm., 1S94), — but tliis insect has the head 

 and antenn:e differently formed, an apterous $, &c. 



