iJie African Species 0/ Hedybius. 489 



there furnished with an erect, matted, dentiform tuft of 

 hairs; anterior tarsi 4-joiiited, 1 and 2 long, 2 simple. 



Hab. Rhodesia, Salisbury. 



Seven males and two females seen. A robust, elong;tte 

 insect, with tlie head, antenna? (the testaceous basal joinfs 

 excepted^, legs, and under surface black ; the prothorax red, 

 a transverse black patch or two spots on the disc exce})ted ; 

 the elytra long, widened behind, blue or l)luish-greeu, finely 

 punctured, pilose ; the antennae short in l)oth sexes. Tbe 

 liead and prothorax are relatively smaller, than in the similarly 

 coloured HeclyJdi. Gorham suggests that the angular 

 anterior production of the S pi'othorax is a stridulating- 

 organ, but this cannot be the case. 



2. FJiilhedunus natalicus, sp. n. 



^ . Moderately elongate, much widened posteriorly, the 

 head dull, the prothorax opaque, the elytra shining, clothed 

 witli fine pubescence intermixed with long hairs; black, 

 the antennae in part, prothorax, and anterior legs (the 

 bases of tbe femora excepted) testaceous or rnto-testa- 

 ceous ; the head closely, minutely, the elytra finely and rather 

 sparsely, punctured, the prothorax almost smooth. Head 

 (PI. XIV. fig. 86) short, narrower than the prothorax, 

 flattened and uneven between the eyes, the vertex transversely 

 sinuato-excavate, the groove limited anteriorly by an angu- 

 late ridge, which is triangularly produced backward in the 

 centre ; antennae short, rather stout, subserrate. Prothorax 

 transverse, rounded at the sides, convex, angularly extended 

 forward in the middle in front. Elytra comparatively short, 

 depressed on the disc below the base. Anterior tarsi 

 4-jointed. 



$ . Antenna? shorter and more slender ; head and pro- 

 thorax shining, the former smoother and simply flattened, 

 the latter not produced in the middle in front. 



Length 3i-4i)im. ( c? ? .) 



Hab. Natal, Malvern {Mus. Cape Town). 



One pair. Much smaller and less elongate than P. coro- 

 natus, Gorh.,the head of the ($ simply angulato-carinate and 

 excavate on the vertex, without tubercles, the prothorax 

 immaculate, the elytra rather short, more finely punctured, 

 the anterior legs in great part testaceous. The opaque 

 surface of the prothorax of J may be due to immaturity. 



