402 Mr. Gr. C. Champion on 



5. Philhedonus fossuUfer. 

 cJ. He dyhioce]3hahis fossuUfer, Pic, L'Ecbange, xix. p. 144 (1903). 



^ . Head (PI. XIV. fig. 38) large, broad, flattened, with a 

 compressed anguhir prominence in the centre of the vertex 

 and fonr transversely-placed, equidistant fovea3 in a line with 

 the posterior margin of the eyes; antennae rather short, 

 serrate, tapering outwards, joint 1 above and the apices of 

 6—11 sharply iiigro-niaculate ; prothorax broad, angulate 

 laterally, and angularly raised and feebly dentate in the 

 centre in front. 



Hob. S. Africa, Dunbrody, Uitenhage, Cape Colony 

 {CyNeil: Mus. Brit.', Mus. Cape Toivn; Mus. Durban). 



I have seen fifteen exam))les of this species, all males. 

 An opaque (the somewhat shining elytra excepted), closely 

 cinereo-pubescent, black insect, with the anterior portion 

 of the head, the antennae in part, the prothorax (a broad 

 oblongo-quadrate median patch excepted), and sometimes the 

 anterior or intermediate tibiae and tarsi in part, testaceous. 



6. Philhedonus felix. 



Antliocomus felix, Gorli. Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 3o7 (d ? ) 

 (1901). 



^ . Antennae rather short, stout, serrate; head (PI. XIV. 

 fig. 39) testaceous, black at the base, transversely depressed 

 on the vertex, and with a V-shaped, laterally-prominent 

 carina between the eyes, the carina obliquely grooved on 

 each side behind, the front longitudinally bi-impressed ; pro- 

 thorax with a large triangular or scutiform black patch on 

 the anterior part o.f the disc, deeply, transversely foveate in 

 the centre in front, and with a triangular, erect prominence 

 arising from the m'ddle of the anterior margin ; terminal 

 dorsal segment of abdomen constricted and tubulate at the 

 apex, emarginate at the tip, a pair of long, slender, hook- 

 like processes projecting beneath it ; anterior tarsi simple, 

 4-jointed. 



?. Antennae shorter and more slender; prothorax with 

 the black patch on the disc reduced to a narrow line or 

 altogether wanting ; pygidium testaceous, as in c? . 



Hub. Rhodesia, Salisbury. 



Three S S and two ? ? seen. Gorham noticed the 

 absence of the overlapping anterior tarsal joint in tlie c^ of 

 this species, but he failed to observe that the tarsi themselves 



