THE ANNALS 



AND 



AIAGAZLNE OF NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 47. NOVEMBER 1921. 



XLVIIT. — Revision of the African S^ec/e* 0/ Hedybius, Er., 

 and its Allies, with an Account of their accessory 

 ^ -characters [Coleoptera]. By G. C. Champion^ F.Z.S. 



[Plates Xin. & XIV.] 



This paper is based upon a study of the species of tlie 

 Malachiid genera Hechjbius, Er., Illops, Er.^ and Philhedonus, 

 Gorh., represented in the Cape Town Museum, the Durban 

 Museunij tlie British Museum in London, and the Hope 

 Collection at Oxford. The Cape Town material, which 

 includes the types of the various forms described or named 

 by Abeille de Perrin in 1900 and examples of most of the 

 species here enumerated, has been communicated by Dr. L. 

 Peringuey, Avho has allowed me to retain co-types or 

 duplicates for our National Collection. These genera, like 

 many others of the group, are based almost eotirely upon 

 c? -characters, audit is therefore impossible in some cases 

 to locate with any certainty a $ example when that sex 

 only is available for examination. Again, the head, antennje, 

 prothorax, or pygidium is sometimes differently coloured, 

 or otherwise maculate, in the two sexes, at least in the 

 genus Hedyhius. The result is that several species have 

 been described two or three times under different names. 

 Paired examples of various S. African forms sent by 

 Dr. Peringuey, and the abundant material obtained by 

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