the African Species of Hedybius, 453 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope {Mus. Brit., Mus. 

 Oxon.). 



Five ? ? : three, labelled " C. G. H./' in the Oxford 

 Museum ; two in the British Museum— -one obtained from 

 the Entomological Club in 18-14I, without locality, the other, 

 purchased with the Bowring collection in 1863, labelled 

 " Java,^^ obviously in error. These insects are named in 

 each collection /. coniiculatus, Er., ? , from which they 

 differ in their much larger size, the non-granulate disc of 

 the j)rothorax, and the greater extension of the reddish 

 coloration on the elytra. The metallic, less rugose head, 

 the much smoother disc of the prothorax, and the more 

 coarsely punctur^ elytra separate them from /. dentigery 

 with which I was at first inclined to associate them. 



Hedybius. 



Hedyhms, Ericlispn, Entomographien, p. 92 (1840) [type Cistela 

 hirta, F. = Cantharis oculata, Tliunb.]. 



Forty-two species are enumerated under this genus, nearly 

 all the described forms, including males of thirty-two of them, 

 being represented in the material examined. H. (Bthiopicus, 

 Pic (1907), type c? , from Uomba, Ethiopia, and H. limbati- 

 pennis, Pic (1915), types J' ? , from Abyssinia, are unknown 

 to me. H. [Flabelloheilybius) maculatipennis, Pic (1917), 

 type $ , from Chindar, an insect with transversely plicate 

 apices of the elytra, must belong elsewhere. H. cavifrons. 

 Boh. {=ferox, Ab., and natalensis, Gorh.), is a Dino- 

 metopus. 



The following Table will assist in the identification of the 

 species of Hedybius, of which the ^ ^ are available for 

 examination ; five others are known from the ? only, and 

 three from imperfectly described ^ ^ , and their correct 

 position is therefore uncertain : — 



6 6*- 



1 (14). Anterior tarsi simple. [Hedybius s. str.] 



2 (3). Prothorax cristate iu the middle in front, 



testaceous, maculate on disc ; elytra and 



abdomen metallic ; legs testaceous Species 1 . 



3 (2). Prothorax not cristate iu front. 



4 (9). Elytra uniformly metallic. 



6 (6). Elytra tuberculate ; prothorax testaceous, 

 sharply nigro-bivittate ; legs testaceous ; 

 abdomen metallic Species 2. 



* The structure of the J anterior tarsi in Nos. G, 7, 37 has not been 

 described ; § $ only known of Nos. 28, 30, 3o, 30, 38. 



