the African Species of Hedybius. 457 



2. Hedybius verrucosus, sp. u. 



$ . Elono-ate, broad, wideued posteriorly, shining-, some- 

 what tliicklj^clothed with long, erect, blackish hairsintermixed 

 on the elytra with closely-set whitish pubescence ; blue or 

 bluish-green, the head (except at the extreme base), antennae, 

 prothorax (two rather broad, laterally-angulate, black vittse 

 on the disc excepted), coxae (the anterior pair excepted), and 

 legs testaceous ; the head and prothorax very sparsely, 

 minutely punctate, the elytra closely, finely punctured and 

 rather strongly verrucose. Head comparatively short, much 

 narrower thau the prothorax, transversely depressed between 

 the eyes anteriorly; antennse short, serrate. Prothorax 

 much broader than long, convex, rounded at the sides. 

 Legs hairy. 



c? . Antennse longer and stouter, joints 4-10 more or less 

 infuscate above, 4-10 rounded at their inner apical angle; 

 head (PI. XIII. fig. 4) not, or scarcely, wider than in $ , with 

 a broad, deep, transverse excavation between the eyes above, 

 which is limited on each side by an oblique sinuous ridge, 

 the excavation (two testaceous spots excepted) black and 

 opnque within, bifoveate in front, and interrupted at the 

 middle by a short longitudinal plica; prothorax somewlnit 

 produced in the middle in front ; anterior tarsi simple, 

 5-jointed. 



Length 5-5| mm. ((??.) 



Hub. S. Africa, Grootfontein, Middelburg, Cape Province 

 {Mus. Brit. :(??), Willowmore and Hex River [Mus. Cape 

 Town : cJ ? ), Transvaal (ex coll. Fry). 



Twelve examples seen, five of which are males : six from 

 Willowmore were captured by Dr. Brauns on Aug. 15th, 

 1902 ; four from Grootfontein, received at the British 

 Museum during the present year, are labelled as having been 

 found with H. cJijpeolus, Er. The simple anterior tarsi and 

 the relatively small head bring this species near H. hirtus, F. 

 ( = oculatvs, Thunb.)^ from which it is separable by the 

 sharply angulato-bivittate prothorax and the verrucose 

 elytra, the ^ with a black cephalic cavity and a non-cristate 

 prothorax. 



3. Hedybius billbergi. 



J. Malachiiis billbergi, Thunb. in Sclionherr's Syn. Ins. i. 2, p. 79 



(1806) '. 

 Hedybius elongatus, Er. Entomograpliien, p. 96 ( 2 ) (1840)". 



