458 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Var. Hedi/bius elongatas, var. luteonotatus, Pic, L'Ecbange, xxvii. 



p. 157(J)(1911)\ 

 IleJybius sp. ?, Dixey & Ijongstaff, Trans. Eut. Soc. Loud. 1907, 



p.'380^ 



(J . Head (PI. XIII. fig. 5) broad, testaceous between and 

 before the eyes, black at the base, the epistoma metallic; 

 ■with a very deep oblique excavation on each side between the 

 eyes and a transverse one in the centre, tlie former bordered 

 externally by a very prominent oblique ridge and the central 

 one by two small tubercles in front. Antennse (PI. XIII. 

 fig. 5 a) long, joints 1-6 (except 1 above and the basal 

 half of 5) testaceous, 7-11 black, 2 short, 3 much longer 

 jind stouter, 4 shorter than 3, dentate within, 5 elongate, 

 abnormal, constricted at the middle, and with the basal 

 portion dentate within, 6 not longer than 4, subdentate, 

 7-11 elongate, 7-10 widened, subtriangular, 7 slightly 

 dentate at the tip within. Anterior tarsi simple. 



? . Head smaller, metallic ; antenna? short, rather 

 slender, joints 1-6 (except 1 above) more or less tes- 

 taceous. 



Hab. S. Africa, Blauwberg, Saldanha Uiver, and Kalk 

 Bay (Mus. Cape Town), Cape of Good Hope^^(J/MS. Brit.), 

 Rapenburg, Cape Flats {R. E. Turner : x. 1920), Simons 

 Bay^ ((r. B. Longstaff, in Mus. O.von.) ; E. Africa^ 



A long series of both sexes of this common Cape insect 

 has been lent me by Dr. Peringuey.. The c? is readily dis- 

 tinguished from the same sex of H. smaragdiilus by the 

 abnoriually formed, basally maculate antennae, and the 

 metallic epistoma ; the ? by the paler basal joints of the 

 antennae. Thunberg's type [^ ?) has paler tibiae and 

 tarsi, but no reliance need be placed on this character, the 

 tarsi, at least, being testaceous in some of the examples 

 before me. 



4. Hedybius smaragdulus. 

 Hedyhius smaragdidus, Er. Entomograpliien, p. 96 (d) (1840). 



^ . Head (PI. XIII, fig. 6) broad, bluish-black at the base, 

 for the rest (the labrum excepted) flavo-testaceous, deeply 

 excavate and transversely trifoveate in the middle, obliquely 

 raised on each side between the eyes, the flavous portion 

 smooth. Antennae (PI. XIII. fig. 6 a) long, black, joints 2-5 

 sometimes obscurely reddish, 2 very short, 3 and 4 mode- 

 rately elongate, subequal, 5 much longer than 4, 6 shorter, 

 not longer than 3, 7-11 elongate, 7-10 wider than the 

 preceding joints, subtriangular. Anterior tarsi simple. 



