the African Species o/Hedybius. 459 



? . Head smaller, metallic ; antennae short, rather slender, 

 joints 6 and 7 subequal. 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope (Mas. Brit., coll. 

 Fry), Cape Town, Blauwberg, Saldanha Bay {Mus. Cape 

 Town), Rapenburg {R. E. Turner : x. 1920). " 



I have seen numerous examples of this species, including 

 ten males. It occurs with the much commoner H. billbergi, 

 and is distinguishable therefrom by the smooth, flavous epi- 

 stoma, and the normally-formed antennae (joint 5 being 

 simply elongated) of the ^ . The red space on the anterior 

 part of the prothorax is perhaps more strongly bilobed 

 posteriorly than in H. billbergi. Three smaller females from 

 Cape Town (^Peringuey), nigro-seneous in colour, thickly 

 clothed with whitish pubescence and long, erect, darker 

 hairs, with more densely rugulose elytra, and the anterior 

 and posterior margins of the prothorax very narrowly tes- 

 taceous, may represent another allied species ? 



5. Hedybius variicornis. 



Hedt/bius variicornis, Bob. Ins. Caffraria, i. p. 467 ( d" $ ) (1851) ^ ; Gorh. 



Ami. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vii. p. 369 ( c? $ ) (1901) ^ ; P. Z. S. 1905, 



p. 277 ^. 

 Hedybius fasciculatus, Ab. de Periin, Rev. d'Ent. xix. pp. 164, 173 



(d $ ) (1900) * ; Pic, L'Echange, xxiii. p. 131 (1907) \ 



S . Antennae long, moderately stout, variable in colour, 

 usually with the basal four or five joints testaceous — a 

 shining black spot or streak on the upper surface of 1 and 2, 

 or on 2 only (wanting in one Natal ^), excepted, — the other 

 joints infuscate or black, 3 and 4 immaculate beneath, 

 equal, 5-11 elongate; head (PI. XTII. fig. 7) about as broad 

 as the prothorax, flavous in front, the base and inter-ocular 

 excavation black, the latter deep, bifoveate and obliquely 

 plicate within, bordered on each side by a small angular 

 elevation, and bearing a matted or scattered tuft of 

 long, erect, black hairs in the middle ; prothorax, apical half 

 of abdomen, and legs (except the tarsi and posterior femora 

 in some specimens) testaceous or rufo-testaceous ; elytra 

 blue or green, densely punctured ; anterior tarsi simple. 



? . Antennse short, rather slender, varying in colour as 

 in (J ; head with the basal half black; pygidium bhick. 



Hab. S. Africa, River Gariep ^ ; Salisbury ^ ^, Lonely, and 

 Mwengwa, Rhodesia: Makapan*, Bulawayo^ Transvaal; 

 Malvern, Frere, and Estcourt, Natal; Nyasaland. 



I have seen about eighty examples of this species, in- 

 cluding the types of Boheman and Abeille de Perrin, twenty 



