the African Species o/Hedybius. 461 



8. Hedybius formosus. 



3Ialachius formoms, Reiche, in Galinier'a Voyage Abyss., Ins. p. 290, 



t. 17. fig. 8. 

 Hedybius formosus, Gorli. Ann. Mus.Geuova, xviii. pp. 597, 598 (cj 5 ) 



Hedi/bius formosus, var. bi-internipta, Pic, L'Ecliange, xxvi. p. 5 

 (1910), 



cJ . Head (PI. XIII. fig. 8) flavoiis, very broad, wider than 

 the prothorax, the inter-ocular excavation deep, sharply 

 defined, divided by a strong, sinuous, transverse ridge, and 

 bordered laterally by an angular, externally-convex, vertical, 

 supra-ocular elevation, the excavation with a small, smooth, 

 triangular cavity in the middle, in front of which is a short 

 convex plica ; antennpe rather slender, long, serrate ; pro- 

 thorax angularly dilated laterally, the margins strongly 

 re flexed ; anterior tarsi simple, 5-jointed ; pygidium 

 testaceous. 



$ . Head not so wide, flattened, black in its basal half; 

 antennae more slender, short; pygidium black ; prothorax 

 less angulate at the sides. 



Hab. Abyssinia {Mus, Genoa; Mus. Brit.). 



One (J and two ? ? seen. There appears to be a long 

 series of it in the Genoa Museum. H. Ihnbatipennis, Pic 

 (1914), from the same country, is said to be near the 

 present species. 



9. Hedybius maculifer. 



$. Malachins himaculatus, Boh. Ins. Caffraria, i. p. 465 (1851) (nee 



Ericlison, 1840) \ 

 Hedybius (?) maculifer, Ab. de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. xix. pp. 164, 174 



($)(1900)^ 



(J . Head (PL XIII. fig. 9) as wide as the prothorax, testa- 

 ceous in its anterior half, very deeply, transversely arcuato- 

 excavate between the eyes, the excavation obliquely plicate 

 on each side in front, extended in the middle anteriorly, 

 and with a small raised point in the centre; antennae 

 short, rather stout, moderately serrate, joints 1-4 testa- 

 ceous beneath ; anterior tarsi 5-jointed, simple. 

 ? . Head black, flattened. 



Hab. S. Africa (Mus. Cape I'own), River Limpopo^, 

 Hamman's Kraal, near Pretoria^. 



Dr. Peringuey has lent me the type ( $ ) o£ i7. maculifer^ 

 Ab., and also two males of the same species. The former 

 agrees well with the description of H. bimaculatus, Boh,, 

 the type of w hich must be ? . A small (length 3-3|^ mm.), 



