464 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



a curved liook at the tip, the face large, tumid, truucato- 

 bidentate above, each tooth bifid at the apex ; prothorax 

 strongly transverse, metallic green, the anterior and lateral 

 margins narrowly, the basal margin rather broadly, testa- 

 ceous ; elytra green or bluish-green, densely ruguloseiy 

 punctured, subparallel ; abdomen metallic ; legs set with 

 very long hairs, testaceous, the posterior tibise to near the 

 tip, and the intermediate tibise at the base, black, the 

 posterior tarsi sometimes infuscate; anterior tarsal joints 

 1 and 2 imbricate, 2 nigro-pectinate at the tip. 



$ . Antennse sliort, rather slender, feebly sei'rate, testa- 

 ceous to near the tip; head angularly viridi-bimaculate at 

 the base. 



Length 5^-6^ mm. ( (^ ? .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope' {iype of Erichson : 

 ? ), Grootfontein, Middelburg (^Mus. Brit. : ^ ), Kimberley, 

 Prieska {Mus. Cape Town : c? ? )? Damara^ {types of Fair- 

 tnaire : (? ? ). 



Nine specimens of this species are before me : 5 ($ S and 

 4 ? $ . The latter agree with Erichson's description of 

 //. clypeolus (his type wanting the posterior legs), except 

 in their rather larger size, and the two sexes with Fair- 

 niaire's H. coi^onatus. The ^ anterior tarsi appear at first 

 sight to be 4-jointed, owing to the second joint being 

 articulated to the first near the base. The posterior tibiae 

 are in great part black in both sexes. The Grootfontein 

 examples were found with H. verrucosus upon a species of 

 Melanthus. Figs. 11, 11a (PI. Xill.) show the head from 

 in front and behind. 



13. Hedyhius lamelliger, sp. n. 



cJ . Elongate, subopaque, the elytra shining, clothed with 

 long, erect, black bristly hairs intermixed on the elytra 

 with an abundant M'hitish pubescence; head (the jnter- 

 ocular cavities and base excepted, which are black), antennae, 

 palpi, prothorax (the black fovea in front excepted), and 

 legs (except the intermediate tarsi in part, and the posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi entirely, which are infuscate) testaceous or 

 flavous ; scutellum, nietasternum, and abdomen metallic, 

 the elytra blue; the prothorax almost smooth, the head 

 very finely, the elytra densely, ruguloseiy punctured. Head 

 (PL XIII. fig. 12) broad, a little narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, long as seen from in front (owing to the broad 

 clypeus, and the vertical trifid face), with two large, black, 

 sharply-defined, plicate, subtriangular cavities between the 



