the Ajrican Species of l\^i\y\A\\s. 467 



? . Antennse short, rather slender, testaceous ; head with 

 an anteriorly-bilobed black mark on each side at the base ; 

 prothorax sliining, rounded at the sides, with twocoalesceut 

 obloiig black spots on the disc ; pj'gidium testaceous, some- 

 times ubsoletely sulcate at tip and with a small black sj)ot on 

 each side. 



Hah. S. Africa, Estcourt i, Natal {Mus. Brit.: J ? ), 

 Port Natal 2, Mpanzi Mvoti {Mus. Durban : ? ). 



Six (J <S and five ? ? seen, the latter corresponding 

 with the description of H. inarmatus, Pic. The males have 

 two black angular elevations on each side of the head, and 

 a laterallj'-notched prothorax, the disc of which is almost 

 covered by a very large, triangular, opaque, black patch. 

 The head is nigro-maculate on each side at the base in both 

 sexes. The two small spots on the pygidium and the apical 

 depression are conspicuous in one of the females from 

 Estcourt. 



16. Hedyb'ms curvidens, sp. n. 



c^" . Elongate, shining, clothed with pallid or whitish 

 pubescence intermixed on the elytra with erect, black, bristly 

 hairs ; antennae (PI. Xllf. fig. 15 b) about as long as the 

 body, moderately stout, tapering outwards, joints 1-6 (a 

 black line on 1 above, and on 1-5 beneath, excepted) testa- 

 ceous, for the rest black, 3 and 4 short, 4 triangular, longer 

 and wider than 3, 5 elongate, twice the length of 4 and 

 broader than 5, parallel-sided, 6-10 elongate-subtriaugular; 

 head (PI. XIII. figs. 15, 15 a) broad, flavous, the base, eyes, 

 and median cavity black, the cavity very deep, broad, opaque 

 within, and limited anteriorly by an irregular V-shaped 

 ridge, in front of which are three fovese, the flavous raised 

 walls of the excavation curving backwards on each side 

 above the eyes and terminating in a stout, sinuate, sharp 

 tooth; prothorax transversely subquadrate, dentate at the 

 sides behind the middle, the lateral margins obliquely 

 reflexed and ciliate anteriorly, the dorsal black patch very 

 large, scutiform, dentate in the middle behind, the rest of 

 the surface testaceous ; elytra subparallel, blue, densely, 

 rugulosely punctured ; metasternum metallic ; abdomen and 

 legs (except the tarsi of the intermediate pair, and the bases 

 of the tibiae, apices of the femora, and tarsi of the posterior 

 pair, which are black) testaceous ; anterior tarsal joints 1 

 and 3 thickened, 2 raised abot^e the base of 3, black at the 

 tip. 



$ . Antennae short, rather slender, joints 1-5 (a darker 



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