472 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



21. Hedybius lineaticornis, sp. n. 



(^' . Antennffi stout, tapering, nearly as long as tlie ho(\j, 

 joints 1-11 more or less distinctly nigro- or fusco-liueate 

 above, 3 and 4 triangular, each with a shining black area 

 beneath, 4 broader and slightly longer than 3, 5-10 elon- 

 gate-subtriangular ; head (PI. XIV. fig. 20) broad, flavescent, 

 transversely, sinuately nigro-lineate within the median 

 cavity and black at the base, the excavation deep, pubescent, 

 and divided by a transverse pallid plica, the anterior walls 

 of the cavity curving backwards on each side over the eyes 

 and enclosing an oval depression behind ; prothorax testa- 

 ceous, with two confluent oblong black spots on the disc, the 

 transverse patch thus formed dentate in the middle behind ; 

 elytra and metasternum green or bluish-green, the former 

 densely punctured ; abdomen and legs testaceous ; anterior 

 tarsal joint 2 slightly produced over the base of 3, black at 

 the tip. 



? . Antennae short, rather slender, joints 6-11 infuscate 

 towards their apices ; head black in its basal half ; pygidium 

 black. 



Length 3t-4| mm. (<??•) 



Hab. Orange River Colony, Bloemfontein Kopje and 

 near Nervals Pont (E. B. Poulton : ix. 1905), Likhoele, 

 Basutoland, and Smithfield, O.R.C. [Mus. Cape Toivn). 



The above descrij^tion is taken from three pairs captured 

 by Prof. Poulton, a pair from Likhoele, and two males from 

 Smithfield. Pic's " description abregee "" of H. atropygus 

 (1917), type $ , from Orange River, may apply to this 

 species or to H. amcenus, the black p3^gidium being common 

 to the females of these and other allied forms; but in the 

 absence of the ($ it would be impossible to locate his 

 insect with certainty. 



22. Hedybius deliquescens, sp. n. 



Iledyhius amcenus, Gorh. Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. (7) v. p. 80 ( cT ) 

 (part.) (1900) \ 



(J . Antennae (PI. XIV. fig. 21 a) long, shorter than in 

 H. amcenus, stout, tapering outwards, testaceous, joints 3-6 

 or 7 nigro-lineate above, 3 and 4 without shining black area 

 beneath, 3 a little narrower than 4, 4-8 somewhat rounded 

 on their inner edge (4-8 not subangulate at the aj)ex as in 

 H. amanus) ; head (PI. XIV. fig. 21) broad, testaceous, 

 except at the base, very deeply excavate between the eyes, the 

 excavation with two shining, angular, black spaces and a 



