the African Species of Hedyblus. 477 



4 without black area beneath ; head (except in front and 

 behind the eyes) in great part bhick, broad, the inter-ocular 

 space very deeply eroso-excavate, the excavation shining, 

 with a testaceous mark (which is flavo-ciliate behind) in the 

 middle in front, and limited on each side posteriorly by a stout 

 angular prominence, the epistoma sulcate (PI. XIV. fig. 26) ; 

 })rothorax testaceous, with a spot beneath the anterior 

 angles, a broad, laterally-excised, posteriorly-bifurcate 

 median vitta, and a small spot on each side of it (these 

 sometimes coalescent with the median stripe) black, the 

 lateral margins in some specimens distinctly notched behind 

 the middle ; elytra and metasternum green or bluish-green, 

 the elytra densely, rugulosely, rather finely punctate ; legs 

 and abdomen in great part testaceous, the pygidium nigro- 

 bimaculate and deeply sulcate ; anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 

 thickened, 2 raised above the base of 3, black at the tip. 



$ . Antennpe short, rather slender, wholly testaceous ; 

 head flattened, testaceous, nigro-bimaculate at the base ; 

 prothorax with the black median vitta broken up into two 

 oblong patches on the anterior part of the disc and two 

 small spots near the base (the latter sometimes obsolete), 

 the adjacent spots wanting ; pygidium black, deeply sulcate 

 as in ^ . 



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



Hab. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope^, Matjesfontein *, 

 Lion's Head, Cape Town, Willowmore, Dunbrody '', Smith- 

 field, Orange Kiver Colony, Likhoele, Basutoland. 



An imperfectly known insect, distinguishable in both 

 sexes by the deeply sulcate pygidium. Dr. Peringuey has 

 lent me paired examples of H. eru.sus and the unique type 

 (?) of If. sycophanta, the ? $ agreeing perfectly inter se. 

 H. midtimacnJatus (ty}>e $ ) has two small additional spots 

 at the base of the prothorax. The series in the Cape Town 

 Museum includes six males. 



28. Hedybius longicoxis. 



Hedyhivs lon(jicoxis, Ab. de Perrin, Eev. d'Eut. xix. pp. 164, 172 ( 5 ) 

 (1900). 



Hab. S. Africa, Pretoria. 



This species, the type (?) of which is before me, seems to 

 be nearly related to H. erosus, Er. It has the head, antennae 

 (the extreme tip excepted), prothorax, coxcc, legs, and 

 abdomen (the nigro-fasciate pygidium excepted) flavous, the 

 elytra and metasternum bluish-green ; the head with two 

 very large patches at the base, and the prothorax with a 



