478 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



broad median vitta (which is cleFt in front and obliquely 

 biramose behind), black; the head and prothorax are opaque- 

 and the elytra shining, the latter densely, finely punctate ; 

 the head is very large. The pygidium is feebly sulcate at tlie 

 tip (as in some $ ? of ii/. marshalli), the groove being 

 much shorter and shallower than in H. erosus and H. sulci- 

 pygus. The type is labelled, in the author's handwriting, 

 " Hedybius longicoccyx,^' the specific name obviously refer- 

 ring to the shape of the broad prothoracic vitta, wdiich 

 resembles that of H. erosus, Er., ^ ; the published name 

 " lovgicuxis"" must therefore have been a misprint, but, un- 

 fortunately, it cannot now be changed. 



29. Hedybius kabetensis, sp. n. 



cJ . Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining, thickly clothed 

 with cinereous pubescence which is abundantly intermixed 

 ■with long, erect, soft, blackish hairs ; black, the antennae 

 (except at the base and apex) testaceous, the prothorax 

 flavous, the elytra with a bluish or greenish lustre, the 

 ventral segments 1-4 wholly or in part rufescent ; the head 

 and prothorax extremely finely, the elytra densely, roughly 

 punctate. Head (text-fig. 2) broadly hollowed above and 

 with three large deep fovese between the eyes, two small 

 fovcre in front of these, and a stout, angular, post-ocular 



Text-ti<j. 2. • 



Head of Hedyhiiis kabetensis, cS . 



prominence on each side, the central fovea bordered poste- 

 riorly by an arcuate ridge ; antennse moderately long, 

 serrate. Prothorax transverse, a little Avider than the head, 

 rounded at the sides, obliquely narrowed behind, transversely 

 excavate anteriorly, and with the anterior margin produced 

 in the middle into a long, triangular, dentiform, porrect 

 process, the black hairs on the disc condensed into a scattered 

 tuft behind the cavity in one specimen. Elytra moderately 

 elongate. Pygidium constricted and abruptly narrowed 



