the Africayi Species of llftdyhlna. 479 



beyond the middle, the })roduced apical portion deeply sub- 

 triangularly emarginate at the tip, and raised on each side 

 f roui near its base. Anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 

 2 extending over the base of 3. 



? . Autennre almost wholly black; pygidium not con- 

 stricted posteriorly, simple. 



Length 41 mm. ( cJ ? .) 



Hub. E. Africa, Kabete (T. J. Anderson: 28. ii. 1918). 



Two pairs. Near H. hamatipygus, from Rliodesia and the 

 Transvaal, the elytra densely, roughly punctured, and the 

 legs black ; the ^ with antennee almost wholly testaceous, 

 the frontal cavity deeply trifoveate, and the pygidium black 

 and very differently shaped. H. cucullatus and //. acantho- 

 ptjyus are also nearly related to the present insect. Attains 

 grandis, Ab., from Abyssinia (type ? ?) (1890), a ? of 

 which, found by Haffray, is before me, will perhaps prove 

 to be congeneric, when the ^ is found. 



30. Hedybius sulcipygus, sp. u. 



? . Moderately elongate, rather broad, widened poste- 

 riorly, shining, the elytra clothed with whitish pubescence 

 intermixed with long, erect, blackish bristly hairs, the rest 

 of the surface and the legs with long, soft, paUid hairs ; 

 testaceous, the eyes, two small oblong spots on the disc of 

 the prothorax, scutellum, anterior coxae, and pygidium in- 

 fuscate or black; the head and prothorax very sparsely, 

 minutely, the elytra densely, finely, subrugulosely punctate. 

 Head nearly as wide as the prothorax, transversely excavate 

 anteriorly ; antennae short, slender. Prothorax strongly 

 transverse, rounded at the sides. Elytra moderately lor.g. 

 Pygidium sulcate. 



Length 3| mm. 



Hab. S. AriucA, Salisbury [Dr. G. A. K. Marshall). 



One specimen. Separable from all the allied S. African 

 forms by the wholly testaceous head. The only other 

 species known to me with a sulcate pygidium are H. erusus, 

 Er., and H, longicoxis, Ab., which are much larger forms, 

 the former having more coarsely punctured elytra. 

 H. (Malachius) viridlpennis, F., from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, a species not identified by Erichson or myself, has a 

 red head, but its identification with the insect before me is 

 too doubtful to be accepted ; the description is as follows : — 

 "■ M. pubescens rufus elytris pectoreque viridi-seneis. . . . 

 Statura omnino praecedentium [Collups 4i-maculatus, F.]. 

 Caput rufum, immaculatum. Thorax rufus macula mcdiana 



