482 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



raised, transversely-cordate, deeply bifoveate space in the 

 middle, the lateral margins of which are sometimes elevated 

 into a small tooth behind; pygidium constricted at the 

 apex, and there armed with two long, curved, black spines, 

 the terminal ventral segment with two similar spines ; 

 anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending over 

 the base of 3, black at the tip. 

 Length 2|-3.i mm. ( c? ? •) 



Hub. S. Africa, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Dr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall: i. 1895, ii. 1906). 



Five c? (?, 3 ? ? . A small form, with testaceous head, 

 prothorax, and legs, and bluish-green elytra; the male with 

 a transversely-cordate, bifoveate, raised area in the middle 

 of the head, followed by a deep subarcuate groove, and the 

 tip of the abdomen armed with four long black spines. The 

 aiitennsQ vary in colour, and in one S there is a scutiform 

 dark patch on the disc of the prothorax. The S cephalic 

 structure is very like that of H. simoni, Ab, 



34. Hedijbius aulicus. 



2 . Cistela aulica, Fabr. Spec. lus. i. p. 148 (1781) ^. 



Hechjhms aulicus, Blair, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) v. p. 162 (1920)-. 



Can'tharis coUaris, Tliuiib. Dissert, iii. p. 203 ', 



Hedybius collaris, Er. Entomograpliieu, p. 95 ( c? $ ) (1840) \ 



Attains riKjipennis, Ab. de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. xix. pp. 1G4, 174 ($ ) 



(1900) ■\ 

 ? riiilhedonus rngulosus, Gorh. P.Z. S. 1905, ii. p. 278 ( (5' J ) \ 

 Hedi/bins sp. ?, Dixey and Longstaff, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond, 1907, 



p.'378^ 

 ? Hedybius atripes, Pic, Melanges exot.-entom. xxv. p. 2 (1917) ^ 



(5* . Antennae long, rather stout, sharply serrate ; head 

 (PL XIV. fig. 30) rather small, black, the space between the 

 labrum and epistoma ( = clypeus of Erichson) testaceous, 

 the vertex with a very deep, smooth, transverse, somewhat 

 obli({ue furrow on each side, the two furrows coalescent and 

 extending forwards for a short distance at the middle, and 

 each bordered anteriorly by a curved ridge; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 tliickened, 2 extending over 3 above; pro- 

 thorax short, with a black patch of variable extent on the 

 anterior part of the disc. 



$ . Antennae short, rather slender, more feebly serrate ; 

 head about as broad as in (^, slightly depressed, in the 

 middle ; prothorax often wholly rufous. 



Hub. S. Africa, Cape of Good Hope^^*^ Oype of Fubri- 

 cius, in Mus. Brit.), Lion's Head, Cape Town^, Table Mt.'^, 

 Dunbrody, Willowmore*', Ceres, Camps Bay, Port Elizabeth, 



