the African Species o/IIedybius. 483 



Graharastovvn, Giffcsberg, Saldanba Bay, KlipEouteiii, 

 Johannesburg, &c. 



A common S. African insect, the very long series 

 examined including tbe types ( ? ? ) of C. aulica and A. 

 rugipennis, two specimens ( $ ) of P. rugulosus from Willow- 

 more, and numerous examples ( J ? ) recently captured by 

 Mr. R. E. Turner in Cape Colony. Gorbam described tbe 

 anterior tarsi of tbe ($ of P. rujulosm as 4- jointed, possibly 

 owing to the third joint being concealed beneath the 

 superiorly-elongated second joint ; his description of the 

 head and antennae of that sex apply exactly to the species 

 before rae. A. rugipennis, type ? , has the protborax 

 wholly reddish, as in some of the females from Saldanba 

 Bay, Lion's Hill, and Table Mt. A metallic blue or greenish 

 insect, witb black antennse (the three basal joints in part 

 excepted) and legs, a partly or wholly rufescent, short pro- 

 thorax, and closely punctate, tuberculate elytra, the elytra 

 much widened posteriorly, with abundant silvery, sub- 

 fasciately- arranged pubescence, intermixed with erect 

 blackish bristly hairs. The head in the ^ is small, compared 

 with that of the allied forms. 



35. Hedybius (?) sericeus. 

 Philhedonus sericeus, Gorh. P. Z. S. 1905, ii. p. 277 ( $ ) \ 



Hah. S. Africa, Bothaville, Orange River Colony' {^Dr. 

 Brauns: Mus. Cape Town, Mus. Brit.), Pretoria {Mus. Brit.), 

 Klerkadorp (E. G. Alston, in Mus. Cape Toivn). 



Of this species I have seen seven examples : two from 

 Bothaville, two from Pretoria, and three from Kkrkadorp, 

 all ? ? . 



A rather broad, shining, cinereo-pubescent, cseruleous 

 insect, with a strongly transverse, red protborax (a narrow 

 scutiforra or wedge-shaped mark in the middle in front 

 excepted, this being obsolete in one of the specimens before 

 me), and black antennse (the testaceous lower surface of 

 joints 1-3 excepted) and legs ; the elytra closely, finely 

 punctate; the antennae short, rather stout, serrate. P. seri- 

 ceus is almost certainly congeneric with Hedybius uulicus, F., 

 and it is therefore provisionally transferred to tbe same 

 genus. 



36. Hedybius (?) ruJiventriS; sp. n. 



% . Elongate, much widened posteriorly, shining, thickly 

 clothed with whitish pubescence intermixed with long, erect, 



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