486 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



antennse infuscate. The general coloration is very like that 

 of various species of Urodactylus, Thorns. { = Mixis, Ab,), 

 and of Philhedonus [Anthocomus) felix, Gorh. 



40. Hedybius erichsoni. 

 5 . Malac.hius erichsofii, Boh. Ins. Caffraria, i. p. 4o9 (1851). 



? . Elongate, robust, widened posteriorly, shining, clothed 

 with fine scattered pubescence intermixed with numerous 

 long, erect, blackish, bristly liairs ; nigro-cseruleous or viola- 

 ceous, the elytra each with a broad, outwardly-dilated, ante- 

 median, orange-red fascia (not reaching the suture, but 

 extending to the outer margin), the anteunre and legs black 

 or metallic ; the head and prothorax very sparsely, finely (at 

 the sides more coarsely), the elytra coarsely, closely, rugu- 

 losely punctate. Head short, narrower than the prothorax, 

 deeply, transversely excavate anteriorly ; antennoe moderately 

 long, rather stout, tapering. Prothorax strongly transverse, 

 rounded at the sides, obliquely narrowed posteriorly. Elytra 

 at the base slightly broader than the prothorax. 



(^ . Antennse longer and stouter, rapidly tapering from 

 joint 4 onward, 1-3 testaceous beneath, 3-5 oblongo- 

 quadrate, 3 a little longer and wider than 4; head (PI. XIV. 

 fig. 32) with two stout conical tubercles between the eyes, 

 and a very deep, large, trapezoida] excavation in front of 

 this, in the centre of which is a horn-like prominence, the 

 excavation extending to the vertical anterior margin of 

 the epistoma ; eyes convex and more prominent ; anterior 

 tarsal joints 1 and 2 thickened, 2 extending to beyond the 

 middle of 3 above. 



Length 4-5^ mm. ( c? ? .) 



Hab. S. Africa, Pretoria {Mus. Brit.: c? ? ), Shiluwane, 

 Potchefstrom (Mus. Cape Toiun : c? ? ), Salisbury (Dr. 

 G. A. K. Marshall^ Mus. Cape Town), River Gariep (type of 

 Boheman), Zambesi and Transvaal [ex coll. F?'y). 



Redescribed from 2 c? c? and 12 ? ? . This insect is 

 coloured like the much smaller H. maculifer, Ab. { = bimacu- 

 latus, Boll., nee Er.), the c? of "which has simple anterior 

 tarsi, shoi't antenna,, and a non-tuberculate head. The 

 elytral puncturing is coarse. The (J -cephalic cavity is 

 shaped as in H. 4<-(/uttatus, Thunb., except that it is not 

 continued backward on each side. A co-type ( ? ) has been 

 lent me by Dr. Sj<">stodt. 



