488 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



margin ; the head and prothorax sparsely, minnlely, tlie 

 elytra densely, finely punctate. Head much narrower tlian 

 the prothorax ; a)itenn!fi moderately long, feebly serrate. 

 Prothorax transverse, convex, rounded at the sides. Elytra 

 widened posteriorly. 



(J . Antenuse much longer, rather stout,, strongly serrate ; 

 liead (PI. XIV. fig. 34) wider, transversely excavate above, 

 and -with a smooth fovea on each side behind the eyes, the 

 excavation bituberculate within, its anterior margin deeply 

 trisinuate and also tuberculate in the middle ; prothorax 

 very broad, transversely subquadrate, nodose near each liind 

 angle; elytra siibparallel, about as broad as the prothorax, 

 with a prominent, oblique humeral carina; anterior tarsal 

 joints 1 and 2 slightly thickened, 2 raised above the base of 3. 



Lengtii 2^-3 mm. ( r^ ? .) 



IJab. S. Africa, D:irling, Cape Colony (L. Peringuey, in 

 Mils. Cape Toivn : x.1905). 



One male, five females. A very peculiar, isolated form, 

 provisionally included under Hedybius, the ? having the 

 facies of a typical Attains^ the S with remarkable characters. 



Philhedonus. 



rhilhedomis, Gorliam, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 82 (1900) [type 



P. coronatus, Gorh.]. 

 Hedyhiocephahis, Pic, L'Echauge, xix. p. 144 (1903). 



These genera are each based upon a single species with 

 4-jointed anterior tarsi in (J , Fic's type having a broader 

 liead and aTigulate sides to the prothorax in the same sex, 

 characters insufiicient for generic separation, similar specific 

 difterences occurring amongst the numerous Hedybli "^ . 



1. Philhedonus coronatns. 



Pkilheclonus coronatns, Gorh. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 82 

 (c? $)(1900) (necFiiirm.). 



(J. Antennffi short (as in ? ), rather stout, moderately 

 serrate ; head (Fl. XIV. fig. 35) much narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, flattened, rugulose, opaque, with four arcuately- 

 arranged, compressed tubercles extending across the vertex ; 

 prothorax angularly produced in the centre in front, and 



* There is another allied monotypic S. African Malachiid genus with 

 4-jointed anterior tarsi in S — Colpometopus, Ab., type pithecus, Ab. 

 (1900) (= Tro(/lopshasicorm's,¥aiYm.,189i), — but this insect has the head 

 and antennse dil^erently formed, an apterous $ , &c. 



