the African Species 0/ Hedybias. 489 



there furnished with an erect, matted, dentiform tuft of 

 liciirs ; anterior tarsi 4-joiutedj 1 and 2 long, 2 simple. 



Hub. Rhodesia, Salisbury. 



Seven males and two females seen. A robust, elongate 

 insect, with the head, antennae (the testaceous basal joints 

 excepted^, Iegs,^nd under surface bUick ; the prothorax red, 

 a transverse black patch or two spots on the disc excepted ; 

 the elytra long, widened behind, blue or bluish-green, finely 

 punctured, pilose ; the antennse short in both sexes. The 

 head and prothorax are relatively smaller than in the similarly 

 coloured Hedyhii. Gorham suggests that the angular 

 anterior production of the cJ prothorax is a stridulating- 

 organ, but this cannot be the case. 



2. Philhedonus natalicus, sp. n. 



^ . Moderately elongate, much widened posteriorly, the 

 head dull, the prothorax opaque, the elytra shining, clothed 

 with fine pubescence intermixed with long hairs; black, 

 the antennae in part, prothorax, and anterior legs (the 

 bases of the femora excepted) testaceous or rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; the head closely, minutely, the elytra finely and rather 

 sparsely, punctured, the prothorax almost smooth. Head 

 (PI. XIV. fig. 86) short, narrower than the prothorax, 

 flattened and imeven between the eyes, the vertex transversely 

 sinuato-excavate, the groove limited anteriorly by an angn- 

 late ridge, which is triangularly produced backward in the 

 centre ; antennse short, rather stout, subserrate. Prothorax 

 transverse, rounded at the sides, convex, angularly extended 

 forward in the middle in front. Elytra comparatively short, 

 depressed on the disc below the base. Anterior tarsi 

 4-iointed. 



? . Antennae shorter and more slender ; head and pro- 

 thorax shining, the former smoother and simply flattened, 

 the latter not produced in the middle in front. 



Length 3|-4 mm. ( c? ? .) 



Hab. Natal, Malvern {Miis. Cape Toivn). 



One pair. Much smaller and less elongate than P. coro- 

 natus, Gorh.jthe head of the ^ simply angulato-carinate and 

 excavate on the vertex, without tubercles, the prothorax 

 immaculate, the elytra rather short, more finely punctured, 

 the anterior legs in great part testaceous. The opaque 

 surface of the prothorax of J" may be due to immaturity. 



