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Hedybius, Er. 



Some remarks on the synonymy of various Abyssinian and 

 S. African species have already been noted by mc^ and one 

 new one, ruficornis (No. 36«), added \_op.cit. (9) ix. p, 581]. 

 Iroglops me(/acephalus,}ioth. (1851), was omitted from the 

 synonyms of H.formosus, lieiche (1849) (sp. No. 8) ; H. 

 lividus, Gorh. (1883) (sp. No. 6) =H. (Troglops) luteus^ 

 lloth (1851). Another specimen (?) of the fasciate variety 

 of H. deliqiiescens (No. 22) has been received from Nyasa- 

 land (H. S. Stannus) . Three or four new species with simple 

 tarsi in (^ are added to the S. African list, and one of the 

 subgenus Hedybiinus to the E. African list. 



6 («). Hedybius leiicopterus, sp.n. 



? . Rather broad, shining, thickly clothed with soft, pallid, 

 erect hairs, without longer setae intermixed, the projecting 

 hairs on the tibiae very long ; pale testaceous, the elytra 

 dirty white, the eyes and mandibles black ; the head and 

 prothorax very sparsely, minutely, the elytra densely, finely 

 punctured. Head (with the eyes) about as broad as the 

 prothorax ; antennae moderately long, serrate. Prothorax 

 transverse, very convex, obliquely narrowed posteriorly, the 

 margins expanded. Elytra broader than the prothorax, 

 subparallel, rounded at the apex. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. E. Africa, Kabete {H. E. Bow: iii., v. 1922). 



Two ? $ . A close ally of the Abyssinian H. luteus, Roth 

 (^ = lividus, Gorh.), differing from it in the denser and finer 

 puncturing of the elytra, the latter clothed with shorter hairs. 

 The Rhodesian H. albipennis, Gorh., has intermixed long- 

 black setae on the elytra. All these insects have the general 

 facies of a pallid Clythrid. 



9 [a] . Hedybius ati'Gcaveatus, sp. n. 



c^ . Moderately elongate, narrow, rather convex, shining, 

 finely cinereo-pubescent ; black, the antennal joints 1-4 

 (except 1 above), tibiae, and tarsi testaceous, the base of the 

 head, the prothorax, and elytra with a metallic or violaceous 

 lustre, the elytra each with a broad, outwardly widened, 

 submedian, orange fascia (extending to the outer margin, but 

 not reaching the suture) ; the head at the base and the 

 prothorax minutely, the elytra finely closely punctured. 



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