. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 478 Mr. G. C. Champion on broad median vitta (which is cleFt in front and obliquely biramose behind), black; the head and prothorax are opaque- and the elytra shining, the latter densely, finely punctate; the head is very large. The pygidium is feebly sulcate at tlie tip (as in some $ ? of ii/. marshalli), the groove being much shorter and shallower than in H. erosus and H. sulci- pygus. The type is labelled, in the author's handwriting, " Hedybius longicoccyx,^' the spec
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology. Natural history; Zoology; Botany; Geology. 478 Mr. G. C. Champion on broad median vitta (which is cleFt in front and obliquely biramose behind), black; the head and prothorax are opaque- and the elytra shining, the latter densely, finely punctate; the head is very large. The pygidium is feebly sulcate at tlie tip (as in some $ ? of ii/. marshalli), the groove being much shorter and shallower than in H. erosus and H. sulci- pygus. The type is labelled, in the author's handwriting, " Hedybius longicoccyx,^' the specific name obviously refer- ring to the shape of the broad prothoracic vitta, wdiich resembles that of H. erosus, Er., ^ ; the published name " lovgicuxis"" must therefore have been a misprint, but, un- fortunately, it cannot now be changed. 29. Hedybius kabetensis, sp. n. cJ . Elongate, widened posteriorly, shining, thickly clothed with cinereous pubescence which is abundantly intermixed ?with long, erect, soft, blackish hairs ; black, the antennae (except at the base and apex) testaceous, the prothorax flavous, the elytra with a bluish or greenish lustre, the ventral segments 1-4 wholly or in part rufescent; the head and prothorax extremely finely, the elytra densely, roughly punctate. Head (text-fig. 2) broadly hollowed above and with three large deep fovese between the eyes, two small fovcre in front of these, and a stout, angular, post-ocular Text-ti<j. 2. •. Head of Hedyhiiis kabetensis, cS . prominence on each side, the central fovea bordered poste- riorly by an arcuate ridge ; antennse moderately long, serrate. Prothorax transverse, a little Avider than the head, rounded at the sides, obliquely narrowed behind, transversely excavate anteriorly, and with the anterior margin produced in the middle into a long, triangular, dentiform, porrect process, the black hairs on the disc condensed into a scattered tuft behind the cavity in one specimen. Elytra mod
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