270 Annalx of the South African Museum. 



more robust body, much more rounded and differently sculptured 

 prothorax and more elongated foveae on the elytra. 



Length 134- mm. ; width 5j mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). G. F. Leigh. 



GEN. PEKICHILUS, Qued. 

 PEEICHILUS DITISSIMUS, n. sp. 



Head and prothorax bronze-green variegated with purple patches,, 

 and with the margins of the latter purplish ; elytra with the base, 

 the second costa as far as the median patch, another patch extending 

 on the fourth, fifth, and sixth costae from the base to about one-third 

 of the length, and a median and a post-median transverse band 

 merging with the second costa, coppery purple ; legs cyaneous, under 

 side purple or violaceous ; head deeply punctate, the arcuate frontal 

 furrow very plain, eyes broadly separated ; antennae black, short, 

 not reaching beyond the median part of the prothorax, the first seven 

 joints short, not wider than long, of nearly equal length except the 

 third which is only slightly longer than the fourth, the eighth is a 

 little dilated but smaller than the ninth and tenth, the ultimate one 

 is not very much longer than the tenth and rounded at the tip ; 

 prothorax nearly straight laterally, but rounded and attenuated in 

 the anterior part, lateral margin fine, basal one grooved, surface 

 covered with somewhat deep, round punctures somewhat irregularly 

 scattered but equi-distant, and with smooth intervals ; scutellum 

 short, rounded at the tip, and punctate ; elytra cylindrical, but 

 slightly sinuate laterally, and also slightly ampliate past the middle, 

 and having seriate rows of somewhat broad, deep punctures 

 separated by a very small interval, the first and second intervals on 

 each side of the suture are costulate for a short distance, sharply 

 raised from base to apex, the others are not highly costate, and even 

 in some examples are not raised in the median part ; abdomen and 

 pectus deeply and coarsely punctured ; legs also deeply and coarsely 

 punctured. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 3-3i mm. 



Hab. Natal (Eshowe). Transvaal (Lydenburg District). Pretoria 

 Museum. 



GEN. NANNOCEKUS, Fairm. 

 XAXNOCERUS ANGUSTULUS, n. sp. 



Obscurely cyaneous, the elytra with a coppery sheen ; head 

 closely punctate, the punctures on the posterior part rounder and 



