276 Annals of the South African Museum. 



PRAOGENA GLORIOSA, n. sp. 



Piceous-red, with the femora red, elytra greenish-blue ; head punc- 

 tulate ; prothorax slightly rounded laterally, closely punctate with 

 the intervals smooth ; elytra narrowly costate with the intervals 

 filled from the base to the median part with wide, almost foveate 

 punctures impinging on the much-reduced costse, from the median 

 part to the apex these punctures resume their usual shape, and the 

 costse are very sharp. 



The sculpture of the elytra closely resembles that of Lamprobothris 

 fossnlata, Miill. ; the shape of the elytra is, however, that of 

 Praogena. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg). Pretoria Museum. 



PRAOGENA TIMIDA, n. sp. 



Piceous, elytra and legs piceous-brown, the former without metallic 

 tinge, but very shining ; antennae very long, chestnut-brown ; head 

 and prothorax closely punctulate, the latter is slightly ampliate and 

 rounded laterally, and more attenuate towards the basal part than 

 towards the anterior, there is a very faint, longitudinal impunctate 

 line in the centre of the disk, and a conspicuous round impression 

 on each side : elytra of the normal shape, sharply costate for two- 

 thirds of the length, and the striae very deeply punctate for the same 

 length, the intervals are impunctate. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 31 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). J. L. Drege. 



The shape of the antennal joints of this species are very much 

 like those of Dyscjcna. 



GEN. DYSGENA, Makl. 

 DYSGENA DURBANIA, n. sp. 



Dark chestnut-brown, elytra with a metallic tinge, and covered on 

 the upper surface with a long greyish pubescence, which is shorter and 

 more appressed underneath, as well as on the legs ; head deeply and 

 contiguously punctured, eyes transverse ; antennae slender, third 

 joint slightly longer than the fourth ; prothorax roundly ampliated 

 laterally and with the lateral marginal keel hardly visible, moderately 

 convex but plainly depressed longitudinally in the centre, and very 

 roughly shagreened ; scutellum triangular ; elytra sinuate laterally, 

 only moderately acuminate behind, deeply striate with the punctures- 



