504 M. JACOBY 



wrinkled, the sides with two more or less distinct costse, the 

 lateral margins and the abdomen llavous. 



Length 10-11 millim. 



Head strongly rugose, antennae extending beyond the middle 

 of the elytra, black, the third joint very elongate, the following 

 joints about one third shorter, thorax one half broader than 

 long, the sides strongly angulate at the middle, the disc with 

 a longitudinal sulcus at the middle, closely and irregularly ru- 

 gose, dark purplish, scutellum broad, elytra much wider at the 

 base than the thorax, the entire surface irregularly wrinkled, 

 punctured and rugose, with very short grey pubescence, the 

 lateral margins narrowly and the apex more broadly pale lla- 

 vous, the sides with two longitudinal ridges, the outer one of 

 which is much more strongly marked than the other and be- 

 ginning at the shoulders, ends at a little distance from the apex ; 

 legs slender, black, as w^ell as the breast, the base of the fe- 

 mora and the abdomen llavous, claws bifid, anterior cavities open. 



Moroka. 



PSEUDOSASTRA, gen. n. 



Body elongate, pubescent, head elongate, the clypeus not se- 

 parated from the face, eyes large and prominent, antennae fili- 

 form, long and slender, the second joint half the length of the 

 first, third joint very elongate, one half longer than the fol- 

 lowing joints, thorax transverse, the sides rounded, the anterior 

 angles slightly thickened and pointed, the disc deeply transver- 

 sely sulcate, the anterior edge of the sulcus much thickened, 

 elytra nearly parallel, closely pubescent, the apical angle pro- 

 duced into a small point, legs slender, unarmed, metatarsus of 

 the posterior legs elongate, claws bifid, presternum invisible 

 between the coxse, the anterior cotyloid cavities open. 



Type, P. sulcicollis Jac. (sub Sastra) Ann. Mus. Genoa, XXXYI, 

 1896, p. 464. 



This species cannot remain in the genus Sastra on account of 

 the entirely differently shaped and structured thorax, the sides 



