78 Transactions South African PliilosopJiical Socicti/. [vol. xii. 



Pachysomia .i-:sculapius, Oliv., 

 Plate XXX., fig. 10; Plate XXXVII. , tig. 32. 

 Entom., i., 3, p. 154, pi. xxiv., fig. 207. 



P. barbaium, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petv., 1818, p. 409. 



P. cristatum, Fabr., Ent. Syst., i., p. 62; Syst. EL, i., p. 51. 



P. validuvi, Bohem., Ins. Caftrar., ii., p. 180. 



Black, opaque, or very little shining ; head rugose, basal part of the 

 head and of the lateral lobes slightly granular, the whole margin 

 fringed with l^lack or l^lackish brown liairs ; prothorax also fringed 

 laterally and at base with dense, long hairs, closely serrulate on the 

 sides, and with the base punctato - serrulate, moderately convex, 

 shagreened, and covered with small granules somewhat closely set 

 in the anterior and median part, there is a short sub-median im- 

 pressed longitudinal hne in the centre of the disk ; elytra rotund, 

 sharply marginate all round with the margin slightly grooved late- 

 rally for two-thirds of the length, rugose, broadly striate with the 

 intervals a little raised and having a faint trace of a median hne, 

 striee with very indistinct, inconspicuous somewhat seriate granules; 

 pygidium granulose; legs strong, fringed with very dense black hau's, 

 anterior femora distinctly granulose beneath, anterior tibiffi very 

 strongly quadri-dentate outwardly and closely and strongly serrate 

 from the base to the basal tooth, as well as between the outer teeth; 

 metasternum and sides granulose, and having a short, sub-lanceolate 

 impression close to the intermediate cotyloid cavities ; abdominal 

 segments with a transverse series of granules, except the last one, 

 which is more densely sprinkled with them. 



Length 26 mm. ; width 28 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape District, Somerset West, Tulbagh). 



I have seen one of Boheman's co-type of P. validnni, and I cannot 

 detect any difference with the present species. 



Pachysoma hippocbates, McLeay, 



Plate XXXYIL, p. 31. 

 Hor. Entomol., i., 2, 1821, p. 507. 

 Eacies of preceding species, Init larger and proportionally more 

 robust ; black, shining on the prothorax ; head rugose but punctu- 

 late in the anterior part of the clypeus the basal lobes of which are 

 entirely granulose, basal part of head also granulose ; prothorax 

 serrulate laterally and with the base also serrulate ; the sides are 

 fringed with very long and dense fulvous hairs, the disk is covered 

 with closely set, deep punctures, and has a median smooth line 



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