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First interval with three series of punctures from the base 

 to the median part ; clypeus deeply emarginate and with 

 the angles a little recurved confcn-mis. 



All intervals with two series of punctures ; clypeus den- 

 ticulate segregis. 



Fourth and sixth intervals only with two series of punc- 

 tures, ninth interval carinate and tuberculate alternans. 



Fourth and sixth intervals only with two series of punc- 

 tures, ninth interval not tuberculate ; clypeus distinctly 

 dentiform on each side of the. emargination sobrina. 



Pedaria tuberculata, Casteln., 



Plate XXXI., fig. 13. 

 Hist. Natur. d. Insect, ii., p. 88. 



Black, opaque; palpi and antennie reddish, club of the latter 

 fuscous ; head covered with broad foveate contiguous punctures, 

 clypeus distinctly bi-sinuate laterally, widely emarginate in both 

 sexes but more deeply in the female than in the male in which sex 

 the angles of the emargination are less dentiform and the anterior 

 impression a little more shallow ; prothorax nearly straight laterally, 

 but slightly sinuate there towards the base, not very convex, 

 covered with longitudinal, irregular raised lines forming a sort of 

 elongate scrobiculation, in the middle of the anterior part there is a 

 short longitudinal raised line, and in the median and post-median 

 part of the disk are two transverse rows of smooth, shining, raised 

 areolets ; elytra parallel, somewhat convex in the posterior part, 

 outer margin hardly sinuate laterally below the shoulder, suture con- 

 spicuously raised ; striae geminate, deep, hardly punctate, first interval 

 very narrow, all the rest with one series of rough, irregular shallow 

 punctures, briefly setigerous, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth with a 

 row of distinct, not. closely set elongate tubercles, on the base of the 

 sixth there is one tubercle ; pygidium roughly pitted ; metasternum 

 covered with elongate, moderately deep, nearly confluent punctures; 

 apical spur of anterior tibiae moderately long, straight and slightly 

 bifid at tip in the male, acuminate, horizontal and bending down- 

 wards in the female. 



Length 6-9 mm. ; width 3i— 4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Graham's Town, East 

 London, Port Elizabeth). 



