1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 283 



shallower but bi'oadoi' and confluent ; apical spur of antei'ioL' tibito 

 bluntly bilid at tip in the male. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Frere, Newcastle, Maritzburg), Transvaal 

 (Rustenburg). 



Pedaria segukgis, n. spec. 



Black, very little shining ; antennae piceous, club flavescent ; head 

 covered with round, equi-distant punctures closely set and nearlj^ 

 contiguous, clypeus very little emarginate in front and with the 

 angles of the emargination distinctly dentate and not impressed in 

 the anterior part ; pro thorax slightly bi- sinuate laterally and covered 

 with deep, round, almost contiguous foveolate punctures ; elytra 

 sub-cylindrical but a little ampliate laterally at middle, geminato- 

 striate, striae with shallow punctures, intervals with two series of 

 slightly elongate punctures, ninth interval slightly serrulate at 

 middle ; pygidium deeply and closely pitted ; metasternum very 

 closely pitted, the punctures almost confluent. 



This is the only South African species in which the first interval 

 of the elytra has only two series of punctures. 



Length 6-8 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Rikatla). 



Pedaeia conformis, n. spec. 



This species is very closely allied to P. 2^'cctt> a^ntl might easily be 

 taken for it. It differs, however, by the more aculeate angles of the 

 emargination of the clypeus, by the finer and slightly more closely 

 set punctures on the head and prothorax, which are in consequence 

 more densely pubescent, and by all the intervals of the elytra, with the 

 exception of the first, having each two series of punctures. The 

 colouration is bronze, or fuscous bronze, and there is a very feeble 

 trace of a slightly raised longitudinal line in the middle of the 

 anterior part of the prothorax. 



Length 6^-6f mm. ; width 3i- mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Potchefstroom), Natal (Durban). 



Pedaria alternans, Waterh., 



Annals and Magas. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 378. 



Fuscous bronze or bronze ; antennte flavescent ; head finely and 

 very closely punctured, clypeus emarginate with the angles of the 



