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emargination distinctly dentiform, auteriov impression almost indis- 

 tinct ; prothorax very little sinuate laterally near the base, covered 

 with fine, very closely set setigerous round punctures, more elongate 

 and somewhat scabrose laterally ; elytra sub-cylindrical but a little 

 ampliate laterally at middle, geminato-striate, striae rather fine, 

 intervals having on the anterior part three series of slightly con- 

 fluent punctures, except the fourth and sixth which have each two 

 rows of regular punctures, the ninth costate interval is sub-tubercu- 

 late for the greater part of the length, and at the base of the eighth 

 there is a shorter series of similar tubercles as well as small some- 

 what crenulate costa at the base of the seventh ; pygidium, under 

 side, and legs as in the other species. 



I know only the male of this species. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm, 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Pedaria sobrina, n. spec. 



Very closely allied to the preceding species ; the colour and shape 

 are identical, but the body is a little more massive, the clypeus is 

 not denticulate on each side of the emargination in either sex, the 

 punctures on the prothorax are slightly broader, but this diiference, 

 however, is noticeable only when comparing the two species ; the 

 intervals of the elytra have the same series of punctures, but the 

 basal part of the seventh and eighth and the whole of the ninth have 

 no trace of tubercles. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 4^-4f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Port Elizabeth). 



Gen. AULONOCNEMIS, Klug, 

 Wiegm. Arch., 1838, i., p. 70. 



Mentum a little longer than broad, broadly emarginate at tip from 

 angle to angle, and attenuate very obliquely laterally from the 

 median part to the anterior angle ; ligula divided into two ; mandibles 

 strong, sub-arcuate, horny, sharp at tip, and fringed inwardly with 

 short ciliiE ; molar tooth strong, striate ; labial palpi moderately 

 short, joints quadrangular, nearly equal ; apical lobe of maxillae 

 greatly developed ; apical joint of maxillary palpi fusiform, not quite 

 acuminate at tip and as long as the three preceding, second one 

 swollen, short ; labrum distinct, horny ; head rounded laterally in 



