1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 671 



broad at the base and slightly connate there ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae with a distinct apical spur; hind femora and hind 

 tibiae somewhat swollen in the male and less so in the female ; 

 claws of anterior legs double and both cleft, of the intermediate 

 single and cleft, of the posterior single and simple. 



An intermediate form between Pachycnema and Eviesthis. The 

 shape of the outer teeth of the anterior tibiaj is similar to that of 

 some species of the former, but the hind legs are as in Eviesthis. 



Only one species is known. 



Stenocnema pudibunda, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 67. 



Chocolate-brown, with the head and prothorax fuscous ; clypeus 

 triangular, deeply emarginate at tip and with the outer angles 

 sharply dentate ; the head and the prothorax are very closely 

 punctured and the punctures are filled with slightly liavescent 

 scales, but they are also densely hairy, the hairs are somewhat 

 villose and flavescent in the anterior part of the prothorax, and 

 shorter and black in the posterior where there is also a narrow band 

 of small scales ; scutellum scaly ; elytra impressed along the raised 

 suture and having a rounded costule as a prolongation of the 

 humeral callus, the juxta-sutural depression is filled with a band 

 of minute yellowish contiguous scales beginning at a short distance 

 from the base and merged in the rounded apical part with a similar 

 supra-marginal band reaching very nearly to the base, there is 

 along the costule another discoidal band which does not reach much 

 beyond the median part, and on each side are three discoidal distinct 

 rows of short, stiff black bristles, the sides are also closely bristly ; 

 under side and pygidial part clothed with contiguous flavescent 

 scales ; pectus villose, the hairs greyish ; legs covered with dense, 

 appressed white squamiform hairs. The female is like the male. 



Length 7-8^ mm. ; width 4f-5^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham's Town), 



Gen. pachycnema, Serville, 



Encyclop. Method., x., 1825, p. 375. 



Physociiema, Burm. 



Mentum very long, oblongo-ovate but attenuated towards the tip 



which is rounded, ligula long, bi-lobate, lobes very diverging ; upper 



lobe of maxillae densely penicillate, horny at the base, apical joint of 



labial palpi sub-cylindrical and slightly bent inwardly, apical joint of 



