688 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



the median part, and in the male only the suture and the outer 

 margin are l)ristly, in the female, however, the whole surface is 

 covered with bristly hairs ; hind legs as in the preceding species, 

 but the fifth joint of the tarsi is more seiTulate beneath in the 

 male. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width G-6i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Pachycxema saga, n, spec. 



Intermediate in form between P. naniaqna and P. Uncola ; it is a 

 little more elongated, the humeral callus on the elytra is very little 

 developed, and there is on each side two not much raised but 

 distinct costs ; the liead and prothorax are similar in shape and 

 sculpture, but there is a distinct longitudinal groove in the middle, 

 and as often as not a marginal band all round of flavescent 

 scales in both sexes; the scutellum, which is narrower and slightly 

 shorter than in the other two species, is covered with scales, 

 but the elytra, which are ochraceous yellow, are without any in 

 both sexes, and have on each side three discoidal as well as a 

 sutural and an outer marginal row of long, black bristles ; the 

 pygidium is vertical and covered with white scales in the male, 

 yellow^ in the female, and the propygidium has a distinct apical, 

 transverse, fuscous or black band ; hind legs as in the two preceding 

 species, fifth joint of tarsi slightly tri-dentate beneath. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5^-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Pachycnema abdominalis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 1099. 



Anisonyx ahdominalis, loc. cit. 



P. nicjro-limhata, Paring., Trans. S. A. Philos. Soc, vol. iv., 1888, 

 pt. 2, p. 102. 



Black, clothed on the head, prothorax, and scutellum with long, 

 black liairs interspersed in the male with greyish-white ones ; 

 abdomen and pygidium clothed with white scales ; elytra light 

 testaceous brown, edged all round, and also along the suture, with 

 a fuscous band, along the posterior part of the suture there is a 

 nari'ow line of silvei*y-white scales ; legs black ; head rugose ; 

 clypeus elongated, a little narrowed, emarginate at apex, and with 

 the two apical teeth distinctly reflexed ; prothorax obliquely attenuate 

 laterally in the anterior part, distinctly emarginate towards the base, 



