628 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xnl. 



intervals entirely non-tuberculate, while the external ones are 

 obsoletely tuberculate." 



Gen. PEDARIA, Cat. i., 277. 



Pedaria taylori, Waterh., 



Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 375. 



Dark bronze, only moderately shiny, antennae and palps reddish 

 flavescent, clypeus broadly and somewhat deeply emarginate, the 

 genae sti'ongly projecting, the margins are setulose and the whole 

 head is covered w T ith deep, closely set punctures separated from each 

 other by a narrow smooth line ; prothorax twice as broad as long, 

 nearly straight laterally, plainly convex in the dorsal part with the 

 median anterior part produced into a conspicuous rounded knob-like 

 tubercle, the surface is covered in front and in the anterior part of 

 the tubercle by very closely-set punctures which from there to the 

 base change into deep, sub-foveate ones separated by a very narrow, 

 somewhat shiny wall ; elytra not broader at the base than the base 

 of the prothorax itself, but slightly ampliate rounded beyond the 

 lateral sinuation, and rounded towards the apex, very convex, gemi- 

 nate striate, the striae being deeply and broadly punctate, and the 

 plane intervals bearing each a double row of juxtaposed, almost 

 fossulate punctures not quite as broad as those of the posterior part 

 of the prothorax. 



Length 8-8i mm. ; width 4— 4jmm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (neighbourhood of Salisbury, Plum- 

 tree). 



The species was originally described from Lake Nyassa and Mom- 

 bassa. It is easily distinguished from its South African congeners 

 by the knob on the prothorax. 



PlNACOTARSUS, Hai\, 



Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxvi., 1875, p. 454. 

 IL Icroclitopus, Pering., Catal. i., p. 305. 



Gen. HELIOCOPRIS, Catal. i., p. 316. 

 Heliocopris colossus, Bat., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 88. 

 //. anterior, Pit., nee Oliv., Catal. i., p. 316. 



I was wrong in identifying this species as II. an tenor, Oliv. It is, 

 I think, undoubtedly Bates' species. 



