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Halticinm. 

 Cladocera femoraUs, Gerst. Rustenburg. 

 HaUica pyritosa^ Erichs. Pretoria. 

 Chcetocnema natakusis, Balj. Natal : Pine Town. 

 (Edionychis natalensi's, Balj. Barberton. 



Decaria abdominalis^ Jac. Barberton. 



This Halticide is the second known genus possessing ten- 

 jointed antennge only ; the specimens in this collection have 

 the entire underside black ; in the type from Mashonaland 

 the abdomen is fulvous, but I cannot find any other distinctive 

 characters. 



Blepharida reticulatay Baly. Waterberg, Zoutpansberg,. 

 Pretoria. 



A more strongly marked variety of this species has been 

 described by myself as B. Holuhi. 



Blepharida ornata, Baly. Barberton. 

 Blepharida inornata, Jac. Barberton. 

 Eriotica fuscipennis, Har. Barberton. 



Phygasia pallida^ sp. n» 



Entirely pale flavous; head and thorax impunctate, the 

 latter with a shallow transverse sulcus ; elytra finely and 

 closely punctured. 



Length 4^ millim. 



Head rather broad, impunctate, the frontal elevations 

 broadly subquadrate, feebly raised ; clypeus not strongly 

 convex, rather broad, impunctate ; palpi thickened ; antennse 

 robust, flavous, not extending to the middle of the elytra,^ 

 the second joint very short, rounded, the third rather longer 

 than the fourth joint, all the others thickened, the terminal 

 one elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides stronglj"- 

 rounded at the middle, constricted at the base, anterior angles 

 obtuse, posterior angles dentiform, the disk impunctate, 

 shining, with a shallow sulcus near the base, bounded at the 

 sides by a perpendicular obsolete groove ; scutellum broad ; 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, finely and closely 

 punctured : underside and legs flavous ; prosternum ex- 

 tremely narroM' ; tibiaj mucronate ; the first joint of the poste- 

 rior tarsi as long as the following joints together. 



Hah. Pretoria. 



