1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 105 
raised dorsal carine ; pygidium not deeply punctate, and having a 
moderately wide transverse smooth area. 
Var. a. testaceous-red, head black, legs piceous. 
Length 93 mm.; width 6 mm. 
Hab, In the neighbourhood of Lake N’Gami.” 
I have seen the type only of this species. From my notes I find 
that it is almost twice as large as Oocamenta rufiventris, and is there- 
fore very short and stout, the clypeus is short, very deeply incised in 
front in the anterior margin, slightly constricted laterally, the angles 
of the stricture being dentate, and the transverse carinule is a clypeal 
one. I did not at the time look at the number of antennal joints, 
but it is very doubtful if this species belongs to Camenta. 
PERICAMENTA, n. gen. 
This genus differs from Camenta merely in the number of antennal 
joints, which is nine instead of ten. In the male, the only sex 
known to me, the club is 5-jointed, the inner joint being only slightly 
shorter than the one following, the fourth joint of the pedicel is 
compressed and acuminate, and the third one moderately long; the 
shape of the clypeus, and also the general facies, is that of Camenta 
imnocua or C. nigrita. 
PERICAMENTA PAUPERCULA, Nn. Spec. 
Dark chestnut-brown, with the head and prothorax fuscous, 
antenne rufescent, legs piceous ; clypeus straight laterally, slightly 
narrower at the apex than at the base, anterior angles moderately 
rounded, anterior margin sinuate, the clypeal carina looks more like 
a suture, being hardly raised; antennz 9-jointed in the male, the 
club 5-jointed with the inner joint slightly shorter than the one 
following, and the fourth joint of the pedicel short and compressed ; 
the head and prothorax are covered with punctures of the same 
size, the elongate elytra are somewhat deeply punctured with the 
intervals slightly coriaceous, and the costules are quite visible. 
Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 
OOCAMENTA, n. gen. 
Buccal organs of Camenta, the number of antennal joints is, how- 
ever, 10 in the male with a 6- or 7-jointed club the joints of which 
are equal in length, and of nine in the female, in which the club is 
4-jointed and the joints also equal in length; the clypeus is not 
