1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. iy 
and the margins fringed with dense, long hairs; pygidium closely 
punctulate ; abdomen hairy, pectus and femora densely hairy. 
Length 12 mm.; width 6 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (no exact locality). 
PARACAMENTA SUTURALIS, nN. spec. 
Testaceous, with the posterior part of the clypeus, the head, the 
median discoidal part of the prothorax, and a broad sutural band 
black ; antenne rufescent; build and sculpture of P. conspicua, but 
without a fringe of long hairs along the sides of the prothorax 
and elytra; the clypeus is of the same shape as in P. conspicua, 
and the posterior part is equally scabroso-punctate, but the hairs 
there are not so dense, the under side is, however, as hairy. 
Length 104 mm.; width 5% mm. 
Hab. Natal (Hilton Road). 
PARACAMENTA LYDENBURGIANA, 0. spec. 
Head and under side fuscous, prothorax reddish ; elytra almost 
straw-colour, antenne rufescent; anterior part of the clypeus nearly 
impunctate, broadly excavate, posterior part punctate and _ hairy, 
head punctulate; club of antennz very long, joints equally long, 
third joint of pedicel aculeate at the base; prothorax of the normal 
shape, but a little more elongate than usual, and with a fringe of 
long but not dense flavescent hairs; elytra cylindrical, punctate, 
costules evanescent, lateral fringe of hairs not dense; under side 
hairy. 
Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
PARACAMENTA VERTICALIS, Bohem., 
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 109. 
Brick-red, somewhat shining and fringed along the prothorax and 
the elytra with very long, dense flavescent hairs; clypeus shaped as 
in the two preceding species, but the hollowed anterior part is very 
narrow, and the long, erect hairs spring from nearer the anterior 
margin, and are very long; the shape and sculpture of the elytra 
is as in the preceding species and quite as deep in proportion to the 
size of the insect; the abdomen and femora are hairy, and the 
pectus densely so; the antennal club is very long, and all the joints 
are equal in the male, the third joint of the pedicel is long and 
somewhat aculeate inwardly in the median part. 
Length 74 mm.; width 4 mm. 
Hab, Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
