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occasionally one or two discoidal fuscous bands (vittata); head and 
clypeus deeply but only moderately closely punctured, each puncture 
bearing a very fine appressed greyish hair, clypeus arcuate but 
obtuse and slightly sinuate in front, and with the intervals between 
the punctures plainly coriaceous, attenuate laterally in the anterior 
part, very little ampliated in the centre, and only very slightly 
narrower across the base, the angles of which are sharp, than across 
the median part, there is a median longitudinal impressed line, the 
punctures are moderately shallow and not very closely set, and only 
the lateral ones bear a minute hair, the anterior margin is briefly 
and the median part of the basal one very densely pubescent ; elytra 
glabrous, coriaceous, covered with deep, nearly confluent punctures 
and having on each side two costules somewhat distinct but oblite- 
rated in the anterior part; pygidium strongly sloping, clothed with 
greyish appressed hairs; abdominal segments punctate, each punc- 
ture bearing a short somewhat scale-like hair, pectus and legs with 
appressed, longer hairs; anterior tibize bi-dentate but occasionally 
with a slightly angular basal sinuation; basal part of claws some- 
what angular, sub-median part with a sub-vertical tooth, and of 
equal length in the female, but with the inner one quite obliterated 
in the anterior legs on the male, and also on the four posterior ones. 
Length 17-22 mm.; width 94 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Willowmore, Port Elizabeth, 
Graham’s Town, Seymour, King William’s Town, Griqualand 
West); Natal (Durban, Frere, Umvoti, Maritzburg, Echowe); Trans- 
vaal. 
This species is very common in the eastern parts of the Colony, 
in Natal and in the Transvaal. In Natal it causes serious damage 
to the plantations of wattle-trees (Acacia mollissima, W.). 
PEGYLIDIUS, n. gen. 
Mentum twice as broad as long and very deeply incised laterally 
at its junction with the ligular part, the suture of which is quite 
obliterated, this ligular part is broadly rounded laterally, and very 
deeply emarginate in the middle in front, last joint of labial palpi 
fusiform, not quite as long as the two preceding ones put together ; 
maxillae robust, ending in a compressed bifid tooth at the apex, and 
having two sharply bifid teeth on each side under the apical one, 
lower lobe distinct and ending in a pencil of hairs; maxillary palps 
fairly long, the last joint fusiform and acuminate at tip, slightly 
longer than the second, not impressed laterally ; mandibles robust, 
arcuate, sharply toothed at the tip, and with a strong cutting edge 
