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appressed hairs slightly squamiform; abdominal segments also 
clothed with similar hairs, which are, however, more sparse on the 
thighs, and denser and longer on ‘the pectus. i 
Length 20-21 mm.; width 11-114 mm. 
I have seen a long series of this species, the colouring and 
sculpturing of which is very constant. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Manica, Umtali, Sebakwe). 
Gren. PEGYLIS, Erichs., 
Ins. Deutschl., iii., p. 657. 
Mentum broad, strongly sinuate laterally, fused with the ligular 
part, which is very broadly and deeply notched in front into two 
sub-quadrate lobes covered with thick hairs on the outer face; apical 
joint of labial palpi ovato-acuminate, the three joints of nearly the 
same length; maxillee very robust, bluntly toothed at the tip and 
with irregularly bifid teeth below the upper one, last joint of maxillary 
palpi somewhat slender, fusiform, truncate at the tip and a little 
longer than the second joint; mandibles arcuate, with a sharp cutting 
edge, the right one ending in a sharp arcuate tooth; the antenne 
9-jointed in the male, 10-jointed in the female ; club tri-jointed and 
longer in the male than in the female in which sex all the joints are 
very distinct, but in the male the fifth and sixth joints are fused into 
one, and the seventh is very minute and fits again the base of the 
first joint of the club; labrum vertical, bi-lobate; clypeus semi- 
circular but deeply emarginate in front, separated from the head by 
an impressed line; eyes large; prothorax more than twice broader 
than long, ampliated laterally past the median part, not much con- 
vex, strongly bisinuate along the base; scutellum cordate ; elytra 
somewhat plane, a little broader at the shoulders than the prothorax, 
ampliated laterally beyond the shoulders, not costulate, covering the 
whole propygidium and the base of the pygidium; abdominal seg- 
ments fused, mesosternum simple, legs somewhat slender, anterior 
tibiz tri-dentate outwardly, but with the basal tooth very weak; no 
inner spur, the posterior ones without any oblique ridges; tarsi 
moderately long, claws robust, hooked, each one cleft at the tip in 
the manner of Schizonycha, and also aculeate at the base. 
PEGYLIS CONSPURCATA, Gerst., 
Arch. f. Naturgesch., xxxiii., 1, p. 42; DieGlied. Faun. Sansibar., p. 112. 
Testaceous-red, moderately shining, each puncture on the upper 
side bearing minute greyish hairs; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen 
