New and little-known Lagriidae and Pedilidae. 193 



stricted at a little beyond the middle. Prothorax transversely 

 cordate, wider than the head in q, transversely depressed before 

 the basal groove, closely impressed with rather large, rounded, 

 umbilicate punctures. Elytra elongate, much wider than the 

 prothorax, subparallel in $, gradually narrowed from the base in ' ; 

 with closely packed rows of coarse, deep, foveiform punctures, the 

 narrow interstices shining and transversely confluent. Beneath 

 closely, the ventral segments more sparsely, punctate; fifth ventral 

 segment slightly emarginate in $ ; aedeagus broad, deeply 

 sulfate above, produced into a narrow, dorsally thickened knob 

 at the tip. Tibiae coarsely asperate, the intermediate pair feebly 

 curved. 



Length 9-12, breadth 2J-3 mm. (<y $.) 



Hob. W. Africa, Old Calabar {ex coll. Murray), Sierra 

 Leone (Mvs. Brit.). 



Five specimens, including two males, the examples from 

 Sierra Leone acquired by the Museum in 1867, all some- 

 what broken. 



PEDILIDAE. 



Diacalla, Pascoe. 



This genus, type D. comata, Pasc, was at first referred 

 to Lagriidae, and subsequently, on account of the widely 

 open anterior coxal cavities, transferred (in 1871) by the 

 author to Pedilidae. The diagnosis was made from a 

 single $ example, and a <$ mentioned as possibly belonging 

 to the same species. Both sexes are represented in the 

 material before me, showing that Diacalla is scarcely 

 distinguishable from Egestria, except by general facies 

 (the entire upper surface being very coarsely punctate in 

 Diacalla), and by the form of the terminal joint of the 

 maxillary palpi — securiform in Diacalla, long and cult i i- 

 form in Egestria — and the still longer apical joint of the 

 antennae in the male. 



1. Diacalla comata. (Plate LXIII, figs. 8, £; 

 8a, antenna.) 



Diacalla comata, Pasc, Journ. Ent. li, p. 46, pi. 2, fig. 

 6 ($), (1863). 

 <J. Antennae with joint 11 fully as long as 8-10 united, some- 

 what bent at the middle; elytra rapidly narrowed from the base. 

 Aedeagus thickened at the tip above 



