nciv Species o/*Pedaiia. 375 



five punctures would form a line from tlic front to the poste- 

 rior marijin. 'I'iie elytra at the base are not broader than the 

 thorax, but arc grailually witiened to the middle and then 

 again narrowed to the apex; the stria^ are strong; the inter- 

 stices are cIohcIj, strongly, and irregularly punctured (except 

 perhaps the sixth), the intervals between the punctures very- 

 narrow and inclined to form small tubercles. 



Pedaria Taijlori, sj). n. 



Klongato-oblouga, nij;ro-fusca, parum nitida ; clypeo leviter emar- 

 ginato ; thorace coiifertim fortiter punctato, antiee medio leviter 

 tuberoso, lateribus ante medium et ad basin leviter sinuatis ; 

 elytris thorace paullo latioribus, sat fortiter pimctato-striatis, 

 interstitiis fortiter seriatim punctatis. 



Long. 8 millim. 



^ Hah. :Mombas, Rabai Hills [Bev. W. E. Taylor) ; Lake 

 Nyassa ( Tlirhrall) . 



Very similar to P. tuhercuUgeraj but a little less convex. 

 The head has the punctuation stronger and the punctures are 

 less numerous ; about seventeen may be counted in a line 

 from the vertex to the commencement of the clypeus, whereas 

 in P. tuherculii/era about twenty-four might be counted ; the 

 line dividing the clypeus from the forehead is very indistinct, 

 and the punctures on the clypeus are nearly as strong and 

 close as on the forehead ; the outer angles of the anterior 

 emargination are very slightly dentiform. The thorax is very 

 similar, but is a trifle narrower at the base, and the sides 

 have a more distinct indentation immediately before the pos- 

 terior angles ; the punctuation is stronger and more uniform, 

 with very narrow intervals ; at halfway towards the side 

 about seventeen punctures may be counted in a line from the 

 front to the posterior margin ; the swelling at the front mar- 

 gin is very distinct, but not quite as much raised as in P. 

 tuberculigera. The elytra are distinctly more rounded at tiie 

 apex ; the stri» are equally strong, but have the punctures a 

 little moie separated (about one and a half diameters of a 

 puncture) ; the punctures on the interstices are strong, 

 arranged in lines, slightly irregular on the second, third, and 

 fifth interstices, regular on the fourth and sixth. 



The specimen from Lake Nyassa has the punctures on the 

 thorax a trifle larger, and the swelling in front is much less 

 marked. This is probably the female. 



A specimen from S.E. Africa, Arusha {F. J. Jackaou, 

 Efq.), differs from P. Tayluri in having the tubercle on the 



