from the Transvaal. 347 



and a half times broader than long, black, the sides nearly 

 straight, the posterior angles rounded, the basal margin very 

 slightly and broadly produced at the middle, the surface very 

 finely and closely punctured, partly shining, the sides with 

 a very deep, transverse, sinuate fovea, the base with a trans- 

 verse groove at the middle ; scutellum black, its apex trun- 

 cate ; elytra parallel and very elongate, uniformly fulvous, 

 finely punctured, the punctures here and there arranged in 

 rows ; the shoulders rounded, the sides slightly lobed at the 

 base : underside and legs black, clothed with fulvous pubes- 

 cence ; tarsi short and robust, the first joint of the posterior 

 tarsi one half longer than the second joint. 



Hah. Zoutpansberg. 



I know of no other African species Vvdiich has the thorax 

 so deejily foveolate at the sides in connexion with the 

 uniformly coloured elytra; only a single (apparently female) 

 specimen is before me. 



Tituhcea pretorice^ sp. n. 



Black, the head finely pubescent ; thorax closely punctured 

 and finely rugose throughout ; elytra opaque fulvous, deeply 

 and closely punctured, the apical margin and two broad trans- 

 verse bands, one before, the other below the middle, bluish 

 black. 



Length 11 millim. 



Head finely pubescent, black, the vertex swollen, fiaelv 

 punctured, the other portion finely longitudinally strigose, the 

 epistome triangularly emarginate at the apex; mandibles 

 robust ; antenna) short, not extending to the base of the 

 thorax, transversely serrate from the fourth joint, the second 

 and third joints small, fulvous ; thorax nearly three times 

 broader than long, the sides obliquely narrowed towards the 

 apex, straight, rounded near the posterior angles, the latter 

 obtuse, the median lobe broad, moderately produced, the disk 

 with a narrow transverse depression at the sides, closely and 

 strongly punctured and irregularly rugose and finely wrinkled, 

 black; scutellum triangular, black, rugosely punctured; 

 elytra very deeply and closely punctured, especially so at the 

 lighter-coloured parts, the interstices at the apex tuberculate, 

 the basal margin in shape of a ridge, the colour fulvous ; a 

 broad, transverse, medially narrowed band before the middle, 

 another below the latter, not extending to the lateral margins 

 as well as these posteriorly, and the apical margins bluish 

 black : underside and legs densely clothed with silvery 

 pubescence ; legs elongate, the first joint of the tarsi as lon^^- 



