from the Transvaal. 355 



Halticin^. 

 Cladocera femoraUs, Gerst. Kusteiiburg. 

 HaJtica pyritosa, Erichs. Pretoria. 

 Chcetocnema nata/ejisis, Balj. Natal : Pine Town. 

 CEdionychis natalensis^ Baly. Barbertoa. 



Decaria ahdominalis^ Jac. Barberton. 



This Halticide is the second known genus possessing tan- 

 jointed antennse only ; the specimens in this collection have 

 the entire underside black ; in the type from Mashonaland 

 the abdomen is fulvous, but I cannot find any other distinctive 

 characters. 



Blepharida reticulata^ Paly. Waterberg, Zoutpansberg, 

 Pretoria. 



A more strongly marked variety of this species has been 

 described by myself as B. Ilolubi, 



Blepharida ornata, Baly. Barberton. 

 Blepharida inornata, Jac. Barberton. 

 Eriotica fuscipennisy Har. Barberton. 



Phygasia pallida, sp. n. 



Entirely pale flavous ; head and thorax impunctate, the 

 latter with a shallow transverse sulcus ; elytra finely and 

 closely punctured. 



Length 4| millim. 



Head rather broad, impunctate, the frontal elevations 

 broadly subquadrate, feebly raised ; clypeus not strongly 

 convex, rather broad, impunctate ; palpi thickened ; antennse 

 robust, flavous, not extending to the middle of the elytra, 

 the second joint very short, rounded, the third rather longer 

 than the fourth joint, all the others thickened, the terminal 

 one elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides strongly 

 rounded at the middle, constricted at the base, anterior angles 

 obtuse, posterior angles dentiform, the disk impunctate, 

 shining, with a shallow sulcus near the base, bounded at the 

 sides by a perpendicular obsolete groove ; scutellum broad ; 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, finely and closely 

 punctured : underside and legs flavous ; prosternum ex- 

 tremely narrow ; tibia3 mucronate ; the first joint of the poste- 

 rior tarsi as long as the following joints togetlier. 



Hah. Pretoria. 



