376 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



angles prominent, narrowing to apices, which are rounded, 

 thickly pubescent, brownishly tomentose on basal area ; a 

 short blackish tuft or hairy tubercle on each elytron a little 

 beyond middle. Body beneath and legs greyishly pubescent ; 

 legs mottled with brownish spots ; abdominal segments 

 fringed with ochraceous hairs. 



Long. 16-18 millim. ; lat. hum. angl. 8-9 miliim. 



Bab. Transvaal, Barberton {Dr. P. Rendall). 



Dichostates Ayresi^ sp. n. 



Broad, griseous, pubescent, each elytron ornamented with 

 three tufts or hairy tubercles at base, situate transversely, and 

 two on disk, placed longitudinally. 



Head broad, short, mottled with fuscous, thickly pubescent, 

 with a central narrow striation, somewhat foveate at anterior 

 margin ; antennae longer than the body, shortly pilose, third 

 joint nearly equal in length to the first, apices of the joints 

 fringed with pale hairs. Pronotum broad, pilose, mottled 

 with brown ; lateral margins oblique, much broader at base, 

 basal angles produced into a prominent blunt tooth. Elytra 

 broadest at l)ase, narrowing to apices, which are rounded, 

 thickly and coarsely punctate, the tufts ochraceous. Body 

 beneath and legs griseous, pubescent, the last spotted with 

 brownish. 



Long. 10 millim.; lat. hum. angl. 7 millim. 



Hah. Transvaal, Rustenburg {Distant). 



Near D. coffer, Fahr., but differing by arrangement of 

 tufts to elytra. 



Alyattes rustenhurji, sp. n. 



Griseous, rather thickly covered with brownish pubescence. 



Head broad, with a central longitudinal striation and a 

 transverse striation between the antenniferons tubercles ; 

 antennge shorter than the body, castaneous, with pale ochra- 

 ceous pubescence, basal joint very robust, third about twice 

 as long as first, Pronotum long, subquadrate ; lateral 

 margins deflexed and moderately convexly rounded, anterior 

 margin slightly convex and very prominent ; two robust 

 central tubercles on disk. Elytra with the humeral angles 

 very prominent, beyond which the lateral margins are mode- 

 rately concavely sinuate to about centre, when they are again 

 ampliated and obliquely rounded to apices ; each elytron with 

 a very large compressed tubercle at base, and with a long 

 compressed tuberculous elevation beyond middle ; between 

 these tubercles and outer margin a raised tuberculous line ; 



