Coleoptera from Delagoa Bay. 379 



Head rugose, very coarsely reticulate, front transversely 

 sulcate ; antenna with the basal joint stout and coarsely 

 punctate, remaining joints more finely and sparingly punc- 

 tate, gradually becoming more slender, and, with the excep- 

 tion of the very short second and the apical joint, with their 

 apices clavate. Pronotum transverse, wider than long, very 

 coarsely punctate, roughly rugose and intricate ; lateral 

 margins laminately produced, armed with five strong spines, 

 which on the right-hand margin are less strongly produced, 

 and where there is an additional small central spine, making 

 six in all ; anterior margin finely and ochraceously pilose, 

 with a prominent tuft of ochraceous hairs near the lateral 

 angles. fScutellum obtusely triangular, the margins coarsely 

 punctate. Elytra very finely and thickly punctate and 

 slightly scabrous ; humeral angles rounded, apices rounded, 

 lateral and sutural margins very narrowly black. Apices of 

 the tibiae and the whole of the tarsi beneath ochraceously 

 pilose. Body beneath thickly and finely punctate and 

 sparingly pilose ; head beneath rugose. 



Long. 30 millim. ; max. lat. elytr. 13 millim. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay. 



A single male specimen. Very closely allied to P. jjretorius, 

 Dist., from the Transvaal, but differing by the strongly 

 spined lateral margins of the pronotum and the more trian- 

 gulated scutellum. 



Aulacopus (?) mossambicus, sp. n. 



Dull reddish ; abdomen beneath, scutellum, and eyes 

 piceous. 



Head coarsely punctate and rugulose, with a central linear 

 levigate impression, the front transversely sulcate ; antenna} 

 about as long as the body, somewhat coarsely punctate, basal 

 joint stout and clavate, second joint very short, its apical 

 margin gibbous, third joint about twice as long as first. 

 Pronotum transverse, wider than long, coarsely punctate and 

 rugulose, lateral margins obtusely serrated, widened poste- 

 riorly, lateral posterior angles prominent. Scutellum coarsely 

 punctate and rounded. Elytra slightly widened posteriorly, 

 slightly sinuate before middle, apices obliquely rounded and 

 overlapping ; each elytron with seven raised longitudinal lines. 



Long. 15 millim. 



Uab. Delagoa Bay. 



The head and pronotum are much duller red than the 

 antennae and elytra. 



