388 .Air. B. P. Uvarovo/i 



8. Pachycarus medius, sp. n. (Figs. 2, B ; 3, B.) 



S . Larger and more robust than P. stauronoius, Uvar. 

 AnteuuDe reaching to the middle of the abdomen. Head 

 about as long as the pronotura and only a little thicker than 

 it, strongly reclinate and distinctly prominent upwards. 

 Frontal ridge at the fastigium narrowed, but not as strongly 

 as in P. stauronotus. Facial keels reaching the clypeus. 

 Metazona of" the pronotum rugulose; median keel or pro- 

 zona hardly perceptible, on metazona well developed tliough 

 low. Elytra a little longer than the abdomen and almost 

 reaching the hind knees ; mediastinal area with the basal 

 dilatation more prominent than in P. stauronotus ; discoidal 

 area more dilated than in that sjjecies, with an irregular but 

 complete false vein ; interulnar area distinctly narrower 

 than the discoidal area, with an irregular false vein ; anal 

 area with an indication of a false vein. 



General coloration reddish brown. Face ash-grey. Pro- 

 notum with a very faint indication of a paler cross ; lateral 

 lobes with a rather indistinct oblique dark streak, their lower 

 part somewhat paler than the rest. Sternum buff ; abdomen 

 yellow beneath and red above. Elytra and wings as in 

 P. stauronotus. Hind femora yellow beneath, reddish else- 

 wliere, especially so on the inside ; the upperside with three 

 grey transverse fasciae ; knees black. Hind tibiae muddy 

 yellow, with brown spines. Hind tarsi brownish. 



6 (type). 

 mm. 



Length of body 17-5 



„ head 4 



„ pronotum 4 



„ elytra 12"5 



„ hind i'eniora. ... 12 



The type is from Pretoria (TV. L. Distant) ; another para- 

 tvpic male is labelled Zoutpausberg (Kaessne?') , and differs 

 from the type in the reddish shade of its coloration, the hind 

 tibise being red. Both were identified by "VV. F. Kirby as 

 Calliptamus minor, Walk., and recorded by him as females 

 (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1902, p. 240). 



9. Pachycarus jmilidus (Kirby). 



1902. Heteropternis pallida, Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. x. 

 no. 57, p. 241, no. 4. 



This is the largest and most robust species of the genus, 

 easily separated from the other two by the structure of the 



