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five punctures would form a line from the front to the poste- 

 rior margin. The elytra at the base are not broader than the 

 thorax, but are graduailj widened to the middle and then 

 again narrowed to the apex ; the stria? are strong ; the inter- 

 stices are closely, strongly, and irregularly punctured (except 

 perhaps the sixth), the intervals between the punctures very 

 narrow and inclined to form small tubercles. 



Pedaria Taylor i^ sp. n. 



Elongato-oblonga, nigro-fusoa, parum nitida ; clypeo leviter emar- 

 ginato ; thorace confcrtim fortiter punctato, antice medio leviter 

 tuberoso, lateribus ante medium et ad basin leviter sinuatis ; 

 elytris thorace paullo latioribus, sat fortiter pimetato-striatis, 

 interstitiis fortiter seriatim punctatis. 



Long. 8 millim. 



Hab. ]\rombas, Rabai Hills {Rev. W. E. Taylor) ; Lake 

 Nyassa {Thelwall). 



Very similar to P. tuhe7-cuUgera, but a little less convex. 

 The head has the punctuation stronger and the punctures are 

 less numerous ; about seventeen may be counted in a line 

 from the vertex to the commencement of the clypeus, whereas 

 in P. tuber cul {if era about twenty-four might be counted; the 

 line dividing the clypeus from the forehead is very indistinct, 

 and the punctures on the clypeus are nearly as strong and 

 close as on the forehead ; the outer angles of the anterior 

 emargination are very slightly dentiform. The thorax is very 

 similar, but is a trifle narrower at the base, and the sides 

 have a more distinct indentation immediately before the pos- 

 terior angles ; the punctuation is stronger and more uniform, 

 with very narrow intervals ; at halfway towards the side 

 about seventeen punctures may be counted in a line from the 

 front to the posterior margin ; the swelling at the front mar- 

 gin is very distinct, but not quite as much raised as in P. 

 tuherculigera. The elytra are distinctly more rounded at the 

 apex ; the strise are equally strong, but have the punctures a 

 little more separated (about one and a half diameters of a 

 puncture) ; the punctures on the interstices are strong, 

 arranged in lines, slightly irregular on the second, third, and 

 fifth interstices, regular on the fourth and sixth. 



The specimen iiom Lake Nyassa has the punctures on the 

 thorax a trifle larger, and the swelling in front is much less 

 marked. This is probably the female. 



A specimen from S.E. Africa, Arusha {F. J. Jackson^ 

 Ef-rj.)^ differs from P. Toy (on' in having the tubercle on tiic 



