1898.] tHTTOPaAGOUS COLEOPTEEA OF AFEtCA. 231 



cupreous, finely pubescent; clypeus with the anterior margin 

 straight ; mandibles robust, fulvous ; antennse short, fulvous, the 

 seventh joint enlarged, widened, the terminal four joints transverse ; 

 thorax obscure cupreous, finely and closely punctured, distinctly 

 narrowed at the base only, with a very obsolete transverse de- 

 pression at the sides near the anterior margin, the latter narrowly 

 fulvous at the middle, the disc clothed with silvery hairs ; scutellum 

 subpentagonal, pubescent ; elytra with a short but rather deep 

 depression below the base, punctured like the thorax, the interstices 

 with rows of short silvery-grey hairs and longer black stiff ones, 

 irregularly distributed, the disc in the shape of a triangular ill- 

 defined patch, obscure metallic bluish, the sides and apex obscure 

 fulvous with a slight metallic gloss ; legs obscure piceous, the tibiae 

 and tarsi dark fulvous. 



Hah. Wernen, Natal {0. Marshall). 



A. species of peculiar coloration, of which I have two specimens 

 before me agreehig in all details ; they resemble somewhat in their 

 system of coloration P. discoidalis Jac, from India. The thorax 

 in P. lateralis is distinctly narrowed only at the base and its 

 anterior margin stained with fulvous, which will assist in the 

 recognition of the species ; all the femora are armed with a distinct 

 tooth ; in one of the specimens the terminal four joints of the 

 antennse are fuscous. 



PSETJDOCOLASPIS LATICOLLIS, Sp. nOV. 



Obscure cupreous, finely pubescent, tibise and tarsi fulvous ; 

 thorax very broad, the sides strongly swollen, minutely and closely 

 punctured, with three bands of fine white pubescence ; elytra as 

 finely punctured, with two longitudinal white pubescent stripes. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head finely and closely punctured and pubescent, with a longi- 

 tudinally divided tubercle ai the middle, the clypeus very deeply 

 semicircularly emarginate at the anterior edge, its sides raised into 

 an acute ridge ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides strongly 

 rounded, the disc greatly swollen at each side, with a transverse 

 sulcus near the anterior margin, the surface evenly, closely, and 

 finely punctured, with a band oE thin white pubescence at the sides 

 and the middle ; scutellum broadly subquadrate, closely punctured 

 and pubescent ; elytra broad and short, only about one-half longer 

 than the thorax, the apex broadly rounded, sculptured and 

 pubescent like the thorax, the hairs forming a longitudinal streak 

 at the sides and another at the middle of the disc, the shoulders 

 moderately prominent below, and the legs equally clothed with 

 white pubescence ; posterior femora with a small tooth, the others 

 unarmed, the tibise dark fulvous, the anterior ones rather curved. 



ffab. S. Africa (Drege). 



Of this species, remarkable for the deeply emarginate clypeus 

 and the swollen disc of the thorax, I possess a single specimen, 

 unfortunately without the antennse ; it was obtained years ago by 

 the African collector Drege, but seems not to have been described. 



