280 Transactions Sotcth African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Pedaria costata, Fahr., 

 Plate XXXVIII., fig. 30. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 204. 



Black, opaque, nearly glabrous ; palpi and antennae piceous red, 

 club of the latter fuscous ; head covered with fine, closely set, con- 

 tiguous round punctures, clypeus broadly and deeply impressed in 

 the anterior part, deeply and widely emarginate with the angles of 

 the emargination not angular; prothorax nearly straight laterally 

 but a little attenuate towards the base, not very convex, covered 

 with fine, very closely set punctures contiguous on the sides, and 

 nearly so in the median part, and having occasionally a faint trace 

 of one or two longitudinal areolets behind the supra-marginal smooth 

 tubercle, there is a slight median longitudinal impressed line in the 

 posterior part of the disk ; elytra parallel, outer margin strongly 

 sinuate above the metasternal epimera, little convex except towards 

 the middle of the posterior part which is somewhat aculeate at apex, 

 with intervals moderately costate in the anterior part and distinctly 

 so in the posterior where they overhang the apical part, these 

 intervals are very finely and closely punctate, and the ninth is 

 carinate but reaches only as far as the rounding of the posterior 

 part ; pygidium very closely punctured ; metasternum scrobiculate 

 in the anterior part, regularly and closely pitted in the centre and 

 base ; apical spur of anterior tibiae of the male curved inwardly, 

 short and straight in the female. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. The figure of the genital 

 armature is not correct. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg), Transvaal (Lydenburg, Eus- 

 tenburg). Cape Colony (Bedford). 



The short squamose hairs springing from the punctures are nearly 

 always rubbed off on the upper part, but traces are to be found on 

 the sides of the elytra. 



Pedaeia cicatricosa, n. spec. 



Black, sub-opaque, but with the geminate striae of the elytra 

 shining, palpi and antennae reddish, club of the latter black ; head 

 covered with closely set, almost confluent, deep punctures, clypeus 

 slightly sinuate laterally, broadly and deeply emarginate at apex, the 

 emargination being almost triangular and the angles broadly den- 

 tate ; prothorax straight laterally but slightly attenuate towards the 

 base, not very convex, deeply and closely foveolato-punctate, the 



