1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Soutli Africa. 281 



punctures confluent laterally, in the centre of the disk are two 

 transverse rows of raised, shining, longitudinal irregular areolets, 

 the two median ones of the posterior row being somewhat triangu- 

 lar ; elytra nearly parallel, convex from the median to the apical 

 part, outer margin strongly sinuate above the epimera of the meta- 

 sternum, conspicuously geminato-striate, the thin, slightly raised 

 walls of the striae interrupted by a transverse puncture at long, equal 

 distance, intervals filled with numerous sub-scrobiculate punctures, 

 plane but very distinctly costate at apex, the costate part overhanging 

 the outer margin; pygidium and under side as in P. costata, of which 

 it is a close ally, but is differentiated by a shorter facies, by the 

 sculpture of the prothorax, and by the shape of the intervals which 

 are not raised except in the posterior part ; the apical spur of the 

 anterior tibiae of the male is strongly bifid, with the inner part of the 

 spine longer than the outer instead of being simple and strongly 

 incurved as in P. costata. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4J-4J- mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). Found in carrion, teste 

 G. A. K. Marshall. 



Pedaeia cylindrica, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 207. 



Dark bronze, not much shining ; antennas flavous ; head very 

 closely punctured, punctures nearly contiguous, clypeus slightly 

 but widely emarginate with the angles of the emargination rounded, 

 and having in the centre a deep impression ; prothorax convex, 

 nearly straight laterally but slightly sinuate before the median part 

 and near the base, it is covered with deep, round, contiguous 

 foveolate punctures, and in the basal part there is a conspicuous 

 longitudinal median carina projecting on the scutellary part ; elytra 

 sub-cylindrical, a little ampliate laterally in the middle, geminato- 

 striate with the intervals . filled equally with deep, scrobiculate 

 irregular punctures each bearing a short, almost squamiform hair, 

 ninth interval costate and serrulate from near the base for more 

 than half the length, seventh and eighth intervals sub-costate at 

 the base ; pygidium foveolate ; metasternum deeply and roughly 

 foveolate. 



Length 6J— 6f mm. ; width 3J^-3f mm. 



Male unseen. 



Hab. Mozambique (Louren90-Marquez, Eikatla). Neighbourhood 

 of the Orange Eiver, according to Fahroeus. 



