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Pedaeia aspera, n. spec. 



Bronze, not very shining ; head covered with closely set, round 

 punctures, not quite contiguous in the anterior part of the clypeus 

 which is widely but not deeply emarginate, with the angles of the 

 emargination very slightly acute ; prothorax nearly straight laterally, 

 covered with deep, round, very briefly setigerous punctures which 

 are deep and very closely set, scrobiculate laterally and also, 

 although slightly, in the median part of the disk, and are broader 

 along the base ; elytra sub-cylindrical, a little ampliate laterally in 

 the middle, geminato- striate, the striae are deeply punctate, the first 

 interval and the anterior half of the second are filled with scabrose, 

 briefly setigerous punctures, while the others have two only, the' 

 ninth interval does not overhang the outer margin much, and is 

 quite smooth ; pygidium very closely and deeply pitted ; median 

 part of metasternum and prosternum covered with contiguous 

 foveas ; apical spur of anterior tibiae bluntly bifid in the male. 



Length 7^ mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Barkly West). 



This species is easily recognised from its congeners by the sharply 

 scabrose punctures in the intervals of the elytra. 



Pedaeia picea, Bohem., 

 Plate XXXVIII., fig. 29. 

 Insect. CafTrar., ii., p. 206. 



P. cupxtscens, Har., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1859, p. 195. 



Fuscous bronze, turning sometimes to black, seldom with a 

 bronzy tinge, little shining ; antennae flavescent ; head covered with 

 round punctures closely set but not contiguous, clypeus widely but 

 not deeply emarginate, anterior depression shallow and elongate ; 

 prothorax slightly sinuate laterally in the anterior part and very 

 little attenuate towards the base, it is covered with round punctures 

 which are not contiguous and are separated by smooth intervals ; 

 elytra sub-cylindrical but a little ampliate laterally at middle, gemi- 

 nato-striate, striae deeply punctate, first, third, and fifth intervals 

 with three series of slightly elongate, very briefly setigerous punc- 

 tures which on the second and fifth intervals are tri-seriate from the 

 base to about the median part only, the ninth interval is distinctly 

 carinate, but not serrulate ; pygidium closely foveolate ; meta- 

 sternum covered in the central part with round punctures not 

 closely set, but denser near the mesosternum, where they are 



