242 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



yeiiow, infuscated behind, striated, with the alternate intervals tessel- 

 lated with dark brown. Length 4^ mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Gen. PAZENA, Motsch., 

 Etud. Entom., 1859, p. 31. 



Ligula elongate, slightly bilobate at apex ; labrum square, covering 

 the greatest part of the mandibles ; antennae thick, but not longer 

 than head and prothorax together ; basal joint longer than the fol- 

 lowing, moderately robust, the second one narrower and almost three 

 times shorter than the first, third one a little longer than the second, 

 and the two together as long as the first, fourth shorter than the 

 second, conical and smooth like the three preceding, the fifth to the 

 tenth hardly longer than the fourth, but broader, ovate, and pubes- 

 cent, the eleventh as long as the third, ovate and acuminate at tip ; 

 eyes moderately projecting ; prothorax slightly transverse and re- 

 curved laterally, cordiform with the posterior angles blunt, and 

 obliquely arcuate, base truncate, basal part not produced behind ; 

 scutellum small, triangular ; elytra broader than the prothorax, a 

 little ampliate behind, and arcuate without any sensible sinuation, 

 but not covering the last abdominal segment ; they are regularly 

 striate, the striaB finely punctured and the punctures very close ; the 

 intervals are convex ; on the second stria is an impressed foveola 

 situated about three-quarters of the length, and another on the third 

 at about a third of the length from the base ; the body is smooth on 

 both sides, and in the male the joints of the anterior tarsi are 

 dilated, triangular, the first and second are as long as broad, the 

 third, a transverse one, is almost bilobate, the fourth bifid, and the 

 fifth is the longest of all, with the claws divaricating and much 

 pectinate ; the last segment of the abdomen is broadly truncate, with 

 a small carina in the median part of the posterior edge. 



Hab. The species on which the genus is founded is an inhabitant 

 of Java. I have not been able to identify either the genus or the 

 South African species. 



Pazena plagiata, Motsch., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1864, p. 224. 



Facies of Lehia cMorocepliala, but more robust, and with the head 

 red ; subovate, depressed, shining, testaceous red, with a broad in- 

 fuscate lateral band, the six terminal joints of the antennae black ; 

 head subquadrate ; eyes large, prominent ; mandibles robust ; pro- 

 thorax almost narrower than the head, quadrate, a little narrowed 

 behind, slightly marginate, and posterior angles straight ; elytra 

 nearly double the width and three times the length of the prothorax, 

 slightly dilate behind, deeply striate with the strijB slightly punctured. 



