266 Descrii)tive Catalogue [1896. 



the anterior dorsal patch begins at about one-fourth of the length, 

 reaches about the median part and extends from the second to the 

 fifth striae, and the posterior one, slightly smaller than the anterior 

 and close to the apex, extends on the first, second, third, and fourth 

 intervals ; under side and legs brick-red. Length 9 mm. ; width 

 4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (D'Urban). 



Chaudoir considers Lehia immaculata, Bohem., to be a variety of 

 A. tetragramma ; it is not so, and had he seen Boheman's type he 

 would not have made that error. 



ASTATA PICIPENNIS, Motsch., 



Bull. Mosc, 1864, ii., p. 226. 



Head and prothorax brick-red, the latter with two very distinct 

 black spots; antennae, palpi, and legs rufescent ; prothorax as in A. 

 tetragramma ; elytra nearly twice as broad as the prothorax, elongate, 

 but ampliate past the middle, striate with the intervals very convex 

 and subcarinate, black, shining with a very short basal flavescent 

 patch, the outer margin has also a narrow flavescent band reaching 

 from the humeral angle to about the median part ; under side 

 flavescent. Length 9 mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Isipingo). 



Chaudoir in his Monograph., loc. cit., says, when treating of A. 

 tetragramma, that the two anterior yellow patches are sometimes 

 missing, and that the elytra are often quite black, and it is to that 

 variety that L. immaculata, Bohem., L. lyicipennis , Motsch., and 

 probably L. hyiioxantha belong. The first-named species is not 

 what Chaudoir supposed, and the second one is distinct from A. 

 tetragramma on account of the ampliation of the elytra, which are not 

 parallel as in A. tetragramma; the basal yellowish patch is also a 

 little larger. 



Gen. PEOMECOCHILA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1871, p. 157. 



Mentum with a broad median tooth ; ligula elongato-ovate, 

 rounded at the tip ; the paraglossae narrow, nearly as long as the 

 ligula and rounded at the tip ; mandibles projecting, slightly curving 

 in at the apex ; labrum much longer than broad and narrowed in 

 front ; antennae with the four basal joints much more slender than 

 the others ; prothorax nearly as long as broad ; elytra subparallel ; 

 fourth joint of all tarsi spongy underneath, lobate, the lobes broad ; 

 claws with three teeth on each side. 



The shape of the labrum is the most distinctive feature of that 

 genus. According to De Chaudoir, it is the only true Lebiid in 

 which the labrum is longer than wide. 



