1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 125 



of similar hairs, and all the segments are very closely punctured ; 

 the pectus is very densely pubescent, the pubescence is long and 

 flavescent ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, basal tooth distinct 

 but not deeply incised, no inner spur, tarsi of intermediate legs 

 as long as the tibia or even a little longer. 



Female : Of a more massive build than the male ; head and pro- 

 thorax black, elytra chestnut-red, legs piceous, abdomen and pectus 

 reddish ; clypeus strongly arcuate in front almost from the base, 

 suture deep, transverse ; prothorax of the same shape as the male, 

 but covered on the discoidal part with irregularly set foveate punc- 

 tures, and smaller and more closely set ones along the sides, in 

 the centre of the anterior part there is a narrow, shallow groove ; 

 scutellum sculptured as in the male but much more broadly rounded 

 at the apex ; elytra much more dilated laterally from near the 

 humeral part, much more coarsely punctured, more coriaceous 

 and with the dorsal striae more distinct; propygidium, pygidium, 

 and abdomen clothed with greyish hairs as in the male, the 

 pubescence is very much less dense and shorter on the pectus ; 

 the tarsi of the intermediate and hind legs are only half the length 

 of the tibia, the tri- jointed club of the antennae is thick, and about 

 half the length of all the other joints taken together, the sixth and 

 seventh joints are nodose, the eighth broadly dilated at the tip ; the 

 abdomen is very convex. 



Length 19J-23f mm. ; width 10J-13J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cradock, Barkly West). 



iEGOSTETHA longicornis, Fabric, 



Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 160. 



Male : Black, with the elytra brownish-red, legs black ; antennae 

 and palpi chestnut-red ; upper side glabrous except for a fringe 

 of flavescent hairs along the base ; clypeus sub-orbicular, with 

 no outer angles, and with the anterior margin very slightly 

 reflexed, plane, having an extremely faint, very often nearly 

 obliterated clypeal suture, closely and somewhat roughly punc- 

 tured like the head ; prothorax strongly narrowed obliquely 

 laterally from slightly past the median part to the apex, and 

 sinuate from beyond the middle towards the basal angle which 

 is sharp, broader at the base than at the median part, deeply and 

 closely punctured, and having a median longitudinal groove-like 

 impression in the anterior part ; scutellum deeply punctured ; 

 elytra sub-parallel and having on each side two somewhat faint 

 costules, covered with deep, slightly irregular punctures separated 



