1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 143 



briefly pubescent, the frontal part is somewhat scrobiculate, very 

 plainly carinate laterally and densely hairy especially on the vertex ; 

 club of antennae more than twice as long as the pedicel, the joint 

 preceding the club sub-laminate ; prothorax clothed with a very 

 dense fulvous pubescence, finely shagreened, rounded laterally just 

 a little before the median part ; sinuate in the posterior the outer 

 angle of which is sharp ; scutellum covered with a pubescence 

 similar to that of the prothorax; elytra very coriaceous, and 

 covered with minute flavescent appressed hairs springing from 

 every interstice, plainly sinuate laterally, depressed on the dorsal 

 part, the juxta-sutural stria is well defined, and there is on each 

 side two very faint dorsal striae and two supra-lateral costules, 

 the margins, including the sutural ones, have a fringe of densely 

 set, short, fulvous ciliae ; propygidium, pygidium, and abdominal 

 segments aciculate, each puncture bearing a fine somewhat flaves- 

 cent hair, these hairs being much more dense on the upper side of 

 the segments ; pectus and femora covered with a very dense, long, 

 light fulvous pubescence ; intermediate and posterior tibiae with a 

 very rudimentary oblique carina, anterior ones bi-dentate outwardly 

 but having also an indication of a third rudimentary basal tooth ; 

 hind tarsi somewhat bristly underneath ; apical spurs of hind tarsi 

 sharp. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Periclitopa gariepina, n. spec. 



Piceous, with the antennae fulvous, the long pubescence clothing 

 the prothorax, the scutellum and the pectus is light fulvous ; head 

 and clypeus closely and roughly punctured, briefly pubescent, but 

 the hairs on the vertex are long ; the clypeus is plainly narrowed 

 laterally towards the truncate apical part and is separated from the 

 head by a very sharp keel, the ledge on the vertex is very plain and 

 is united with the clypeal keel by a longitudinal median ledge ; the 

 club of the antennae is three times as long as the whole pedicel and 

 strongly curved, the joint preceding the club is produced into a 

 short laminated process ; prothorax finely shagreened, moderately 

 rounded laterally, but slightly less narrowed towards the posterior 

 than towards the anterior part, and with the basal angle rounded ; 

 elytra sub-parallel, but slightly narrower at the posterior declivous 

 part than at the base, strongly coriaceous and with a minute, 

 appressed greyish hair in each interstice ; pygidial part with 

 appressed, somewhat long hairs ; abdominal segments more deeply 



