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occasionally one or two discoidal fuscous bands (yittata) ; head and 

 clypeus deeply but only moderately closely punctured, each puncture 

 bearing a very fine appressed greyish hair, clypeus arcuate but 

 obtuse and slightly sinuate in front, and with the intervals between 

 the punctures plainly coriaceous, attenuate laterally in the anterior 

 part, very little ampliated in the centre, and only very slightly 

 narrower across the base, the angles of which are sharp, than across 

 the median part, there is a median longitudinal impressed line, the 

 punctures are moderately shallow and not very closely set, and only 

 the lateral ones bear a minute hair, the anterior margin is briefly 

 and the median part of the basal one very densely pubescent ; elytra 

 glabrous, coriaceous, covered with deep, nearly confluent punctures 

 and having on each side two costules somewhat distinct but oblite- 

 rated in the anterior part ; pygidium strongly sloping, clothed with 

 greyish appressed hairs ; abdominal segments punctate, each punc- 

 ture bearing a short somewhat scale-like hair, pectus and legs with 

 appressed, longer hairs ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate but occasionally 

 with a slightly angular basal sinuation ; basal part of claws some- 

 what angular, sub-median part with a sub-vertical tooth, and of 

 equal length in the female, but with the inner one quite obliterated 

 in the anterior legs on the male, and also on the four posterior ones. 



Length 17-22 mm. ; width 9|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Willowmore, Port Elizabeth, 

 Graham's Town, Seymour, King William's Town, Griqualand 

 West);- Natal (Durban, Frere, Umvoti, Maritzburg, Echowe); Trans- 

 vaal. 



This species is very common in the eastern parts of the Colony, 

 in Natal and in the Transvaal. In Natal it causes serious damage 

 to the plantations of wattle-trees (Acacia mollis sima, W.). 



PEGYLIDIUS, n. gen. 



Mentum twice as broad as long and very deeply incised laterally 

 at its junction with the ligular part, the suture of which is quite 

 obliterated, this ligular part is broadly rounded laterally, and very 

 deeply emarginate in the middle in front, last joint of labial palpi 

 fusiform, not quite as long as the two preceding ones put together ; 

 maxillae robust, ending in a compressed bifid tooth at the apex, and 

 having two sharply bifid teeth on each side under the apical one, 

 lower lobe distinct and ending in a pencil of hairs ; maxillary paips 

 fairly long, the last joint fusiform and acuminate at tip, slightly 

 longer than the second, not impressed laterally ; mandibles robust, 

 arcuate, sharply toothed at the tip, and with a strong cutting edge 



