

1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 281 



appressed hairs slightly squamiform ; abdominal segments also 

 clothed with similar hairs, which are, however, more sparse on the 

 thighs, and denser and longer on the pectus. 



Length 20-21 mm. ; width 11—11^ mm. 



I have seen a long series of this species, the colouring and 

 sculpturing of which is very constant. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Manica, Umtali, Sebakwe). 



Gen. PEGYLIS, Erichs., 



Ins. Deutschl., hi., p. 657. 



Mentum broad, strongly sinuate laterally, fused with the ligular 

 part, which is very broadly and deeply notched in front into two 

 sub-quadrate lobes covered with thick hairs on the outer face ; apical 

 joint of labial palpi ovato-acuminate, the three joints of nearly the 

 same length ; maxilla? very robust, bluntly toothed at the tip and 

 with irregularly bifid teeth below the upper one, last joint of maxillary 

 palpi somewhat slender, fusiform, truncate at the tip and a little 

 longer than the second joint ; mandibles arcuate, with a sharp cutting 

 edge, the right one ending in a sharp arcuate tooth ; the antennae 

 9-jointed in the male, 10-jointed in the female ; club tri-jointed and 

 longer in the male than in the female in which sex all the joints are 

 very distinct, but in the male the fifth and sixth joints are fused into 

 one, and the seventh is very minute and fits again the base of the 

 first joint of the club ; labrum vertical, bi-lobate ; clypeus semi- 

 circular but deeply emarginate in front, separated from the head by 

 an impressed line ; eyes large ; prothorax more than twice broader 

 than long, ampliated laterally past the median part, not much con- 

 vex, strongly bisinuate along the base ; scutellum cordate ; elytra 

 somewhat plane, a little broader at the shoulders than the prothorax,. 

 ampliated laterally beyond the shoulders, not costulate, covering the 

 whole propygidium and the base of the pygidium ; abdominal seg- 

 ments fused, mesosternum simple, legs somewhat slender, anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, but with the basal tooth very weak ; no 

 inner spur, the posterior ones without any oblique ridges ; tarsi 

 moderately long, claws robust, hooked, each one cleft at the tip in 

 the manner of Schizovycha, and also aculeate at the base. 



Pegylis conspuecata, Gerst., 



Arch. f. Naturgesch.,xxxiii., l,p. 42; Die Glied. Faun. Sansibar.,p. 112. 



Testaceous-red, moderately shining, each puncture on the upper 

 side bearing minute greyish hairs; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen 



