1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 335 



gradually ampliate laterally from the shoulder to past the median 

 part, but the humeral angle is not as much rounded in these two 

 species, the colouring is different, and the fourth joint of the tarsi is 

 divided in two long lobes. It should precede L. natalis. 



Lebia minima. 



Head, thorax, and antennae testaceous-red, elytra and legs flavous; 

 head nearly smooth ; prothorax also nearly smooth, nearly twice as 

 broad as long, slightly rounded laterally in the anterior part, but not 

 at all sinuate near the base ; elytra a little wider than the base of 

 the prothorax, ampliate laterally from some distance from the 

 humeral angle to a short distance from the apex, truncate and 

 hardly sinuate behind, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals 

 hardly raised, moderately shining, flavous, and with a sutural black 

 band, broadest at base, where it reaches the third stria, becoming 

 aculeate for about a quarter of the length, and reduced to a narrower 

 band extending only as far as the third stria ; this band reaches from 

 the base to three-quarters of the length, but there is also a straight, 

 moderately broad black band extending from side to side in the 

 apical part, and quite disconnected from the sutural band. Length 

 3 J- mm. ; width If mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth). 



The ampliate shape of the elytra recalls that of L. plagiata, Catal., 

 p. 259, but it is a very distinct species. 



Gen. PAEALEBIA, nov. gen. 



Generic characters of Lebia, but differentiated by the shape of the 

 labial palpi, the last joint of which is in the shape of an inverted 

 elongate cone broadly truncate at apex ; the prothorax is hardly if 

 at all sinuate laterally towards the posterior angle, the base is very 

 slightly produced in the middle, and the fourth joint of all the tarsi 

 is dilated, bi-lobate and spongy beneath ; the claws have five teeth 

 on each side. 



The species included in this new genus is distinguished from the 

 other species belonging to the South African Phlceozetus and Lebia 

 by the shape of the outer sides of the prothorax, which are much 

 more rounded and attenuate in the anterior part, and very much like 

 in shape that of Camarojitera, Chaud. 



