336 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



Paealebia vicaria. 



Head and thorax brick-red, the sides of the latter paler, the three 

 basal joints of antennas flavescent, the other joints sub-infuscate, 

 legs fiavous ; elytra flavous and with a post-median transverse black 

 patch reaching from nearly side to side, bi-sinuate on both edges, 

 broadest on the space between the four intervals on each side and 

 narrowed from there towards the outer margin, which it barely 

 reaches ; the upper sutural point reaches nearly the median part of 

 the disk, but the lower one stops at some distance from the apex ; 

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

 as long, slightly rounded laterally in the anterior part, but with the 

 sides straight and not sinuate near the base ; elytra oblong, slightly 

 broader than the prothorax at base, striate, the striae finely punctured 

 and the intervals plane. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 J- mm. 



The shape of the black band on the elytra is not unlike that of 

 L. amabilis, Catal., p. 261, but it is more sinuate, and tapers more 

 towards the outer sides. 



Hab. Natal. 



Gen. ASTATA, 

 Catal., p. 265. 



ASTATA COGNATA. 



Antennae with the exception of the three basal joints reddish 

 brown, head and elytra piceous-brown, prothorax brownish red on 

 the discoidal part, outer sides, palpi, the three basal joints of 

 antennae and the legs sub-flavescent ; head very closely aciculate ; 

 prothorax very nearly twice as broad as long, rounded laterally in 

 the anterior part, nearly straight from the anterior seta to the 

 posterior angle, covered with a somewhat wavy aciculation ; elytra 

 about one-third broader than the prothorax at the base, gradually 

 ampliated from the shoulder to about three-fourths of the length 

 where they are twice as broad, truncate behind, and sinuate on each 

 side with the outer angle rounded, not sharp ; they are piceous or 

 piceous-red, with a wide diagonal sub-rufescent patch extending 

 from near the shoulder on the sixth interval to about the median 

 part of the elytra (close to the suture in one example), while in 

 another the black colour is reduced to a triangular patch on each 

 side of the scutellum, a lateral, moderately broad, outer margin, 

 and a diagonal and broader one in the posterior part, while the 

 clearer space is flavous ; the median part of the outer edge is flav- 



