388 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



Gabata semipunctata, 

 Plate XVIII., figs. 6 and 7. 



Elongate, chestnut red, antennae and legs paler, rufous, pubescence 

 fine and short, decumbent and whitish ; head coarsely and densely 

 punctate, hardly as broad as the prothorax, much attenuate in front 

 with the sides oblique, a very deep transverse channel separates the 

 frontal part from the head, two deep and oblique sulci make an acute 

 angle whose apex is above the transverse sulcus, and between those 

 sulci the surface of the head is somewhat raised ; behind, on the 

 vertex, there is a faint and short longitudinal depression ; antennae 

 short, with the basal joints much larger than the others, the first is 

 square, second briefly ovate, third to eighth moniliform, ninth and 

 tenth a trifle larger and transverse, eleventh much larger and ovate ; 

 prothorax finely and sparsely punctate, longer than broad, cordiform, 

 and having three foveas — two large lateral ones and a much smaller 

 median one — connected by a fine transverse sulcus, and an exceed- 

 ingly faint longitudinal sulcus disappearing in front ; elytra impunc- 

 tate, longer than broad, a little attenuate at base, with the shoulders 

 rounded and mutic, and having two large grooves at the base and a 

 large dorsal sulcus ending before the median part ; abdomen longer 

 than the elytra, the three first dorsal segments equal, fourth larger, 

 first and second a little impressed at the base in the middle ; under 

 part of the head coarsely punctate ; metasternum a little transverse 

 and convex ; second, third, and fourth ventral segments equal, fifth 

 smaller, sixth as long as the fourth, depressed in the middle, with a 

 blunt tubercle in each side on the edge, seventh small, transverse, 

 paler than the others, densely pubescent, and with a faint longitu- 

 dinal depression ; tibiae a little thickened past the middle. Male. 

 Length 1*60 mm. 



The female is not known. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Gen. EAFFEAYIA, Eeitter, 

 Catal., p. 62. 



The number of species included in this genus, which seems to be 

 decidedly a South African one, is constantly on the increase. In the 

 previous Catalogue I mentioned 19 species, and to-day 26 are known, 

 which makes it necessary for me to give a remodelled synopsis. 



