226 Annah of the South African Museum. 



FAMILY TENEBRIONID^E. 

 TRIBE ADESMIINI. 



GEN. ADESMIA, Fish. 

 ADESMIA (MACROPODA) KHOIKOINA, n. sp. 



Black, shining, suh-sphaerical, elytra abruptly dehiscent and 

 acuminate behind ; head closely punctate in the anterior part and 

 much less closely on the vertex ; pro thorax twice as broad as long, 

 impunctate on the discoidal part, but with a few punctures on the 

 sides, the flavous fringe of hairs in the anterior part is extremely 

 short; elytra globose from the base to two-thirds of the length, 

 almost declivous there and aculeate behind, the median anterior 

 part of the disk is smooth, but it is sparsely dotted thence with 

 round tubercles with smooth intervals, the sub-serrate outer margin 

 has close to it a row of similar tubercles not in the least connected 

 with the serration, epipleura with very faint traces of obsoletely 

 tuberculated impressions ; legs moderately long, rugose, basal 

 abdominal segments and part of the pectus strongly plicate 

 longitudinallv. 



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Shape of A. or at a, Oliv. its closer ally, and of A. yon/i, Sol. which 

 is, however, less convex in the anterior part of the elytra, but distin- 

 guished from both by the entirely smooth and impunctate intervals 

 separating the sparsely dotted tubercles of the elytra. 



Length 13| 15^ mm. ; width S-1H mm. 



Hah. Great Namaqualand. (Stockholm Museum.) 



ADESMIA (MACROPODA) DAMABA, n. sp. 



Black, sub-opaque ; head coarsely scrobiculate and having three 

 very deep and broad longitudinal grooves ; prothorax almost twice 

 as broad as long, straight laterally and with the anterior angles pro- 

 jecting conspicuously beyond the straight anterior margin, plane and 

 very coarsely scrobiculate ; elytra very broadly ampliato-ovate, very 

 little convex in the posterior part except at the declivity which is 

 abrupt, covered with broad, deep scrobiculate fovea? equal in width 

 in the dorsal part and separated by somewhat sharp yet finely granu- 

 lose walls, these granules are more conspicuous in the declivous part 

 where the foveae are shallower ; under side and legs roughly scro- 

 biculato-punctate. 



Allied to A. (Macrop.} scrobipennis, Haag. but larger, the head in 



