1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 569 



having a slight metaUic tinge, and no trace whatever of a median 

 groove or impression ; elytra not broader at the base than the 

 prothorax, a little ampliate laterally from about one-fom^th of the 

 length and only slightly narrowed in the posterior part, not very 

 convex, strongly callose on each side above the apical part, and 

 covered with closely set, almost contiguous, somewhat wide 

 punctures, imparting to them a coriaceous appearance, but hidden, 

 however, to a great extent by the appressed hairs ; the pygidium 

 and under side are covered with hairs similar to those on the upper 

 side in texture and colour, but somewhat longer. In the male the 

 hind trochanters are produced into a very long, acute spine ; the 

 genital armature is elongate, sub-parallel, obliquely narrowed out- 

 wardly at apex and deeply emarginate in the centre. 



Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6-6i mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Uitenhage), Port St. John. 



Burmeister's description was made from a female example. 



Adoeetus incongruens, n. spec. 

 Plate XLL, fig. 3. 



The description of A. tcstaceus applies almost entirely to this 

 species, which is, however, a little smaller, and has no slight 

 metallic tinge on the prothorax ; the elytra have also the evanescent 

 costules, and are somewhat metallic in the intervals; but whereas 

 it is difficult to recognise the female from that of A. ieiuiceus, the 

 male differs owing to spine of the hind trochanters being very short ; 

 the shape of the genital armature is very different ; the sheath is 

 open on the upper side for two-thirds of the length only, and instead 

 of being nearly parallel and only very slightly ampliate at the apex, 

 it broadens triangularly from the median part, is broadly and deeply 

 incised in the middle at the tip, and the two lobes are obliquely 

 truncate. 



Length 10-11 i mm. ; width 5^6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Adoretus fallaciosus, n. spec. 



Plate XLL, fig. 2. 



The male of this species is hardly to be distinguished from 

 A. incongruens in colour and general facies, but it is redder and has 

 no metallic tinge on the elytra which are not more plainly costulate, 

 but the punctures of which are a little shallower, and the whitish 

 appressed pubescence is denser ; the suture of the clypeus is hardly 



