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distinct, and the scutellum is a little shorter and has only a few 

 punctures; the most distinctive character is found in the shape of the 

 genital sheath, which is open entirely on the upper side, narrowed 

 towards the apex where it is deeply but somewhat narrowly incised, 

 and with the two lobes parallel and vertical. The spine of the 

 hind trochantei'S is short. 



Female unknown. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Hah. British Bechuanaland (Kanye). 



Adoketus illitus, n. spec. 



Female : Chestnut-brown with a distinct metallic tinge, clothed 

 on the upper side with short and very dense squamulose whitish- 

 grey hairs, hiding the background ; the head and clypeus are 

 normally scabrose and the suture is indistinct; the prothorax is very 

 closely punctured and has no median impression ; the scutellum is 

 very j&nely punctulate, and the elytra are not costulate, and are 

 covei-ed with very small and very closely set punctures which are 

 not scar-like, except along the outer margins. 



This species, which in general appearance resembles ^4. faUaciosus, 

 is distinguished from it by the finer and denser non-cicatricose 

 punctures on the elytra, which are also non-costulate. 



The male is unknown to me. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5|- mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Adoketus punctipexms, Fahr., 



Plate XLL, fig. 4. 



Insect Catfr., ii., p. 67. 



Closely allied to A. teHt a con s ; the shape of the head, prothorax, 

 and elytra is the same, but the contiguous punctures on the head are 

 slightly more scabrose, and the suture between the head and the 

 clypeus is less carinate ; the series of white, sub-erect, short hairs 

 on the elytra are plainer, but there is no costule, and in front of each 

 remote white hair there is a very small denuded round spot, which, 

 in the anterior part, is faintly granular ; the greyish-white hairs are 

 also denser and in fresh examples hide the ferruginous colour ; 

 the under side and legs are clothed with appressed hairs similar in 

 texture to those of the upper part, but slightly longer, and on the 

 pygidium there is a narrow denuded longitudinal median line. In 

 the male the hind trochanters are simple, and the genital armature 



