1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 571 



a little broader than in A. tcstaceus, nearly parallel, much more 

 obliquely truncate laterally at the tip, and more broadly emarginate 

 in the centre. 



Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7-7^ mm. 



Rab. Natal (Durban), Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Ama- 

 tongaland), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Zambesi 

 River). 



Adoretus hoplioides, Boliem.," 



Plate XLI., tig. 5. 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 148. 



Upper side chestnut-red, moderately shining and without any 

 metallic sheen ; under side fuscous except on the sides, legs reddish 

 brown, tarsi piceous ; clypeus semicircular, finely granulose like the 

 greatest part of the head, and covered -with squamose white hairs 

 shorter than those clothing entirely the head ; the prothorax is 

 attenuated laterally in the anterior part, as far as the middle, and 

 thence nearly straight, covered with nearly contiguous punctures, 

 clothed with squamose white hairs and having three very plain 

 longitudinal bands of white scales, a median and a supra-marginal 

 on each side ; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra covered with nearly 

 contiguous cicatricose punctures, from each of which springs white 

 squamose hairs, there is only one not very distinct costa reaching 

 the apical callus which is moderately developed, but in addition 

 four rows of distant, very short bristles, having each in front a 

 somewhat conspicuous lanceolate white scale ; pygidium and legs 

 clothed with white hairs, sides of abdomen and pectus with white 

 scales. 



Length 9^^-10^^ mm. ; width 5-5f mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe) ; 

 Natal (Durban). 



This species is a very distinct one, owing to the three bands of 

 white scales on the prothorax, and the white scaly scutellum. 



Adoretus salisburiensis, n. spec.,. 

 Plate XLI., fig. 6. 



Black, with the elytra ferruginous brown ; head covered with 

 irregular, non-scabrose punctures, clypeus parabolic, a little more 

 elongate in the centre than in the other South African species, and 



* The generic name of this species, and also of A. variecjatuii, has been 

 erroneously printed Ericsthis in Boheman's " Insecta CaffrariEe." 



