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with the margins much reflexed, it is not distinctly scabrose, the 

 suture is obliterated, and the whole head is clothed with w^hite, not 

 dense, appressed hairs ; prothorax covered with somewhat round 

 punctures in the discoidal part, and very irregular ones on the sides, 

 the clothing of white appressed hairs is scanty ; scutellum clothed 

 with somewhat dense white hairs ; elytra not costulate, covered 

 with deep, round, closely set punctures with irregular, slightly 

 raised intervals imparting a strongly coriaceous appearance, from 

 each puncture springs a minute greyish-white, non-squamulose 

 hair, and there are on each side four rows of distant, very short, 

 white bristles, which are, however, seldom distinctly seen ; the 

 hairs of the pygidium are long, and those on the under side somewhat 

 scanty ; the legs are black and clothed with white hairs ; the inner 

 anterior claws are more deeply cleft than in the other species. 



Female unknown. 



Length 8^ mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Adoretus ictekicus, Burm., 

 Plate XLL, fig. 7. 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 469. 

 A. nigriceps, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 74. 



Testaceous or very pale testaceous, and without any metallic 

 reflection, but having along the base of the head a black band which 

 is prolonged along the eyes, the tarsi are reddish brown or piceous 

 red ; head broadly punctured, cl}"peus scabroso-punctate, and both 

 clothed with scattered small greyish appressed hairs, the suture is 

 very distinct ; prothorax covered with not closely set, round, 

 shallow punctures a little more cicatricose on the sides than on the 

 disk, each bearing a very short, appressed, non-squamose greyish- 

 white hair quite similar in shape and size to those of the elytra ; 

 scutellum sharply triangular, somewhat plainly costulate, deeply and 

 closely punctured but not coriaceous owing to the intervals between 

 the punctures not being much raised or sinuated, each puncture 

 bears a thin and short appressed hair not set closely enough to 

 form anything like a distinct clothing ; pygidium with long hairs ; 

 under side somewhat sparingly clothed with appressed greyish hairs 

 longer than those of the upper part. In the male the sheath of the 

 genital organ is open for three-fourths of the length, parallel for 

 three-fourths of the length and thence slightly ampliated, broadly 

 and semicircularly incised in the middle at apex, with the two lobes 

 somewhat diverging and acuminate at the tip. 



