1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 573 



Length 12-12^ mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port EHzabeth, Port St. John, Uitenhage), 

 Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg). 



Adoretus ovampoensis, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 8. 



Similar in shape, size, and colour to A. ictericus, but there is no 

 basal transverse fuscous band on the head, the suture is not fuscous, 

 the punctures are closer, deeper, and the pubescence is denser ; the 

 hind tarsi are infuscate ; the shape of the genital armature is very 

 different from that of A. ictericus ; it is completely open on the 

 upper side, very declivous, narrowed towards the apex and produced 

 there on each side into a bifid tooth set almost at right angles. 



Length 12-13 mm. ; width 6^ mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland (Evari Eiver). 



Adobetus fusculus, Fahr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 9. 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 77. 



This species is so closely allied to A. cribrosus that it might be 

 confused with it. The two fuscous patches on the prothorax are, 

 however, more distinct, the elytra are also browner, noticeably on 

 the sides, and the punctures, especially in the first interval, are 

 more rugose than in A. cribrosus, but those of the prothorax are 

 broader and less closely set ; the sheath of the male armature is also 

 entirely open on the upper side, but gradually and sharply acuminated 

 from past the middle to the apex where it is finely and not deeply 

 incised ; IEE3i the clypeus in the male is rounded and not emarginate 

 as in A. cribrosus <? . 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland (Kanye). 



Adeoetus mashunus, n. spec, 

 • Plate XLI., fig. 10. 



Head and prothorax brick-red, elytra chestnut-brown, legs and 

 under side testaceous ; clypeus parabolic, but slightly oblique laterally 

 at the base, scabrose, head scabroso-punctate, and both clothed with 

 some small appressed white hairs ; prothorax somewhat plainly 

 ampliated and rounded in the median lateral part, covered with 



