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closely set, rugulose punctures, which are less numerous in the 

 median part of the disk, from each puncture springs a minute 

 greyish appressed hair; scutellum brick-red ; elytra not conspicuously 

 costulate, and covered with very small and very dense punctures a 

 little smaller and less closely set than those of the prothorax and 

 giving them a very coriaceous appearance, the whitish pubescence 

 is denser owing to the greater number of punctures, and I cannot 

 find any traces of the four sei'ies of small bristles ; the pubescence 

 on the pygidium, under side, and legs is somewhat dense ; the inner 

 claw of the anterior legs is deeply cleft at the apex ; the sheath of the 

 genital armature of the male is open on the upper side, very declivous 

 from the median part, and suddenly narrowed thence into two long, 

 narrow forcipate lobes sepai'ated by a narrow incision. 



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



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe). 



Adoketus vakiegatus, Bohem., 



Plate XLI., fig. 11. 



Insect. Catfrar., ii., p. 113. 



A. vielanolciLCHS, Paring., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 161. 

 A. dccoratns, Arrow, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1899, vol. iv., 

 p. 121. 



Chestnut-brown on the upper side, but with the head, the median 

 part of the prothorax, and on the elytra a dorsal series of patches 

 and a supra-marginal broad band oeneo-fuscous, covered with white 

 squamiform appressed hairs forming on the prothorax three some- 

 what plain longitudinal lines ; on the elytra the scale-like appressed 

 hairs are shorter than on the prothorax, and form on the dorsal part 

 a regular series of transverse white patches alternating with fusco- 

 aeneous transverse, glabrous ones, and there are also two or three 

 more white patches in the posterior supra-lateral part ; the under side 

 and hind tibiae are plainly fuscous ; clypeus broader than long, 

 straight laterally, plainly arcuate in front ; prothorax covered with 

 somewhat deep setigerous punctures, more abundant and more 

 closely set on the sides ; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra not 

 costulate, covered with deep, round, setigerous punctures ; in shape 

 the genital armature resembles very much that of A. capicola, but it 

 is not quite so robust, but more parallel laterally and more sinuate 

 on each side at the apex. 



Length 8^8f mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



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



