1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 575 



Adoretus laticeps, Fahr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 12. 

 Insect. Catfrar., ii., p. 69. 

 Ferruginous, with a very slight metallic tinge on the head and 

 prothorax, and clothed with a very dense greyish white pubescence ; 

 the head is very scabroso-punctate, the clypeus is still more 

 scabrose, parabohc in the male, quite semicircular in the female, 

 with the margin plainly reflexed ; the prothorax is very closely 

 punctured, but the punctures are shallow ; there is no median 

 impression or furrow; the elytra are finely coriaceous, somewhat 

 depressed, plainly callose on each side at the apex, not costulate, but 

 having on each side four rows of distant, inconspicuous round 

 impressions, bearing a fulvous, moderately long bristle. The genital 

 armature of the male is less declivous than that of A. testaccus, more 

 parallel, incised at apex with each lobe obliquely truncate on 

 each side. 



Length 10-11| mm. ; width 5^-5f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Upper Limpopo). 



Adoretus feaudulentus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 13. 

 Head and prothorax reddish brown, elytra testaceous red, under 

 side and legs testaceou's, metallic sheen almost indistinct ; clypeus 

 and head very scabrose, and clothed with greyish appressed hairs, 

 clypeus rounded in front, but straight laterally ; prothorax not much 

 attenuate laterally in front, and covered wath punctures which on the 

 sides and in front are very closely set and scabrose, but a Httle less 

 so in the median part of the disk, from each puncture issues a small 

 greyish white appressed hair ; elytra somewhat plainly costulate 

 with the intervals very closely punctured, and as each puncture bears 

 an appressed hair, these hairs form a somewhat dense coating ; tarsi 

 reddish brown ; the outer claw of the hind legs is so small as to be 

 difficult of detection ; in shape the sheath of the genital armature 

 resembles a little that of a ^4. ictericus, but it is more sinuated laterally 

 on the upper side, less incurved, plainly tri-dentate at the apex. 



Length 11| mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. ? Southern Rhodesia. 



Adoretus inconditus, n. spec. 

 Female : Head and basal part of clypeus, median part of prothorax 

 and elytra fuscous brown, the latter have four distinct testaceous 



