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costules on each side, the sides of the prothorax, legs, and the under 

 side are testaceous ; clypeus and frontal part of the head very closely 

 scabroso-punctate and covered with dense fulvous appressed hairs 

 similar to those covering the prothorax and elytra, the latter is very 

 finely, deeply, and closely punctured, and the appressed hairs are 

 longer than in the other South African species ; scutellum somewhat 

 testaceous, hairy, and very closely punctate ; elytra covered with 

 cicatricose closely set punctures from each of which springs an 

 appressed hair^ which is set more close to each other on the four 

 costules on each side than on the intervals ; under side and legs 

 clothed with greyish hairs similar to, but less dense than, those on 

 the upper side. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Bedford). 



Adoeetus zambesiaxus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 14. 



Light brick-red, shiny but without a metallic tinge, clothed on the 

 upper surface w'ith very short appressed greyish white hairs, set 

 somewhat close to each other, the under surface and legs are clothed 

 with longer and less squamose white hairs ; head normally scabroso- 

 punctate, clypeus semicircular, suture distinct, the hairs on the head 

 and prothorax are plainly squamose, thicker and longer than those 

 on the elytra ; prothorax very short, covered with somewhat irregular 

 non-contiguous punctures ; scutellum covered with the same whitish 

 hairs as on the elytra which are plainly quadri-costate on each side, 

 with the intervals and the costai themselves filled and covered 

 respectively with contiguous cicatricose punctures, the apical callus 

 is not greatly developed ; the abdomen and the pectus are somewhat 

 infuscate. The genital armature differs from that of all the other 

 species, the sheath is open only at the apical part, which is very 

 declivous and tapering, narrowly incised in the middle, with the 

 two lobes narrow, but slightly rounded outwardly. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, between the Zambesi 

 and the Limpopo Elvers). 



Adoretus iMi'UKUs, Filhr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 15. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 71. 



Pale testaceous, somewhat shining but without a metallic tinge, the 

 head is fuscous, and on the prothorax are two discoidal fuscous 



