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long in the centre as wide, very parabolic, very scabrose, head more 

 closely scabroso-punctate than the clypeus, both with a very short 

 appressed pubescence partly obliterated in my example ; prothoi'ax 

 not much attenuated laterally in front, covered with closely set 

 punctures separated from each other by a space corresponding to 

 half their diameter, and having in the median part of the disk a 

 transverse lozenge-shaped shallow impression ; scutellum punctu- 

 late ; elytra not quite as broad at the base as the base of the 

 prothorax, but much more so towards the apical part, plainly 

 costulate, the costae are impunctate but the intervals are filled 

 with closely set but not contiguous, moderately regular punc- 

 tures ; the four series of bristles cannot be detected in my example 

 which is a female, the carina of the epipleural fold is deeply punc- 

 tured at remote intervals ; the larger anterior claw is deeply cleft at 

 the apex, and the inner claw of the hind legs is very small, but 

 distinct. 



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



Hah. Transvaal (Barberton). 



Adoeetus dissidens, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 18. 



Testaceous, but somewhat infuscate on the upper side, and with a 

 slight metallic sheen more noticeable on the head and prothorax ; 

 head and clypeus granuloso-punctate, the former is nearly straight 

 laterally at the base and parabolic in front ; the punctures of the 

 prothorax are small, but very closely set, especially on the sides, and 

 there is a slight median longitudinal impression, the small, white 

 appressed hairs clothing the head and prothorax are only moderately 

 dense ; the elytra are distinctly costate, the costae are lighter than 

 the rest of the background, but are interrupted at regular intervals 

 by a fuscous patch which imparts to them a tesselated appearance, 

 the intervals are filled with somewhat irregular, closely set, mode- 

 rately deep punctures, the greyish appressed pubescence is some- 

 what dense ; the hind legs and all the tarsi are ferruginous ; the 

 sheath of the genital armature of the male is entirely open on tbe 

 upper side, parallel, straight transversely at the tip but slightly 

 attenuate obliquely laterally. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt). 



Adoretds sebakdensis, n. spec, pi. zliii., fig. 29. 

 Pale testaceous, the head is a little infuscate, the whole body, except the le^s, is 

 covered with a coatinf; of white squamose haii-s hiding; the l)ack},'round ; the hind 

 tavsi are fuscous ; the clypeus of the male is much more parallel than in any of the 

 other South African species and quite transverse in front, but in the female it is 

 plainly arcuate ; the prothorax and elytra are very closely punctured, but the 

 punctures are hidden by the vestiture. the elytra are very obsoletely tri-costate on 

 each side, and the apical part of the pyj,'idium has no squamose hairs. In general 

 appearance it is not unlike A. cdjiicoln, but is easih' recognised by the shape of the 

 head, the absence of spinose trochanters in the male, the less distinctly costulate 

 elytra, and the denser and whiter coating of squamose hairs ; the shape of the 



