582 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. Tvol. xii. 



with the margin distinctly reflexed all round ; head and clypeus 

 conspicuously granulose ; prothorax very closely punctured, clothed 

 with long, appressed greyish hairs and having a plain longitudinal 

 impressed line in the centre ; elytra suh-costulate, intervals filled 

 with cicatricose punctures, giving them a very coriaceous appearance, 

 and clothed like the scutellum with long, decumbent greyish hairs. 

 In general appearance this species is closely related to A. jncticollis, 

 hut the appressed hairs forming the vestiture are longer ; the shape 

 of the genital armature is also somewhat similar, but the upper edge 

 of the valves is more apart, parallel for a short distance only and 

 thence more open and more sinuate. 



Length 12 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Seymour), Natal (Durban). 



One of my male examples has the anterior part of the clypeus 

 non-emarginate. 



Adoretus picinus, Ftxhr., 

 Insect. Caff'r., ii., p. 73 <? . 

 A. nasntus, F<\hr., loc. cit., p. 72 2 . 



Dark chestnut-brown, with a very distinct metallic sheen on the 

 upper side ; sides of pi'othorax, pectus, and legs testaceous ; head 

 and prothorax very closely granulose ; prothorax and elytra of the 

 normal shape, the former is somewhat closely punctured, the latter 

 only slightly costulate with the intervals cicatricose, and the whole 

 surface is clothed with somewhat long, appressed hairs ; the clypeus 

 is straight laterally at the base, thence obliquely rounded, broadly 

 emarginate in front in the male, only slightly in the female, and 

 with the margin conspicuously raised ; the shape of the genital 

 armature is not unlike that of A. tcstaccits, but it is a little narrower, 

 more parallel, and not slightly inflated laterally towards the apex. 



The co-type of A. i)icinus, Fahr., is undoubtedly the male of 

 A. nasntus, and the only example of this sex which I have seen. 

 Fahroeus states, however, in his description of A. picinus, that the 

 apical margin of the clypeus is rounded. 



Length ll|-12i mm. ; width 5i-6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska, Kakamas). 



Adoretus cuktulus, n. spec, pi. xli., fig. 25. 

 .Eneous, clothed with appiessecl, dense, greyish -white sijunuiose hairs; anteniHB 

 testaceous, club of a" very long ; clypeus straight laterally, arcuate in front, head 

 normally scabrose ; prothorax deeply and somewhat closely punctured, especially 

 laterally; elytra covered with similar punctures somewhat regularly seriate, and 

 having on each side three distant costie ; under side and legs moderately pubescent. 

 This species is very short, and comparatively very broad, and is thus easily 

 recognised by its facies. In the shape of the genital armature it approaches 

 A. capkola. 



