1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 583 



{Species ivliich I have not been able to identify.) 



Adoretus atricapillus, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 261. 



"Elongate, pale testaceous, head black, clypeus short, ferruginous. 



Length 4 lin. 



One example from Sena. Similar to A. nigrifrons, but relatively 

 somewhat narrower, more strongly punctate and almost glabrous. 

 The clypeus, instead of being rounded and produced, is short and 

 truncate, with the margin only a little reflexed. The line which 

 divides the clypeus from the head is also more prominent, but not 

 straight, being arched inwards. The head only is dark brown, 

 almost black, the clypeus ferruginous, and the rest of the body 

 and the legs pale-yellowish. The apices of the femora, tibise and 

 tarsal joints are brown." 



Adoretus cupreus. Arrow, 

 Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1899, vol. iv., p. 121. 



" Elongato-ovate, broad, chestnut-brown with a coppery sheen 

 sparsely clothed with greyish hairs or scales on the upper side, and 

 more densely so on the under side ; head moderately large, rugose, 

 clypeus arcuate, wrinkled and ustulate ; prothorax three times 

 broader than long, very closely punctate, sparsely setulose ; scutellum 

 rugose ; elytra finely rugoso-punctate, obsoletely costate, sparingly 

 setulose, but with larger white scales scattered towards the costules, 

 sides wholly arcuate. 



Length 10^-12 mm. Female. 



This species has apparently some affinity with A. picinus, Bohem., 

 which, however, has the prothorax coarsely punctured and the sides 

 of the elytra straight as far as the middle. In A. cupreus the width 

 of the elytra is greatest at the middle, and the entire sculpture is 

 very fine and close. 



Hab. Barberton, and in Natal." 



Mr. Arrow is mistaken in saying that in A. picinus, Bohem., the 

 sides of the prothorax are straight as far as the middle. 



Adoretus murinus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 468. 



" Fuscous, clothed with a greyish pubescence ; outer margin of the 

 prothorax, costae of elytra and legs paler than the background. 

 Length 5 lin. 

 Hab. South Africa ; received from Drege. 



