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Tolerably vivid brown, shiny on account of the sparseness of the 

 hairy coating and punctures. Antennae, palpi, sides of pronotum 

 and legs yellowish brown ; the scutellum and also the four small 

 costae of the elytra and even sometimes the abdomen and sternum 

 of the same colour, hind angles of pronotum rounded ; the hairs of 

 the male are shorter and whitish, those of the female are longer, 

 grey with a tinge of yellow ; tarsi darker brown than the rest of the 

 leg. The small head distinguishes this species at once from all the 

 others.'" 



Burmeister assigns also to this species delicately formed mouth 

 parts, a scarcely crenular labrum, fine and pointed maxillary teeth, 

 tarsi long and thin, and hind coxae wdth a narrow but long truncate 

 process. 



Adobetus subcostatus, Klug, 

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



" Elongate, pale testaceous, head brown, elytra rugoso-punctate, 

 sub-costate. 



Length 4-|- lin. 



One example from Tette. In regard to shape and colouration what 

 has been said of A. atricapillus holds good for this species also, 

 excepting that the head is simply brown. With regard to the 

 sculpturing, the punctures on the prothorax and elytra are par- 

 ticularly deeper, those on the latter being connected by transverse 

 wrinkles. Besides there are three only slightly raised lines (of 

 which traces occur in A. nigrifons) extending along the whole length 

 of the elytra. The tarsi ai'e brown. One example from Tette 

 (Mozambique)." 



Adoketus tarsatus, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Reis., p. 260. 



" Elongate, fuscous, clothed with a whitish pubescence, sides of 

 prothorax, pectus, abdomen, and legs pallid, tarsi ferruginous. 

 Length 4 lin. 



Adobetus kahlei, Nonfr., Entom. Nachr., 1892, p. 110. 



"Oblong, convex; purple, persicino-setose, under side shining, suffused with 

 purple, densely squamose. Head sub-rotund, deeply punctate, shining, briefly 

 setose, clypeus rounded, distinctly marginate; antenme red; thorax plane, deeply 

 and closely punctate, shining, purple, densely setose ; scutellum cordate, vaguely 

 punctate. Elytra convex, elongate, parallel, granulated, briefly but densely setose, 

 shining. Pygidium aciculate, opaque. Legs and tarsi setose, with the setfb 

 somewhat fulvous, shining; anterior tibia; sharply tridentate. Length 14 mm. 

 Zambesi River. 



