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Hab. Transvaal (Leydenburg). 



Smaller and less depressed in the posterior part than 

 R. albostriata, Burm., and also less densely squamose ; 

 the head is also shorter in proportion, and the clypeus 

 not at all emarginate, and the claws are not quite so 

 much developed. Female unknown. 



Gen. AnomalAj Samouelle. 

 A. pinguis, n. sp. 



Testaceous, with the head infuscate, the prothorax somewhat 

 brick-red and the elytra black, with a long and broad humeral 

 yellowish band ; antennse and palpi ruf escent ; intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi infuscate ; anterior and intermediate tibiae infus- 

 cate laterally, posterior ones black ; clypeus one-third shorter 

 than the head, separated by a narrow transverse groove, and very 

 closely and deeply punctured like the head, but more rugose; 

 prothorax convex, a little attenuated laterally from the apical 

 angle to the median part, straight from there to the basal angle, 

 finely but not closely aciculate ; elytra moderately elongate, slightly 

 depressed laterally below the humeral angle, a little ampliated 

 from the median to the posterior part, convex, retuse behind, and 

 having on each side three smooth raised lines, intervals irregularly 

 punctured but with a distinct series of punctures on each side of 

 the raised lines ; the scutellum is testaceous, and the yellowish, or 

 sometimes testaceous, lateral band on the elytra extends from the 

 outer margin to about the median part of the width of each wing- 

 cover, for about one-third of the length, and is prolonged from 

 there as a narrow discoidal band, extending as far as the median 

 part, where it is somewhat aculeate ; underside pale-yellow. Length 

 18-19, width 10 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



RUTELIDES. 



Gen. Adoretus, Cast. 



A. vielanoleucns, n. sp. 



Head and prothorax piceous-brown, with a faint greenish metallic 

 tinge, outersides of the prothorax sub-rufescent ; antennae reddish- 

 brown, with the club black ; legs piceous, with the exception of 

 the anterior ones, which are rufescent; clypeus distinctly margined, 

 with the margin recurved, nearly as long as the head, and 

 both covei'ed with long, squamiform hairs ; prothorax bi-sinuate 

 in front and behind, lateral part also sinuate behind, and a little 



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