60 Mr. G. J. Arrow on Melolonthine Coleoptera. 



atid February. Both are nocturnal, and hide in loose soil 

 during the day. 



There is another closely similar species, of which specimens 

 are probably included amongst those enumerated by Perin- 

 guey, and which I have wrongly determined as S. ver- 

 tiimnus in Denkschr. Med. Nat. Gesellsch. xiii. 1908^ p. 438. 

 I now call it 



Sp irrmannia .sm/Z/.s, sp. n. 



rullido flava, capite, pronoto, scutello, pectore abdornineque longe 

 et densissime laiiatis. S. Jinvce valde siinilis, sed clypeo paulo 

 minus ])rofunde exciso, elytris crebrius sed minus distiucte 

 punctatis tarsis(iuc paulo minus elongatis. 



Long. 22 mm.; lat. 11*5 mm. 



flah. S.W. Africa: Hererolaiul. 



This has an extremely close resemblance to S. Jlava^ but 

 the elytra are finely and confusedly, instead of strongly and 

 sparingly, punctnred, the clypeus is acutely, but less deeply, 

 notched in the middle, and its sides a little less rounded, and 

 tlie tarsi, or, at least, the middle ones of the male, are not 

 quite so long. The jedeagus ot" the male is drawn out into a 

 tube just behind the orifice. 



Upon p. 287 of his Catalogue already referred to, Mr. 

 Peringuey recognizes two South-African species only of the 

 genus Astheiiopholis — subfasciatusy Blanch., and crassus, 

 Arrow ; but the species to which he hns wrongly applied the 

 latter name is evidently the true A. adspersus^ Boh, { = irans- 

 vaalensis, Brenske), and in A. suhfasciatus he has included 

 the quite distinct A. minor, Brenske. These four species 

 may be distinguished as follows : — 



I. Scutolhim well punctured ; hind tibia little 



dilated at the end. 



a. Scales of the upper surface lonp: and liair-like . suhfasciatus, BI. 



b. Scales of the upper surfaco short and broad . . viinor, Brenske. 



II. !Scutelluin smooth or almost smooth ; hind tibia 



strongly dilated at the end. 



c. Pri)notum moderately covered with long setse. adspersus, Bohem. 



d. Pronotum closely covered with oval scales , . a-assus, Arrow. 



A. suhfasciatus seems to be confined to Cape Colony, 

 A. minor to Natal, A. adspersus to Natal and the Transvaal, 

 whilst A. crassus is known only from British East Africa. 

 Brenske's species were determined for me by himself, and 

 Mr. Peringuey has certainly determined them wrongly, 



