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this sex; the prothorax is very finely and closely punctulate, more 
parallel and more sinuate laterally in the posterior part in the male 
than in the female; scutellum closely punctate; elytra elongated, 
sub-parallel in the male, less so in the female, deeply striate, the 
striz filled with conspicuous punctures broader in the male than in 
the female, but the punctures are hairless, the intervals being plainly 
tectiform in both sexes with the exception of the second which is 
more plane than the others, and also wider; pygidium convex in the 
male, hardly so in the female, deeply punctate, the punctures not 
closely set ; transverse seriate row of bristles on the abdominal seg- 
ments strong; hind tibize not quite so broadly dilated inwardly as in 
the other species of the genus, spurs reaching only to half the length 
of the basal tarsal joint in the male, and proportionately longer in the 
female; the lower tooth of the anterior claws of the male is sub- 
quadrato-lobate in the male, and therefore wider than in the 
preceding species of Awtoserica, but this character can only be 
looked upon as specific. 
Length 64-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury). 
AUTOSERICA DISTINGUENDA, 0. spec. 
Very closely allied to A. concordans, the colour is redder all over, 
and the frontal part black, the iridescent sheen is also more 
pronounced ; in the male the yellow antennal club is very much 
longer than the head and the joints of the pedicel quite free, thus 
distinguishing it easily from A. distinguenda; the female is of a 
slightly heavier build than 4d. distinguenda, which it, however, 
closely resembles, and the punctures on the intervals impinge 
more on the sides of the cost than they do in the other species. 
Length 7-74 mm. ; width 34-43 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
(Species which I have not seen or identified.) 
Herr Brenske has described the six following species :— 
A?, Antenne nine-jointed .. .. .. barbata; lydenburgiana; zoutpaniana. 
At. Antenne ten-jointed .. .. .. benigna; delagoana; fasta. 
LEPISERICA BARBATA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 232. 
‘Opaque, opaline, very dark-brown, legs, antennz, mouth parts 
reddish-brown, prothorax also reddish-brown, shining; antenne 
