16 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. X11. 
9-jointed; clypeus scarcely marginate, very slightly sinuate in 
front, the corners rounded, and having a fine transverse line 
close behind the anterior margin, very densely and coarsely 
punctulate, the frontal suture very indistinct, scarcely noticeable ; 
prothorax not produced in front, the sides almost straight, the hind 
angles rounded, marginal sete very weak, not densely. punctate ; 
scutellum large; elytra with distinctly raised costules, the costules 
densely, coarsely, almost rugosely punctate, interspaces narrow, 
without punctures, darkened by some scattered, very fine bristle- 
bearing punctures, the marginal set fine and short; pygidium 
strongly convex, almost opaquely punctate, acuminate; the bristle- 
bearing punctures of the abdominal segments very weak ; posterior 
cox very sparingly and finely bristly at the sides only, hind femora 
not compressed, flat, narrow, acuminate towards the apex and 
distinctly sinuate before the tip, and with a weakly projecting 
angle, the hind margin with tolerably crowded punctures, the 
setigerous punctures but little prominent; hind tibie slender, 
coarsely punctate, and with two groups of bristles externally, the 
terminal spur as long as the first tarsal joint, these tarsal joints not 
very strong, those of the anterior tarsi short ; middle cox approxi- 
mated, median part of sternum brown, very briefly pubescent ; 
mentum with a dense, long pubescence. 
Length @-5 mm. ; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Port Natal.” 
LEPISERICA LYDENBURGIANA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 432. 
‘« Hlongato-oval, not thick, opaque, uniformly brown, with a short, 
hairless clypeus; antennz 9-jointed; facies of Awtoserzca, clypeus 
broad, but little narrowed and very short, densely and deeply 
punctate, base of ocular keels strong, frons flat in the middle, with 
a distinct, finely raised longitudinal line; prothorax somewhat less 
broad, straight at the sides, hind angles lightly rounded off, anterior 
margin slightly produced in the middle, finely and densely punctate, 
without hairs or scales; elytra finely but distinctly striate, the 
deepened striz, in which the punctures are scattered and not seriate, 
are as broad as the raised interspaces and have solitary bristly hairs, 
base without hairs, epipleural striz broad only at the base, equally 
narrow behind; scutellum small, the margins hairless; pygidium 
convex, somewhat acuminated; abdomen flat, punctate, with 
distinct rows of sete; hind femora little broadened, somewhat 
narrower before the apex which is distinctly angular, sparingly 
