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behind the shoulder; the under side is hairless; the pygidium 
acuminate ; the rows of bristle-bearing punctures of the abdominal 
segments are only to be found on the sides; the posterior femora 
are very strongly broadened, opaquely punctured, somewhat shiny, 
and with bristle-bearing punctures at the apex only; posterior tibiz 
strongly widened, with four groups of bristles, punctate at the base, 
the terminal spur long, the tarsi strong; metasternum without 
punctures or hairs; mesosternum wide, the sete at the apex very 
weak ; mentum deeply deplanate; club 3-jointed, strong and longer 
than the pedicel in the male, short and small in the female. 
Length 9:10 mm.; width 5°5 mm. 
Hab. Delagoa Bay.”’ 
LEPISERICA FASTA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 225. 
“ Reddish-brown, strongly opaline, resembling Z. benzgna, thicker ; 
head and prothorax very similarly formed, but the minute hairs in 
the punctures there and on the elytra are somewhat more distinct, 
and the white setae somewhat weaker; the species is more easily 
distinguished by the scutellum being evenly and finely punctured, 
whereas in L. benigna the punctures are coarser, and the middle is 
impunctate ; the elytra are evenly punctured, and have fine punctate 
stria, the punctures are less coarse than in L. benigna and more 
evenly distributed, the interspaces are indicated by narrower, some- 
what dark stripes at the base, the hairs are crowded; the hind 
femora are weakly widened, evenly broad, with dense rows of 
bristles; the deplanation of the mentum is distinct; antennze 
10-jointed, the last seven joints of the stalk are somewhat drawn 
out inwardly, club shortly ovate (9). 
Length 8 mm.; width 4:7 mm. 
Hab. Delagoa Bay (Monteiro).”’ 
SERICA CONFINIS, Burm., 
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 174. 
Form elongato-ovate, or almost cylindrical, the elytra as a rule 
more distinctly and deeply striated; antenne 9-, club 3-jointed. 
“‘Oblongo-ovate, fuscous purplish, opaque, lighter underneath ; 
elytra striate, intervals blackish. 
Length 4 lin. g. 
From Kaffirland, collected by Ecklon. Elongato-ovate, shaped 
like the male of Serica variabilis, dark purple, red-brown above, 
