20 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [Vvou. Xiu. 
paler underneath, opaque with very slight silky sheen, clypeus 
punctate, shiny, vertex, prothorax, and elytra with scattered 
punctures, in each puncture a little bristle; elytra striate, their 
interspaces blackened along the summit; legs with brighter silky 
sheen. My examples have no antenne left, and I can only assume 
that they are 9-jointed.” 
Gen. NEDYMOSERICA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 461. 
“The principal, but not remarkable characters of this genus are 
as follows: Mentum not deplanated in front, being evenly flattened, 
with long hairs; prothorax distinctly transverse ; elytra not striped ; 
hind coxee one and a half times as long across the outer margin as 
the episterna of the metasternum; sternum broad between the 
middle coxz ; hind femora thick, less broad, narrowed towards the 
apex; hind tibiae narrow, truncated at right angles at the apex; 
tarsi slender, finely cleft, the anterior ones somewhat shortened. 
The genus approaches Awtoserica, from which it differs by the flat 
mentum and the less widened femora; the body is thick but 
narrow, and the antennal club of the male is presumably 3-jointed.”’ 
NEDYMOSERICA FLAVIDA, Brensk., 
Loe. cit., p. 462. 
“Hab, Delagoa Bay. 
Length 65 mm. ; width 3°6 mm. ?. 
Opaque, pale golden-yellow, brightly opaline; antennz 9-jointed, 
slender, club small; clypeus broad, little narrowed, lightly sinuous 
in front, with a transverse depressed line and setigerous punctures 
behind the anterior margin, densely, almost finely wrinkly punctate ; 
prothorax produced in front in the middle, not widened laterally 
behind, lateral margins turning somewhat inwards from the middle, 
hind angles broadly rounded, marginal setze plain, hind margin finely 
rounded near the sides, surface finely punctate; scutellum narrow, 
acute, finely rounded off, finely punctate; elytra finely serially 
punctate in the deepened striz and irregularly punctate alongside of 
them, the narrow intervals weakly punctate, the setigerous punctures 
are very distinct, the sides have densely set, upright marginal sete ; 
pygidium somewhat narrow, convex, almost keel-like; abdomen 
densely and distinctly serially bristly on the segments, the bristles 
denser on the sides; the whole under side is most strikingly hairy 
and bristly; hind femora widened at the base, rapidly narrowed 
