1904. | Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. at 
from the middle, enclosed with dense, fine setz on both margins; 
hind tibiz paddle-shape, both groups of bristles on outer margin 
remote from each other ; the apical spur is as long as the first tarsal 
joint, joints robust, claws somewhat elongated, the anterior ones are 
somewhat abbreviated, but not more strikingly so than in the other 
Serica species; anterior tibiz very strongly bi-dentate.”’ 
Gren. NEOSERICA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, pt. iv. (1902), p. 437. 
The only difference beween Neoserica and Autoserica is the 
number of joints in the club of the male, which is four instead 
of three, and longer than the pedicel; the punctures on the upper 
side are not squamigerous. 
Key to the Species. 
A?. Upper side with a silky sheen. 
B’. Elytra faintly punctulate. 
a*, Club of the male longer than the head. 
Club flavous. 
Prothorax hardly sinuate laterally... .. .. .. .. carneola. 
Prothorax moderately sinuate laterally.. .. .. .. transvaalensis. 
at, Club of the male shorter than the head. 
Clubsuscousmen- ease tee eed] sa Latalenses: 
At. Upper side without a silky sheen. 
Be Blyiraplainlypunctatees a -. 45 6. = =. =. Obesa. 
NEOSERICA CARNEOLA, Péring., 
Plate XLVL., fig. 26. 
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 34. 
N. barbara, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444. 
Light reddish-chestnut, with a fleshy tinge and a slight silky 
sheen on the upper side, club of the antenne reddish-yellow, that 
of the male flavous—and nearly, but not quite, as long as the 
head and clypeus taken together; the clypeus is slightly nar- 
rowed laterally towards the anterior margin, which is very slightly 
bi-sinuate, owing to the centre being slightly aculeate, and the suture 
bears a row of very short, rigid sete, it is covered with deep, con- 
