22 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. Xt. 
tiguous, rough punctures, whereas on the frontal part the punctures 
are very shallow and scattered; prothorax with an anterior and a 
lateral fringe of flavescent hairs and with also a few scattered 
similar ones near the outer margins, it is Somewhat deeply but not 
closely punctate, and hardly sinuate laterally in the posterior part ; 
-scutellum punctate; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, moderately con- 
vex, striato-punctate with the intervals not raised, and punctate, 
the punctures scattered; in well-preserved examples the silky sheen 
hides these punctures; under side punctate, abdominal segments 
with the usual transverse row of setigerous punctures ; upper spur 
of hind tibiz as long as the basal tarsal joint. 
Herr Brenske has very kindly communicated me his type of 
N. barbara. I have not examined its genital armature, but my 
co-type, which is absolutely similar, has the same genital armature 
as N. carneola. 
Length 8-94 mm.; width 5-53 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg); Cape Colony (Barkly 
West), Ovampoland (Omrramba). 
NEOSERICA TRANSVAALENSIS, 0. spec., 
Plate XLVI, fig. 23. 
This species is so very much like N. carneola that but for the 
different shape of the genital armature it might easily be mistaken 
for it; the frontal part is, however, more deeply and more closely 
punctured, and the prothorax is more deeply sinuated laterally above 
the basal angle. The female is unknown to me. 
Length 74-8 mm. ; width 41-42 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg). 
NEOSERICA NATALENSIS, Brensk., 
Plate XLVL., fig. 25. 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444. 
Slightly less elongated than the two preceding species and slightly 
wider in proportion to its length, this species is also closely allied to 
N. carneola, its colour is, however, still more flesh-like, and the 
sheen more pronounced; the anterior margin of the clypeus is very 
plainly aculeate in the centre, but all my examples lack the row of 
short bristles on the clypeal suture; the antennal club of the male is 
more or less fuscous, and about shorter than the head by one-third. 
Length 7-8 mm.; width 44-5 mm. | 
Hab. Cape Colony (George) ; Natal (Durban). 
