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than the upper, and shorter; pro- and meso-sternum densely hairy, 
intermediate femora also hairy; scutellum somewhat short; first 
joint of hind tarsi longer than the second, upper apical spur as 
long as or longer than the basal joint. The shape of the genital 
armature of the male is of quite a different type from that of all 
the other South African species. 
Length 9-10 mm.; width 53-6 mm. 
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Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 
HYBOSERICA CAFFRA, Fahr., 
Triodonta caffra, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 139. 
Female: <A little shorter and more ampliated behind than 
C. globuliformis, and with a still more opalescent sheen, the 
clypeus is quite semicircular owing to the gen not projecting ; 
prothorax straight laterally from apex to base, much broader there 
than at the apex, deeply punctate but with the intervals wider than 
in C. globuliformis, and with only a few remote set laterally ; 
scutellum elongate, but broad at the base; elytra broadly ampliated 
laterally at a short distance from the base to near the apical part 
where it is one-fourth wider than at the base and rounded laterally 
above, obsoletely striate and very faintly costulate, deeply punctate ; 
mentum and anterior cox bristly; pectus and abdomen glabrous, 
deeply and closely punctate ; inner margin of posterior tibize with 
a lesser number of setze than in C. globuliformis ; basal joint of hind 
tarsi much longer than the second, upper apical spur shorter than 
the basal joint. 
Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm. 
Hab. Natal. 
Very closely allied to C. globuliformis, from which it differs by 
the non-projecting genx, the hairless intermediate cox, the less 
convex elytra, the longer basal joint of hind tarsi, and the less 
numerously bristly inner side of hind femora. 
Gen. PHILOSERICA, Brensk., 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 458. 
The main distinctive character of this genus is the vestiture which 
consists of stiff bristle-like upright hairs scattered on the elytra and 
prothorax; the metasternum does not in the least project between 
the intermediate coxe, and the mesosternum is deeply concave ; 
antenne 9-jointed; club of male shorter than the pedicel; anterior 
tibie tri-dentate. 
