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the angles distinct, and having in addition to the frontal arcuate 
suture a transverse median one; antenne 10-jointed in the male, 
third joint of pedicel not longer than the fourth, antennal club four- 
jointed, the joints equal in length, laminate, curving outwards, 
nearly one-third longer than the head; prothorax sloping forwards, 
twice as broad as long, somewhat attenuate laterally in front, base 
bi-sinuate ; scutellum and elytra of the normal shape; pygidium 
somewhat convex; cox slanting laterally; anterior tibie tri-den- 
tate, anterior tarsi not elongate, claws normally cleft, but with the 
lower tooth of the inner one broadly lobate, as in the genus 
Camenta, and that of the outer claw normally curved but broader 
than the upper; upper hind spur of the hind tibiz as long as the 
basal joint of the hind tarsi which is of the same length as the 
second. 
IDHSERICA GRATULA, N. spec. 
Pale testaceous, with the elytra lighter than the rest of the body ; 
club of antenne flavous; clypeus narrowed laterally, very slightly 
sinuate there at about one-third of the length, anterior margin nearly 
straight, reflexed, but not distinctly aculeate in the centre, the two 
sutures are shallow, and the whole clypeus is deeply punctate, the 
punctures on the head are finer; the four-jointed antennal club of 
the male—the female is not known—is curved and nearly one-third 
longer than the whole head; prothorax glabrous, but having a few 
sete only along the outer margin, covered with fine, round punctures 
separated from each other by a smooth interval of the same diameter ; 
scutellum long, sharp at apex, deeply punctate; elytra slightly 
broader laterally than the prothorax, striate and with the intervals 
convex, sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and deeply, somewhat 
coarsely punctured; pygidium moderately convex, punctulate, 
abdominal segments with the normal, briefly setulose transverse 
row of punctures, coxe and metasternum deeply and regularly 
punctured. 
Length 63-7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
Gren. CAMENTOSERICA, Brensk., 
Plate XLVL., fig. 4. 
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 220. 
Mentum of Serica, but somewhat elongated, maxille of the 
normal shape, last joint of maxillary palps fusiform, truncate at 
the tip; clypeus separated from the frontal part by a shghtly arcuate 
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