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and the hairs longer, but appressed; the wide, convex elytra have 
along the base, on each side of the scutellum, squamose appressed 
hairs longer and denser than those springing from the somewhat 
scattered, shallow punctures of the surface, and in addition five 
partly gemminate rows on each side of remote sub-erect, white, 
bristle-like hairs, but often partly rubbed off; under side with an 
opaline hue; coxe and metasternum occasionally with appressed 
hairs; basal inner part of hind femora strongly laminate; valves 
of genital armature slender, vertical, bi-sinuate, and symmetrical. 
Length 94-114 mm.; width 64-74 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe); Mozambique 
(Rikatla). 
In my example from Rikatla, the punctures on the clypeus are 
much less rugose ; and the seriate white hairs on the elytra are not 
partly rubbed off, this is probably due to the example having been 
preserved in spirits of wine. 
AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) PROTEANA, Nn. spec., 
Plate XLVI, fig. 19. 
Reddish-brown, faintly opaline on the upper side, more so on the 
under side, and with the head and prothorax slightly darker, or 
gradually turning to dark chestnut on the upper part; antennie 
reddish in the female, with the club longer than the pedicel in 
the male, and flavescent; clypeus bi-sinuate in front, owing to the 
median part being slightly, yet plainly aculeate, the anterior margin 
is strongly reflexed, the surface roughly punctate, and the head 
faintly punctured ; the body is somewhat elongated, nearly parallel; 
the punctures on the prothorax very fine, each with a most minute 
hair; elytra plainly costulate, each puncture bearing as minute a 
hair as on the prothorax, and each alternate costule having a series 
of small, equi-distant, sub-appressed whitish bristles; hind femora 
only slightly sinuate in the inferior margin and as broad at the base 
as it is at the apex; the genital armature of the male is very 
complicated. 
Length 8-94 mm. ; width 44-54 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 
AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) AUSTRALIS, Nn, spec., 
Plate XLVI., fig. 21. 
This species is hardly distinguishable from L. proteana in shape, 
sculpture, and colouring, but the anterior margin of the clypeus is 
