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and therefore not so conspicuous ; the genital armature of the male 
is very different, the left lobe is very much longer than the right, 
strongly sinuate outwardly, broadly laminate, strongly arcuate 
inwardly near the apex the vertical edge of which is incised, the 
right lobe is short, narrow, and directed inwards. 
Length 6-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm. 
Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba); Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, 
Salisbury). 
AUTOSERICA ANNECTENS, Nn. spec. 
Fuscous or dark chestnut-brown, with a faint greenish-bronze 
tinge on the frontal part of the head, and on the discoidal part of the 
prothorax, it has no sericeous sheen, the under side is lighter 
chestnut-brown than the upper, and so are the legs, the antennal 
club is flavous in the male, and not longer than the pedicel, the 
sixth joint is almost rudimentary, but still visible under a high 
power, in the female the club is reddish-brown, and the joints of 
the pedicel normal; this species looks at first sight like a very small 
example of A. lucidula, but the frontal part is broadly and very 
deeply punctate all over, and has a median slightly raised longi- 
tudinal line; the prothorax is similarly shaped, and there is a 
minute hair in each puncture; the scutellum and elytra are also 
alike, and each puncture bears a minute greyish hair, the dark 
tessellation is also not very plain in some examples and more so in 
others, but the first interval is broader than the others, plainly 
convex and tectiform, and so are the other dorsal ones. 
This species resembles so much the female of A. concordans that, 
in spite of the subdued tessellation of the elytra and the presence of 
the minute scale-like hairs on the upper side, I took it to be the 
same, owing to the shape of the raised intervals of the elytra, until 
I got the male. The tessellation is completely obliterated in some 
examples. 
Length 64-64 mm. ; width 4-42 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Salisbury). 
AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) FARTULA, 0. spec. 
Fuscous with a metallic tinge, and occasionally with the elytra 
chestnut-brown and the costules darker, not tessellate ; the shape 
and sculpture of the head is the same as in the two preceding 
species, but the clypeus is very deeply punctured; the prothorax 
is covered with moderately closely set punctures bearing each a 
minute flavescent hair; the punctures on the scutellum are deep 
