1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. na 
bt. Clypeus with the median part of the anterior margin not 
angular (gen., pls xlvi., tie. 20h. ie id ee es | | QUSENALIS. 
A‘, Elytra with the intervals costate, tectiform. 
Antenne of male longer than the head, the latter concolorous.. concordans. 
Antenne of male much longer than the head, the latter black.. distinguenda. 
AUTOSERICA TESSELLATA, N. spec. 
Plate XLVI, fig. 18. 
Light chestnut, slightly metallic, either lightly infuscate on the 
head and the central part of the prothorax and with equi-distant 
fuscous patches forming a tessellation on the plainly convex coste of 
the elytra, or so much suffused with a fuscous tinge that the tessella- 
tion is quite obliterated ; surface with a very short, squamiform hair 
on each puncture; antenne rufescent; club slightly flavescent ; 
elypeus slightly narrowed laterally towards the apex, which is 
nearly straight, and the margins moderately reflexed, separated from 
the head by an arcuate impressed line, deeply and somewhat 
roughly punctate, head with very shallow punctures; club of 
antenne not much longer in the male than in the female; 
prothorax also with shallow punctures; scutellum elongate, 
sharply triangular ; elytra gradually ampliated laterally towards the 
posterior part, convex, but more so in the female than in the male, 
plainly costate with the costz rounded, margin of epipleural fold 
with a fringe of short hairs; pygidium and abdomen with minute 
scales, metasternum with a long, median, longitudinal impressed 
line; anterior tibize bi-dentate; in the male the two valves are 
almost symmetrical and enclose an ovate open space. 
Length 74-9 mm.; width 44-51 mm. 
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe), Transvaal 
(Lydenburg). 
Closely allied to L. wkanuna, Brsk., but the naked spots on the 
elytra occur on the alternate costa. Herr Brenske informs me that 
the two species are not identical. 
AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) LUCIDULA, Péring., 
Plate XLVL., fig. 20. 
Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 35. 
Shape and colouring of LZ. mashona, the description of which suits 
entirely the present species; the tessellate denuded patches on the 
elytra are, however, not so dark in the light-coloured specimens, 
