﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  571 
  

  

  a 
  little 
  broader 
  than 
  in 
  A. 
  testaceus, 
  nearly 
  parallel, 
  much 
  more 
  

   obliquely 
  truncate 
  laterally 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  and 
  more 
  broadly 
  emarginate 
  

   in 
  the 
  centre. 
  

  

  Length 
  13-14 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  7-7} 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban), 
  Mozambique 
  (Lourenco-Marquez, 
  Ama- 
  

   tongaland), 
  Transvaal 
  (Eustenburg), 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Zambesi 
  

   Eiver). 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  hoplioides, 
  Bohem.,* 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

  

  Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  148. 
  

  

  Upper 
  side 
  chestnut-red, 
  moderately 
  shining 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  

   metallic 
  sheen 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  fuscous 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  sides, 
  legs 
  reddish 
  

   brown, 
  tarsi 
  piceous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  semicircular, 
  finely 
  granulose 
  like 
  the 
  

   greatest 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  head, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  squamose 
  white 
  hairs 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  those 
  clothing 
  entirely 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  

   attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  

   thence 
  nearly 
  straight, 
  covered 
  with 
  nearly 
  contiguous 
  punctures, 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  squamose 
  white 
  hairs 
  and 
  having 
  three 
  very 
  plain 
  

   longitudinal 
  bands 
  of 
  white 
  scales, 
  a 
  median 
  and 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  nearly 
  

   contiguous 
  cicatricose 
  punctures, 
  from 
  each 
  of 
  which 
  springs 
  white 
  

   squamose 
  hairs, 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  one 
  not 
  very 
  distinct 
  costa 
  reaching 
  

   the 
  apical 
  callus 
  which 
  is 
  moderately 
  developed, 
  but 
  in 
  addition 
  

   four 
  rows 
  of 
  distant, 
  very 
  short 
  bristles, 
  having 
  each 
  in 
  front 
  a 
  

   somewhat 
  conspicuous 
  lanceolate 
  white 
  scale 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  legs 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  white 
  hairs, 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomen 
  and 
  pectus 
  with 
  white 
  

   scales. 
  

  

  Length 
  9J- 
  10J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5-5f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Buluwayo, 
  Enkeldoorn, 
  Sebakwe) 
  ; 
  

   Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  one, 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  

   white 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  the 
  white 
  scaly 
  scutellum. 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  salisburiensis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  ; 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  ferruginous 
  brown 
  ; 
  head 
  covered 
  with 
  

   irregular, 
  non-scabrose 
  punctures, 
  clypeus 
  parabolic, 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  

   elongate 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  South 
  African 
  species, 
  and 
  

  

  * 
  The 
  generic 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  species, 
  and 
  also 
  of 
  A. 
  variegatm, 
  has 
  been 
  

   erroneously 
  printed 
  Eriesthis 
  in 
  Boheman's 
  " 
  Insecta 
  Caffrariae." 
  

  

  