﻿572 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  with 
  the 
  margins 
  much 
  reflexed, 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  distinctly 
  scabrose, 
  the 
  

   suture 
  is 
  obliterated, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  head 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  white, 
  not 
  

   dense, 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  somewhat 
  round 
  

   punctures 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part, 
  and 
  very 
  irregular 
  ones 
  on 
  the 
  sides, 
  

   the 
  clothing 
  of 
  white 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  is 
  scanty 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  somewhat 
  dense 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  not 
  costulate, 
  covered 
  

   with 
  deep, 
  round, 
  closely 
  set 
  punctures 
  with 
  irregular, 
  slightly 
  

   raised 
  intervals 
  imparting 
  a 
  strongly 
  coriaceous 
  appearance, 
  from 
  

   each 
  puncture 
  springs 
  a 
  minute 
  greyish-white, 
  non-squamulose 
  

   hair, 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  four 
  rows 
  of 
  distant, 
  very 
  short, 
  

   white 
  bristles, 
  which 
  are, 
  however, 
  seldom 
  distinctly 
  seen 
  ; 
  the 
  

   hairs 
  of 
  the 
  pygidium 
  are 
  long, 
  and 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  somewhat 
  

   scanty 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  black 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  

   anterior 
  claws 
  are 
  more 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  species. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Southern 
  Rhodesia 
  (Salisbury). 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  ictekicus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  7. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  469. 
  

   A. 
  nigriceps, 
  Fahr., 
  Insect. 
  Caffr., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  74. 
  

  

  Testaceous 
  or 
  very 
  pale 
  testaceous, 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  metallic 
  

   reflection, 
  but 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  a 
  black 
  band 
  which 
  

   is 
  prolonged 
  along 
  the 
  eyes, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  are 
  reddish 
  brown 
  or 
  piceous 
  

   red 
  ; 
  head 
  broadly 
  punctured, 
  clypeus 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  and 
  both 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  scattered 
  small 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  the 
  suture 
  is 
  

   very 
  distinct 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  not 
  closely 
  set, 
  round, 
  

   shallow 
  punctures 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  cicatricose 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  

   disk, 
  each 
  bearing 
  a 
  very 
  short, 
  appressed, 
  non-squamose 
  greyish- 
  

   white 
  hair 
  quite 
  similar 
  in 
  shape 
  and 
  size 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  sharply 
  triangular, 
  somewhat 
  plainly 
  costulate, 
  deeply 
  and 
  

   closely 
  punctured 
  but 
  not 
  coriaceous 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  intervals 
  between 
  

   the 
  punctures 
  not 
  being 
  much 
  raised 
  or 
  sinuated, 
  each 
  puncture 
  

   bears 
  a 
  thin 
  and 
  short 
  appressed 
  hair 
  not 
  set 
  closely 
  enough 
  to 
  

   form 
  anything 
  like 
  a 
  distinct 
  clothing 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  with 
  long 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   under 
  side 
  somewhat 
  sparingly 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  

   longer 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  part. 
  In 
  the 
  male 
  the 
  sheath 
  of 
  the 
  

   genital 
  organ 
  is 
  open 
  for 
  three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  length, 
  parallel 
  for 
  

   three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  and 
  thence 
  slightly 
  ampliated, 
  broadly 
  

   and 
  semicircularly 
  incised 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  apex, 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  lobes 
  

   somewhat 
  diverging 
  and 
  acuminate 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  

  

  