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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  closely 
  set, 
  rugulose 
  punctures, 
  which 
  are 
  less 
  numerous 
  in 
  the 
  

   median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk, 
  from 
  each 
  puncture 
  springs 
  a 
  minute 
  

   greyish 
  appressed 
  hair; 
  scutellum 
  brick-red; 
  elytra 
  not 
  conspicuously 
  

   costulate, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  small 
  and 
  very 
  dense 
  punctures 
  a 
  

   little 
  smaller 
  and 
  less 
  closely 
  set 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  

   giving 
  them 
  a 
  very 
  coriaceous 
  appearance, 
  the 
  whitish 
  pubescence 
  

   is 
  denser 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  greater 
  number 
  of 
  punctures, 
  and 
  I 
  cannot 
  

   find 
  any 
  traces 
  of 
  the 
  four 
  series 
  of 
  small 
  bristles 
  ; 
  the 
  pubescence 
  

   on 
  the 
  pygidium, 
  under 
  side, 
  and 
  legs 
  is 
  somewhat 
  dense 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  

   claw 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  legs 
  is 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  sheath 
  of 
  the 
  

   genital 
  armature 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  open 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  very 
  declivous 
  

   from 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  and 
  suddenly 
  narrowed 
  thence 
  into 
  two 
  long, 
  

   narrow 
  forcipate 
  lobes 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  incision. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Salisbury, 
  Sebakwe). 
  

  

  Adoeetus 
  variegatus, 
  Bohem., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  11. 
  

  

  Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  113. 
  

   i 
  

  

  A. 
  melanoleucus, 
  Pering., 
  Trans. 
  Entom. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  1896, 
  p. 
  161. 
  

   A. 
  decoratus, 
  Arrow, 
  Ann. 
  and 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  1899, 
  vol. 
  iv., 
  

   p. 
  121. 
  

  

  Chestnut-brown 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  head, 
  the 
  median 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  a 
  dorsal 
  series 
  of 
  patches 
  

   and 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  broad 
  band 
  aeneo-fuscous, 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  

   squamiform 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  forming 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  three 
  some- 
  

   what 
  plain 
  longitudinal 
  lines 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  the 
  scale-like 
  appressed 
  

   hairs 
  are 
  shorter 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  form 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  part 
  

   a 
  regular 
  series 
  of 
  transverse 
  white 
  patches 
  alternating 
  with 
  fusco- 
  

   seneous 
  transverse, 
  glabrous 
  ones, 
  and 
  there 
  are 
  also 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  

   more 
  white 
  patches 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  supra-lateral 
  part 
  ; 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  

   and 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  plainly 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  

   straight 
  laterally, 
  plainly 
  arcuate 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  

   somewhat 
  deep 
  setigerous 
  punctures, 
  more 
  abundant 
  and 
  more 
  

   closely 
  set 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  not 
  

   costulate, 
  covered 
  with 
  deep, 
  round, 
  setigerous 
  punctures 
  ; 
  in 
  shape 
  

   the 
  genital 
  armature 
  resembles 
  very 
  much 
  that 
  of 
  A. 
  capicola, 
  but 
  it 
  

   is 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  robust, 
  but 
  more 
  parallel 
  laterally 
  and 
  more 
  sinuate 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Buluwayo, 
  Enkeldoorn, 
  Sebakwe). 
  

  

  