﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptcra 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  bib 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  laticeps, 
  Fahr., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  12. 
  

   Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  69. 
  

  

  Ferruginous, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  slight 
  metallic 
  tinge 
  on 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  dense 
  greyish 
  white 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   the 
  head 
  is 
  very 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  still 
  more 
  

   scabrose, 
  parabolic 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  quite 
  semicircular 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   with 
  the 
  margin 
  plainly 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  very 
  closely 
  

   punctured, 
  but 
  the 
  punctures 
  are 
  shallow 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  median 
  

   impression 
  or 
  furrow; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  finely 
  coriaceous, 
  somewhat 
  

   depressed, 
  plainly 
  callose 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  not 
  costulate, 
  but 
  

   having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  four 
  rows 
  of 
  distant, 
  inconspicuous 
  round 
  

   impressions, 
  bearing 
  a 
  fulvous, 
  moderately 
  long 
  bristle. 
  The 
  genital 
  

   armature 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  less 
  declivous 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  A. 
  testaceus, 
  more 
  

   parallel, 
  incised 
  at 
  apex 
  with 
  each 
  lobe 
  obliquely 
  truncate 
  on 
  

   each 
  side. 
  

  

  Length 
  10-11J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5J- 
  5f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Griqualand 
  West), 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  

   (Upper 
  Limpopo). 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  fraudulentus, 
  n. 
  spec, 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  13. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  red, 
  under 
  

   side 
  and 
  legs 
  testaceous, 
  metallic 
  sheen 
  almost 
  indistinct 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   and 
  head 
  very 
  scabrose, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  

   clypeus 
  rounded 
  in 
  front, 
  but 
  straight 
  laterally 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  not 
  much 
  

   attenuate 
  laterally 
  in 
  front, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  punctures 
  which 
  on 
  the 
  

   sides 
  and 
  in 
  front 
  are 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  and 
  scabrose, 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  

   so 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk, 
  from 
  each 
  puncture 
  issues 
  a 
  small 
  

   greyish 
  white 
  appressed 
  hair 
  ; 
  elytra 
  somewhat 
  plainly 
  costulate 
  

   with 
  the 
  intervals 
  very 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  and 
  as 
  each 
  puncture 
  bears 
  

   an 
  appressed 
  hair, 
  these 
  hairs 
  form 
  a 
  somewhat 
  dense 
  coating 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  

   reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  the 
  outer 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  is 
  so 
  small 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  

   difficult 
  of 
  detection 
  ; 
  in 
  shape 
  the 
  sheath 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  

   resembles 
  a 
  little 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  A. 
  ictericus, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  sinuated 
  laterally 
  

   on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  less 
  incurved, 
  plainly 
  tri-dentate 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Length 
  llf 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  ? 
  Southern 
  Ehodesia, 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  inconditus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Head 
  and 
  basal 
  part 
  of 
  clypeus, 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  prothorax 
  

   and 
  elytra 
  fuscous 
  brown, 
  the 
  latter 
  have 
  four 
  distinct 
  testaceous 
  

  

  