﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  577 
  

  

  patches 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  testaceous 
  band, 
  the 
  suture 
  is 
  

   faintly 
  fuscous, 
  the 
  whole 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  body 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  fine 
  

   appressed 
  not 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  granulose, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  

   slightly 
  oblique 
  laterally 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  rounded 
  in 
  front 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   quite 
  semicircular 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  plainly 
  reflexed 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  

   the 
  punctures 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  deep, 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  

   set, 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  faintly 
  costulate, 
  and 
  the 
  intervals 
  deeply 
  and 
  very 
  

   closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  the 
  sheath 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  is 
  

   open 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  elongate, 
  moderately 
  declivous, 
  bi-sinuate 
  

   laterally, 
  narrowing 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  incised 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  

   with 
  the 
  sides 
  very 
  obliquely 
  narrowed. 
  

  

  Length 
  10— 
  11-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  5-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Transvaal 
  (Johannesburg). 
  

  

  Adoketus 
  exaspekans, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  16. 
  

  

  In 
  colour, 
  shape, 
  size, 
  and 
  sculpture 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  so 
  very 
  much 
  

   like 
  A. 
  impurus 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  most 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  confused 
  with 
  it 
  

   unless 
  the 
  difference 
  in 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  of 
  the 
  

   male 
  is 
  noticed. 
  The 
  sheath 
  is 
  equally 
  long, 
  and 
  also 
  bi-sinuate 
  

   laterally, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  deeply 
  incised 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex 
  and 
  sharply 
  dentate 
  laterally. 
  

  

  Length 
  11 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Fort 
  Beaufort). 
  

  

  Adoeetus 
  fraudator, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

   Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  17. 
  

  

  Colour, 
  shape, 
  and 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  preceding 
  species, 
  but 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  has 
  no 
  discoidal 
  infuscate 
  patch, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  more 
  

   rounded 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  punctures 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  broader, 
  

   and 
  the 
  suture 
  is 
  hardly 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  the 
  club 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  is 
  much 
  

   more 
  elongate, 
  being 
  nearly 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  all 
  the 
  joints 
  taken 
  together, 
  

   and 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  differs 
  considerably 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  open 
  

   on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  and 
  suddenly 
  very 
  sharply 
  acuminate 
  from 
  about 
  

   the 
  median 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  apex 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  narrowly 
  incised, 
  somewhat 
  

   in 
  the 
  manner 
  of 
  A. 
  mashunus, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  less 
  declivous. 
  

  

  Length 
  10} 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Eshowe). 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  latiusculus, 
  n. 
  spec, 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Testaceous 
  without 
  any 
  metallic 
  sheen, 
  head, 
  median 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  shoulders 
  somewhat 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  half 
  as 
  

  

  37 
  

  

  