﻿582 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  with 
  the 
  margin 
  distinctly 
  reflexed 
  all 
  round 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  clypeus 
  

   conspicuously 
  granulose 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  very 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  long, 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  plain 
  longitudinal 
  

   impressed 
  line 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  elytra 
  sub-costulate, 
  intervals 
  filled 
  

   with 
  cicatricose 
  punctures, 
  giving 
  them 
  a 
  very 
  coriaceous 
  appearance, 
  

   and 
  clothed 
  like 
  the 
  scutellum 
  with 
  long, 
  decumbent 
  greyish 
  hairs. 
  

   In 
  general 
  appearance 
  this 
  species 
  is 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  A. 
  picticollis,. 
  

   but 
  the 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  forming 
  the 
  vestiture 
  are 
  longer 
  ; 
  the 
  shape 
  

   of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  is 
  also 
  somewhat 
  similar, 
  but 
  the 
  upper 
  edge 
  

   of 
  the 
  valves 
  is 
  more 
  apart, 
  parallel 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  only 
  and 
  

   thence 
  more 
  open 
  and 
  more 
  sinuate. 
  

  

  Length 
  12 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  7 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Seymour), 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  my 
  male 
  examples 
  has 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  

   non-emarginate. 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  picinus, 
  Fahr., 
  

   Insect. 
  Caffr., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  73 
  $ 
  . 
  

   A. 
  nasutus, 
  Fahr., 
  loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  72 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  Dark 
  chestnut-brown, 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  metallic 
  sheen 
  on 
  the 
  

   upper 
  side 
  ; 
  sides 
  of 
  prothorax, 
  pectus, 
  and 
  legs 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  head 
  

   and 
  prothorax 
  very 
  closely 
  granulose 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  of 
  the 
  

   normal 
  shape, 
  the 
  former 
  is 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  latter 
  

   only 
  slightly 
  costulate 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  cicatricose, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  

   surface 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  somewhat 
  long, 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  

   is 
  straight 
  laterally 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  thence 
  obliquely 
  rounded, 
  broadly 
  

   emarginate 
  in 
  front 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  only 
  slightly 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  margin 
  conspicuously 
  raised 
  ; 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  

   armature 
  is 
  not 
  unlike 
  that 
  of 
  A. 
  tcstaceus, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  narrower, 
  

   more 
  parallel, 
  and 
  not 
  slightly 
  inflated 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  The 
  co-type 
  of 
  A. 
  picinus, 
  Fahr., 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  

   A. 
  nasutus, 
  and 
  the 
  only 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  sex 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  seen. 
  

   Fahroeus 
  states, 
  however, 
  in 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  A. 
  picinus, 
  that 
  the 
  

   apical 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  rounded. 
  

  

  Length 
  11J- 
  12^ 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5^-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Prieska, 
  Kakamas). 
  

  

  Adoretus 
  curtulus, 
  n. 
  spec, 
  pi. 
  xli., 
  fig. 
  25. 
  

  

  /Eneous, 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed, 
  dense, 
  greyish-white 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  antennae 
  

   testaceous, 
  club 
  of 
  d" 
  very 
  long 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  straight 
  laterally, 
  arcuate 
  in 
  front, 
  head 
  

   normally 
  scabrose 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  deeply 
  and 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  especially 
  

   laterally 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  similar 
  punctures 
  somewhat 
  regularly 
  seriate, 
  and 
  

   having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  three 
  distant 
  costse; 
  under 
  side 
  and 
  legs 
  moderately 
  pubescent. 
  

   This 
  species 
  is 
  very 
  short, 
  and 
  comparatively 
  very 
  broad, 
  and 
  is 
  thus 
  easily 
  

   recognised 
  by 
  its 
  facies. 
  In 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  it 
  approaches 
  

   A. 
  capicola. 
  

  

  