1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 33 



■the angles distinct, and having in addition to the frontal arcuate 

 suture a transverse median one ; antennae 10-jointed in the male, 

 third joint of pedicel not longer than the fourth, antennal club four- 

 jointed, the joints equal in length, laminate, curving outwards, 

 nearly one-third longer than the head ; prothorax sloping forwards, 

 twice as broad as long, somewhat attenuate laterally in front, base 

 bi-sinuate ; scutellum and elytra of the normal shape ; pygidium 

 somewhat convex ; coxae slanting laterally ; anterior tibiae tri-den- 

 tate, anterior tarsi not elongate, claws normally cleft, ' but with the 

 lower tooth of the inner one broadly lobate, as in the genus 

 C amenta, and that of the outer claw normally curved but broader 

 than the upper ; upper hind spur of the hind tibiae as long as the 

 basal joint of the hind tarsi which is of the same length as the 

 ,second. 



Id^serica gratula, n. spec. 



Pale testaceous, with the elytra lighter than the rest of the body ; 

 -club of antennae fiavous ; clypeus narrowed laterally, very slightly 

 sinuate there at about one-third of the length, anterior margin nearly 

 straight, reflexed, but not distinctly aculeate in the centre, the two 

 sutures are shallow, and the whole clypeus is deeply punctate, the 

 punctures on the head are finer; the four-jointed antennal club of 

 the male — the female is not known — is curved and nearly one-third 

 longer than the whole head ; prothorax glabrous, but having a few 

 setae only along the outer margin, covered with fine, round punctures 

 separated from each other by a smooth interval of the same diameter ; 

 •scutellum long, sharp at apex, deeply punctate ; elytra slightly 

 broader laterally than the prothorax, striate and with the intervals 

 convex, sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and deeply, somewhat 

 coarsely punctured ; pygidium moderately convex, punctulate, 

 abdominal segments with the normal, briefly setulose transverse 

 row of punctures, coxae and metasternum deeply and regularly 

 punctured. 



Length 6f-7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Gen. CAMENTOSEBICA, Brensk., 



Plate XLVL, fig. 4. 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 220. 



Mentum of Serica, but somewhat elongated, maxillae of the 

 normal shape, last joint of maxillary palps fusiform, truncate at 

 the tip; clypeus separated from the frontal part by a slightly arcuate 



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