28 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



than the upper, and shorter ; pro- and meso-sternum densely hairy, 

 intermediate femora also hairy ; scutellum somewhat short ; first 

 joint of hind tarsi longer than the second, upper apical spur as 

 long as or longer than the basal joint. The shape of the genital 

 armature of the male is of quite a different type from that of all 

 the other South African species. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5^—6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Hyboserica caffra, Fahr., 

 Trioclonta caffra, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 139. 



Female : A little shorter and more ampliated behind than 

 C. globuliformis, and with a still more opalescent sheen, the 

 clypeus is quite semicircular owing to the genae not projecting ; 

 prothorax straight laterally from apex to base, much broader there 

 than at the apex, deeply punctate but with the intervals wider than 

 in C. globuliformis, and with only a few remote setae laterally ; 

 scutellum elongate, but broad at the base ; elytra broadly ampliated 

 laterally at a short distance from the base to near the apical part 

 where it is one-fourth wider than at the base and rounded laterally 

 above, obsoletely striate and very faintly costulate, deeply punctate ; 

 mentum and anterior coxae bristly; pectus and abdomen glabrous, 

 deeply and closely punctate ; inner margin of posterior tibiae with 

 a lesser number of setae than in C. globuliformis ; basal joint of hind 

 tarsi much longer than the second, upper apical spur shorter than 

 the basal joint. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Natal. 



Very closely allied to C. globuliformis, from which it differs by 

 the non-projecting genae, the hairless intermediate coxae, the less 

 convex elytra, the longer basal joint of hind tarsi, and the less 

 numerously bristly inner side of hind femora. 



Gen. PHILOSERICA, Brensk., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 458. 



The main distinctive character of this genus is the vestiture which 

 consists of stiff bristle-like upright hairs scattered on the elytra and 

 prothorax ; the metasternum does not in the least project between 

 the intermediate coxae, and the mesosternum is deeply concave ; 

 antennae 9-jointed ; club of male shorter than the pedicel ; anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate. 



