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Etiseeica simplex, n. spec. 



Testaceous, with the elytra testaceous-yellow, and without any 

 sheen, glabrous ; antennae flavous ; clypeus truncate in front, 

 obliquely attenuated laterally, deeply punctate, frontal part 

 punctulate in the anterior part only, impunctate behind ; pro- 

 thorax much broader across the base than across the apex, very 

 slightly sinuate laterally, closely punctate, and, in the only example 

 which I have seen, without any lateral setae ; scutellum long, 

 punctulate ; elytra elongate, not much convex, somewhat deeply 

 striate, the striae punctulate, and the rounded intervals deeply 

 and closely punctate ; pygidium moderately convex, punctulate ; 

 abdominal segments also punctulate ; pectus glabrous, deeply 

 punctate ; in the male, the only sex known to me, the antennae 

 are 10-jointed, the seventh joint is quite laminate but much shorter 

 than the other three of which the club consists ; the anterior tibiae 

 are plainly tri-dentate outwardly. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



Gen. STENOSEEICA, Brensk., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 218. 



Buccal organs of the usual type ; clypeus plainly sub-acuminate 

 in the centre of the anterior margin ; clypeal suture plain ; antennae 

 9- jointed in both sexes, antennal club of male ovate, much shorter 

 than the pedicel ; prothorax short, not sinuate, and sub-angular 

 behind ; elytra elongated and somewhat convex ; posterior margin 

 of hind coxae nearly straight and angular and not covering the 

 fourth abdominal segment ; anterior tibiae bi- or tri-dentate out- 

 wardly ; claws of all the tarsi normally cleft and strongly divergent 

 in both sexes. 



The main character differentiating this genus from Stenoserica is 

 the bi-dentate instead of tri-dentate anterior tibia ; the coxae do not 

 also cover the fourth abdominal segment. 



Key to the Species. 



A. 2 Anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly. 



Pale light testaceous ; prothorax almost impunctate delagoana. 



Eufescent ; prothorax plainly punctulate decepto-r. 



A 1 . Anterior tibiae tri-dentate zambesicola* 



