1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 23 



Neoserica obesa, Paring., 

 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 35. 



Female : Chestnut-red, with only a slight fleshy tinge and a very 

 faint metallic sheen ; clypeus very roughly, although not deeply 

 punctured, anterior margin very slightly sinuate but not angular 

 in the centre, the clypeal arcuate suture is almost obliterated, and 

 the punctures on the frontal part are shallow but somewhat closely 

 set ; prothorax of the usual shape and sculpture but with the sides 

 fringed with somewhat long hairs ; scutellum very closely punctu- 

 late ; elytra elongated, but somewhat ampliated laterally in the 

 posterior part, and plainly convex there, sub-costulate in the 

 anterior part only, punctato-striate, the interstices are plainly and 

 somewhat closely punctured, and there are on each side six rows 

 of somewhat remote, very small whitish hairs ; coxae and meta- 

 sternum deeply punctured, and with a plain metallic sheen, the 

 hind margin of the former is straight ; the club of the antennae 

 is flavescent. 



This species is much more deeply punctured than the same sex 

 of both N. earmold and N. natalensis, and the prothorax is more 

 strongly attenuated laterally in the anterior part. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Ovampoland. 



ETISEEICA, n. gen. 



Mentumof Auto- and Neoserica ; clypeus more obliquely narrowed 

 towards the anterior, truncate, and not much reflexed part ; antennae 

 of male 10-jointed, the seventh antennal joint laminate, but very 

 short ; elytra elongated, deeply striate ; anterior tibiae plainly tri- 

 dentate ; claws normally cleft, but the inner one is very slightly 

 wider than the outer ; anterior tarsi somewhat short, the inter- 

 mediate and posterior long, the basal joint of hind tarsi is as long 

 as the second, upper hind spur as long as the basal joint ; lower 

 margin of hind coxae straight ; hind femora and tibiae moderately 

 broadened inwardly. 



This genus differs from Stenoserica by the more acuminate clypeus 

 which is not unlike that of a Trochalid but is not aculeate in the 

 centre of the anterior margin, the much more oblique genae, and the 

 absence of hairs along the outer margin of prothorax and elytra, and 

 also on the pectus. 



