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tiguous, rough punctures, whereas on the frontal part the punctures 

 are very shallow and scattered ; prothorax with an anterior and a 

 lateral fringe of flavescent hairs and with also a few scattered 

 similar ones near the outer margins, it is somewhat deeply but not 

 closely punctate, and hardly sinuate laterally in the posterior part ; 

 scutellum punctate ; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, moderately con- 

 vex, striato-punctate with the intervals not raised, and punctate, 

 the punctures scattered ; in well-preserved examples the silky sheen 

 hides these punctures ; under side punctate, abdominal segments 

 with the usual transverse row of setigerous punctures ; upper spur 

 of hind tibiae as long as the basal tarsal joint. 



Herr Brenske has very kindly communicated me his type of 

 N. barbara. I have not examined its genital armature, but my 

 co-type, which is absolutely similar, has the same genital armature 

 as N. carneola. 



Length 8-9J mm. ; width 5-5f mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg) ; Cape Colony (Barkly 

 West), Ovampoland (Omrramba). 



Neoseeica transvaalensis, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 23. 



This species is so very much like N. carneola that but for the 

 different shape of the genital armature it might easily be mistaken 

 for it ; the frontal part is, however, more deeply and more closely 

 punctured, and the prothorax is more deeply sinuated laterally above 

 the basal angle. The female is unknown to me. 



Length 7-J— 8 mm. ; width 4-|— 4f mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg). 



Neoseeica natalensis, Brensk., 



Plate XLVL, fig. 25. 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444. 



Slightly less elongated than the two preceding species and slightly 

 wider in proportion to its length, this species is also closely allied to 

 N. carneola, its colour is, however, still more flesh-like, and the 

 sheen more pronounced ; the anterior margin of the clypeus is very 

 plainly aculeate in the centre, but all my examples lack the row of 

 short bristles on the clypeal suture ; the antennal club of the male is 

 more or less fuscous, and about shorter than the head by one-third. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 4 J— 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (George) ; Natal (Durban). 



