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from the middle, enclosed with dense, fine setae on both margins; 

 hind tibiae paddle-shape, both groups of bristles on outer margin 

 remote from each other ; the apical spur is as long as the first tarsal 

 joint, joints robust, claws somewhat elongated, the anterior ones are 

 somewhat abbreviated, but not more strikingly so than in the other 

 Serica species; anterior tibiae very strongly bi-dentate." 



Gen. NEOSEEICA, Brensk., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, pt. iv. (1902), p. 437. 



The only difference beween Neoserica and Autoserica is the 

 number of joints in the club of the male, which is four instead 

 of three, and longer than the pedicel ; the punctures on the upper 

 side are not squamigerous. 



Key to the Species. 

 A 2 . Upper side with a silky sheen. 

 B-. Elytra faintly punctulate. 



a 2 . Club of the male longer than the head. 

 Club flavous. 



Prothorax hardly sinuate laterally carneola. 



Prothorax moderately sinuate laterally transvaalensis. 



a 1 . Club of the male shorter than the head. 



Club fuscous natalensis. 



A 1 . Upper side without a silky sheen. 



B 1 . Elytra plainly punctate obesa. 



Neosekica carneola, Pering., 



Plate XLVL, fig. 26. 



Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 34. 



N. barbara, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444. 



Light reddish-chestnut, with a fleshy tinge and a slight silky 

 sheen on the upper side, club of the antennae reddish-yellow, that 

 of the male flavous — and nearly, but not quite, as long as the 

 head and clypeus taken together; the clypeus is slightly nar- 

 rowed laterally towards the anterior margin, which is very slightly 

 bi-sinuate, owing to the centre being slightly aculeate, and the suture 

 bears a row of very short, rigid setae, it is covered with deep, con- 



