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



paler underneath, opaque with very slight silky sheen, clypeus 

 punctate, shiny, vertex, prothorax, and elytra with scattered 

 punctures, in each puncture a little bristle ; elytra striate, their 

 interspaces blackened along the summit ; legs with brighter silky 

 sheen. My examples have no antennae left, and I can only assume 

 that they are 9-jointed." 



Gen. NEDYMOSEEICA, Brensk., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 461. 



" The principal, but not remarkable characters of this genus are 

 as follows : Mentum not deplanated in front, being evenly flattened, 

 with long hairs ; prothorax distinctly transverse ; elytra not striped ; 

 hind coxae one and a half times as long across the outer margin as 

 the episterna of the metasternum ; sternum broad between the 

 middle coxae ; hind femora thick, less broad, narrowed towards the 

 apex ; hind tibiae narrow, truncated at right angles at the apex ; 

 tarsi slender, finely cleft, the anterior ones somewhat shortened. 



The genus approaches Autoserica, from which it differs by the flat 

 mentum and the less widened femora ; the body is thick but 

 narrow, and the antennal club of the male is presumably 3-jointed." 



Nedymoserica flavida, Brensk., 

 Loc. cit., p. 462. 



" Hob. Delagoa Bay. 



Length 6*5 mm. ; width 3*6 mm. 5 . 



Opaque, pale golden-yellow, brightly opaline; antennae 9-jointed, 

 slender, club small ; clypeus broad, little narrowed, lightly sinuous 

 in front, with a transverse depressed line and setigerous punctures 

 behind the anterior margin, densely, almost finely wrinkly punctate ; 

 prothorax produced in front in the middle, not widened laterally 

 behind, lateral margins turning somewhat inwards from the middle, 

 hind angles broadly rounded, marginal setae plain, hind margin finely 

 rounded near the sides, surface finely punctate ; scutellum narrow, 

 acute, finely rounded off, finely punctate ; elytra finely serially 

 punctate in the deepened striae and irregularly punctate alongside of 

 them, the narrow intervals weakly punctate, the setigerous punctures 

 are very distinct, the sides have densely set, upright marginal setae ; 

 pygidium somewhat narrow, convex, almost keel-like ; abdomen 

 densely and distinctly serially bristly on the segments, the bristles 

 denser on the sides ; the whole under side is most strikingly hairy 

 and bristly ; hind femora widened at the base, rapidly narrowed 



