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behind the shoulder ; the under side is hairless ; the pygidium 

 acuminate ; the rows of bristle-bearing punctures of the abdominal 

 segments are only to be found on the sides ; the posterior femora 

 are very strongly broadened, opaquely punctured, somewhat shiny, 

 and with bristle-bearing punctures at the apex only ; posterior tibiae 

 strongly widened, with four groups of bristles, punctate at the base, 

 the terminal spur long, the tarsi strong ; metasternum without 

 punctures or hairs ; mesosternum wide, the setae at the apex very 

 weak ; mentum deeply deplanate ; club 3-jointed, strong and longer 

 than the pedicel in the male, short and small in the female. 



Length 9'10 mm. ; width 5*5 mm. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay." 



Lepisekica fasta, Brensk., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 225. 



" Eeddish-brown, strongly opaline, resembling L. benigna, thicker ; 

 head and prothorax very similarly formed, but the minute hairs in 

 the punctures there and on the elytra are somewhat more distinct, 

 and the white setae somewhat weaker ; the species is more easily 

 distinguished by the scutellum being evenly and finely punctured, 

 whereas in L. benigna the punctures are coarser, and the middle is 

 impunctate ; the elytra are evenly punctured, and have fine punctate 

 striae, the punctures are less coarse than in L. b'enigna and more 

 evenly distributed, the interspaces are indicated by narrower, some- 

 what dark stripes at the base, the hairs are crowded; the hind 

 femora are weakly widened, evenly broad, with dense rows of 

 bristles ; the deplanation of the mentum is distinct ; antennae 

 10-jointed, the last seven joints of the stalk are somewhat drawn 

 out inwardly, club shortly ovate ( ? ). 



Length 8 mm. ; width 4*7 mm. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay (Monteiro)." 



Serica confinis, Burrn., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 174. 



Form elongato-ovate, or almost cylindrical, the elytra as a rule 

 more distinctly and deeply striated; antennae 9-, club 3-jointed. 



" Oblongo-ovate, fuscous purplish, opaque, lighter underneath ; 

 elytra striate, intervals blackish, 



Length 4 lin. $ . 



From Kamrland, collected by Ecklon. Elongato-ovate, shaped 

 like the male of Serica variabilis, dark purple, red-brown above, 



