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punctate, with scattered bristles ; hind tibiae evenly widened at the 

 apex and with two separate groups of setae on the outer side, 

 terminal spur almost as long as the first, very long tarsal joint, tarsi 

 of intermediate legs very slender ; claws more deeply cleft at the 

 apex; third and fourth joint of the antennae cylindrical, narrow, 

 fifth and sixth short, the latter very minute ; the three-jointed club 

 is longer than the pedicel, narrow, the last foliated joint has a 

 distinct longitudinal groove ; mentum plainly deplanate in front, 

 somewhat like in L. confinis. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hob. Transvaal, Lydenburg." 



Lepiserica zoutpaniana, Brensk., 

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



" Oval, opaque, brown above, somewhat spotted and opaline, the 

 antennae 9-jointed; very like L. ukamina, Brsk., but the scale-like 

 hairs are finer, the hind femora and tibiae less strong ; clypeus short, 

 broad, broadly rounded at the anterior angles, lightly emarginate in 

 front, with a broad ocular keel ; metallic, shiny, densely, finely 

 aciculate, with indistinct setiferous punctures at the anterior margin, 

 the frontal suture is less angularly curved ; frons and prothorax as 

 in L. lucidula, Pering., the densely tomentose elytra are distinctly 

 punctato-striate, the interspaces somewhat narrower than in 

 L. ukamina, the tessellated spots are faint, the punctures themselves 

 only recognisable by the fine hairs, the larger setose-like hairs are 

 very little distinct; the broader epipleural fold is somewhat narrower 

 in the middle, less sharply punctate at the apex, the outer angles 

 rounded ; the hind femora are a little narrower, very weakly curved 

 at the hind margin ; hind tibiae smooth. 



I cannot separate a female example from Lydenburg in the 

 Transvaal belonging to the Berlin Museum, in spite of the fact 

 that it has 10-jointed antennae. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal, Zoutpansberg." 



I have already stated my belief that this species is identical with 

 L. lucidula, Pering. 



Lepiserica benigna, Brsk., 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 233. 



" Just as dark brown as L. barbata, and very like this species also 

 in the elongate form, but more reddish-brown on the under side, 



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