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'9-jointed; clypeus scarcely marginate, very slightly sinuate in 

 front, the corners rounded, and having a fine transverse line 

 close behind the anterior margin, very densely and coarsely 

 punctulate, the frontal suture very indistinct, scarcely noticeable ; 

 prothorax not produced in front, the sides almost straight, the hind 

 angles rounded, marginal setae very weak, not densely punctate ; 

 scutellum large ; elytra with distinctly raised costules, the costules 

 densely, coarsely, almost rugosely punctate, interspaces narrow, 

 without punctures, darkened by some scattered, very fine bristle- 

 bearing punctures, the marginal setae fine and short ; pygidium 

 strongly convex, almost opaquely punctate, acuminate ; the bristle- 

 bearing punctures of the abdominal segments very weak ; posterior 

 coxae very sparingly and finely bristly at the sides only, hind femora 

 not compressed, fiat, narrow, acuminate towards the apex and 

 ■distinctly sinuate before the tip, and with a weakly projecting 

 angle, the hind margin with tolerably crowded punctures, the 

 setigerous punctures but little prominent ; hind tibiae slender, 

 coarsely punctate, and with two groups of bristles externally, the 

 terminal spur as long as the first tarsal joint, these tarsal joints not- 

 very strong, those of the anterior tarsi short ; middle coxae approxi- 

 mated, median part of sternum brown, very briefly pubescent ; 

 mentum with a dense, long pubescence. 



Length 8*5 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Bab. Port Natal." 



Lepiserica lydenburgiana, Brensk., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 432. 



" Elongato-oval, not thick, opaque, uniformly brown, with a short, 

 hairless clypeus ; antennae 9-jointed ; facies of Autoserica, clypeus 

 broad, but little narrowed and very short, densely and deeply 

 punctate, base of ocular keels strong, frons flat in the middle, with 

 .a distinct, finely raised longitudinal line ; prothorax somewhat less 

 broad, straight at the sides, hind angles lightly rounded off, anterior 

 margin slightly produced in the middle, finely and densely punctate, 

 without hairs or scales ; elytra finely but distinctly striate, the 

 deepened striae, in which the punctures are scattered and not seriate, 

 are as broad as the raised interspaces and have solitary bristly hairs, 

 base without hairs, epipleural striae broad only at the base, equally 

 narrow behind ; scutellum small, the margins hairless ; pygidium 

 convex, somewhat acuminated ; abdomen flat, punctate, with 

 ■distinct rows of setae ; hind femora little broadened, somewhat 

 narrower before the apex which is distinctly angular, sparingly 



