1904.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 15 



this sex ; the pro thorax is very finely and closely punctulate, more 

 parallel and more sinuate laterally in the posterior part in the male 

 than in the female ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra elongated, 

 sub-parallel in the male, less so in the female, deeply striate, the 

 striae filled with conspicuous punctures broader in the male than in 

 the female, but the punctures are hairless, the intervals being plainly 

 tectiform in both sexes with the exception of the second which is 

 more plane than the others, and also wider ; pygidium convex in the 

 male, hardly so in the female, deeply punctate, the punctures not 

 closely set ; transverse seriate row of bristles on the abdominal seg- 

 ments strong ; hind tibiae not quite so broadly dilated inwardly as in 

 the other species of the genus, spurs reaching only to half the length 

 of the basal tarsal joint in the male, and proportionately longer in the 

 female ; the lower tooth of the anterior claws of the male is sub- 

 quadrato-lobate in the male, and therefore wider than in the 

 preceding species of Autoserica, but this character can only be 

 looked upon as specific. 



Length 6^-7 mm. ; width 3|— 4 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury). 



Autoserica distinguenda, n. spec. 



Very closely allied to A. concordans, the colour is redder all over, 

 and the frontal part black, the iridescent sheen is also more 

 pronounced ; in the male the yellow antennal club is very much 

 longer than the head and the joints of the pedicel quite free, thus 

 distinguishing it easily from A. distinguenda ; the female is of a 

 slightly heavier build than A. distinguenda, which it, however, 

 closely resembles, and the punctures on the intervals impinge 

 more on the sides of the costae than they do in the other species. 



Length 7-7^- mm. ; width 3f- 4f mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



(Species which I have not seen or identified.) 



Herr Brenske has described the six following species : — 



A 2 . Antennse nine- jointed barbata ; lydenburgiana ; zontpaniaiia, 



A 1 . Antennse ten- jointed benigna ; delagoana ; fasta. 



Lepiserica barbata, Brensk., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 232. 



" Opaque, opaline, very dark-brown, legs, antennae, mouth parts 

 reddish-brown, prothorax also reddish-brown, shining; antennae 



