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not aculeate ; the genital armature of the male is much simpler than 

 in L. proteana. 



Length 7-J— 8 \ mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Bathurst) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



AUTOSERICA RHODESIANA, n. Spec. 



Brownish-red with a fleshy tinge, a sericeous appearance, and a 

 sub-opaline sheen in fresh specimens ; clypeus slightly attenuate 

 laterally, slightly emarginate on the anterior part, but not aculeate 

 in the centre, very roughly punctured, clypeal suture arcuate and 

 plain, frontal part vaguely punctulate, club of antennae of male 

 long, but shorter than the head, and flavous ; prothorax very faintly 

 punctate, slightly attenuate laterally in the anterior part ; scutellum 

 closely punctate ; elytra elongate but slightly ampliate laterally 

 before the median part, costulate with the costules somewhat raised, 

 or moderately plane, the punctures very shallow and somewhat 

 indistinct, but each bearing a most minute greyish hair, the series 

 of longer and very remote hairs on the alternate costules are usually 

 obliterated on the disk, but can still be traced on the sides ; 

 pygidium, abdomen, coxae, and pectus with the usual sculpture 

 and vestiture. 



Closely allied in general appearance to flesh-coloured examples of 

 Neoserica carneola and N. natalensis, and distinguished merely by 

 the three-jointed club of the male. The shape of the genitalia of 

 the male differs much from that of the other South African species 

 of Autoserica and Neoserica, 



Length 8-9f mm. ; width 4f- 5J mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury) ; 

 Transvaal (Eustenburg). 



Autoserica concordans, n. spec. 



Smaller than A. rhodesiana, and more parallel, the head, prothorax, 

 and under side are fleshy-red, the elytra flavescent, it has a faint, 

 silky, not iridescent sheen ; the clypeus, the fore margin of which is 

 slightly sinuate and plainly angular in the centre, is foveolato- 

 punctate, and so is the anterior part of the head, the antennal club of 

 the male is very long, but a little shorter than the head, and the 5-7 

 joints of the pedicel are almost fused together, the suture being hardly 

 distinct even under a high magnifying power, but they are of normal 

 shape in the female, the fifth and seventh are aculeate inwardly, 

 the club is also normally elongato-ovate, but is longer than usual in 



