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and the hairs longer, but appressed ; the wide, convex elytra have 

 along the base, on each side of the scutellum, squamose appressed 

 hairs longer and denser than those springing from the somewhat 

 scattered, shallow punctures of the surface, and in addition five 

 partly gemminate rows on each side of remote sub-erect, white, 

 bristle-like hairs, but often partly rubbed off ; under side with an 

 opaline hue ; coxae and metasternum occasionally with appressed 

 hairs ; basal inner part of hind femora strongly laminate ; valves 

 of genital armature slender, vertical, bi-sinuate, and symmetrical. 



Length 9J— 11^- mm. ; width 6J— 7J mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe) ; Mozambique 

 (Eikatla). 



In my example from Eikatla, the punctures on the clypeus are 

 much less rugose ; and the seriate white hairs on the elytra are not 

 partly rubbed off, this is probably due to the example having been 

 preserved in spirits of wine. 



Autoseeica (Lepiserica) proteana, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 19. 



Eeddish-brown, faintly opaline on the upper side, more so on the 

 under side, and with the head and prothorax slightly darker, or 

 gradually turning to dark chestnut on the upper part; antennae 

 reddish in the female, with the club longer than the pedicel in 

 the male, and flavescent ; clypeus bi-sinuate in front, owing to the 

 median part being slightly, yet plainly aculeate, the anterior margin 

 is strongly reflexed, the surface roughly punctate, and the head 

 faintly punctured ; the body is somewhat elongated, nearly parallel ; 

 the punctures on the prothorax very fine, each with a most minute 

 hair ; elytra plainly costulate, each puncture bearing as minute a 

 hair as on the prothorax, and each alternate costule having a series 

 of small, equi-distant, sub-appressed whitish bristles ; hind femora 

 only slightly sinuate in the inferior margin and as broad at the base 

 as it is at the apex ; the genital armature of the male is very 

 ■complicated. 



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



Hob. Natal (Durban), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Autoserica (Lepiserica) australis, n. spec, 

 Plate XLVL, fig. 21. 



This species is hardly distinguishable from L. proteana in shape, 

 sculpture, and colouring, but the anterior margin of the clypeus is 



