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and therefore not so conspicuous ; the genital armature of the male 

 is very different, the left lobe is very much longer than the right, 

 strongly sinuate outwardly, broadly laminate, strongly arcuate 

 inwardly near the apex the vertical edge of which is incised ; the 

 right lobe is short, narrow, and directed inwards. 



Length 6-9 mm. ; width 4—5^- mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba) ; Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe r 

 Salisbury). 



AUTOSEEICA ANNECTENS, Dr. Spec. 



Fuscous or dark chestnut-brown, with a faint greenish-bronze 

 tinge on the frontal part of the head, and on the discoidal part of the 

 prothorax, it has no sericeous sheen, the under side is lighter 

 chestnut-brown than the upper, and so are the legs, the antennal 

 club is flavous in the male, and not longer than the pedicel, the 

 sixth joint is almost rudimentary, but still visible under a high 

 power, in the female the club is reddish-brown, and the joints of 

 the pedicel normal; this species looks at first sight like a very small 

 example of A. lucidula, but the frontal part is broadly and very 

 deeply punctate all over, and has a median slightly raised longi- 

 tudinal line ; the prothorax is similarly shaped, and there is a 

 minute hair in each puncture ; the scutellum and elytra are also 

 alike, and each puncture bears a minute greyish hair, the dark 

 tessellation is also not very plain in some examples and more so in 

 others, but the first interval is broader than the others, plainly 

 convex and tectiform, and so are the other dorsal ones. . 



This species resembles so much the female of A. concor clans that, 

 in spite of the subdued tessellation of the elytra and the presence of 

 the minute scale like hairs on. the upper side, I took it to be the 

 same, owing to the shape of the raised intervals of the elytra, until 

 I got the male. The tessellation is completely obliterated in some 

 examples. 



Length 6J-- 6^ mm. ; width 4-4J- mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Salisbury). 



Autoseeica (Lepiseeica) faetula, ii. spec. 



Fuscous with a metallic tinge, and occasionally with the elytra 

 chestnut-brown and the costules darker, not tessellate ; the shape 

 and sculpture of the head is the same as in the two preceding 

 species, but the clypeus is very deeply punctured ; the prothorax 

 is covered with moderately closely set punctures bearing each a 

 minute flavescent hair ; the punctures on the scutellum are deep 



