1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 11 



ft 1 . Clypeus with the median part of the anterior margin not 



angular (gen., pi. xlvi., fig. 21) australis. 



A 1 . Elytra with the intervals costate, tectiform. 



Antennas of male longer than the head, the latter concolorous. . concordant. 



Antennae of male much longer than the head, the latter black. . distinguenda. 



AUTOSEEICA TESSELLATA, n. Spec. 



Plate XLVI., fig. 18. 



Light chestnut, slightly metallic, either lightly infuscate on the 

 head and the central part of the prothorax and with equi-distant 

 fuscous patches forming a tessellation on the plainly convex costae of 

 the elytra, or so much suffused with a fuscous tinge that the tessella- 

 tion is quite obliterated ; surface with a very short, squamiform hair 

 on each puncture ; antennae rufescent ; club slightly flavescent ; 

 clypeus slightly narrowed laterally towards the apex, which is 

 nearly straight, and the margins moderately refiexed, separated from 

 the head by an arcuate impressed line, deeply and somewhat 

 roughly punctate, head with very shallow punctures ; club of 

 antennae not much longer in the male than in the female ; 

 prothorax also with shallow punctures ; scutellum elongate, 

 sharpty triangular ; elytra gradually ampliated laterally towards the 

 posterior part, convex, but more so in the female than in the male, 

 plainly costate with the costae rounded, margin of epipleural fold 

 with a fringe of short hairs ; pygidium and abdomen with minute 

 scales, metasternum with a long, median, longitudinal impressed 

 line ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; in the male the two valves are 

 almost symmetrical and enclose an ovate open space. 



Length 7-J--9 mm. ; width 4J-5J- mm. 



Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe), Transvaal 

 (Lydenburg). 



Closely allied to L. ukamina, Brsk., but the naked spots on the 

 elytra occur on the alternate costae. Herr Brenske informs me that 

 the two species are not identical. 



Autoserica (Lepiserica) lucidula, Pering., 



Plate XLVI., fig. 20. 



Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 35. 



• Shape and colouring of L. mashona, the description of which suits 

 entirely the present species ; the tessellate denuded patches on the 

 elytra are, however, not so dark in the light-coloured specimens, 



