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and forming seriate lines, the hairs, however, are not sufficiently 

 dense, or short enough to form a pile concealing the teguments. 



Allied to A. inconditus, Per. (Catal. i., p. 575), but easily dis- 

 tinguished by its livery. 



Length 10-J mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree). 



Adoretus beiranus, n. sp., 

 PI. XL VIII., figs. 37, 38, 39. 



Totally piceous, or with the thorax and elytra testaceous red, 

 occasionally the whole upper side is dark chestnut ; antennae fuscous 

 with the exception of the two basal joints, which are rufescent; 

 antennal club of the $ very long ; upper side and legs covered with 

 very short, appressed, equi- distant white stiff hairs separated from 

 each other by a distance the width of which is equal to their own 

 length; clypeus arcuate rounded, punctate, the prothorax on the 

 clypeus more closely set than those in the frontal part which are 

 simple, somewhat deep, and divided from each other by a span equal 

 to their own diameter, each puncture is setigerous ; prothorax nearly 

 twice as broad as long, slightly ampliate rounded laterally in the 

 anterior part ; scutellum villose ; elytra covered with closely-set 

 series of deep punctures also set close to each other ; in well- 

 preserved examples there is on each side one sutural, four dorsal, 

 and one marginal longitudinal rows of far remote, erect, short 

 white bristles ; underside sparingly villose ; inner claw of anterior 

 tibia? of $ very slightly cleft, that of the $ distinctly so. 



The nearest South African ally of this species is A. pliimbicollis, 

 Arrow, in which, however, the clypeus is much more arcuate, the 

 pubescence on the upper side longer, as are also the seriate white 

 bristles on the elytra. The shape of the genital armature of the two 

 species is very different. 



Length 6-J-8 mm. ; width 3J-3^- mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira). 



Gen. ANOMALA, Sam., Cat. i., p. 586. 



Anomala pertinax, n. sp. 



PI. XVLIIL, figs. 21, 22, 23. 



Brick yellowish red, shiny, legs redder ; antennas testaceous, 

 clypeus and frontal part redder than the prothorax and elytra, both 

 very closely aciculate ; the clypeus is nearly straight laterally and 

 only very slightly arcuate in front ; prothorax very finely aciculate 



