BY ARTHUR M. LEA. 611 



appearance of an oblique dark fascia from about the middle to 

 the sides a little before apex. 



GONIPTERUS CITROPHAGUS, n.Sp. 



Piceous-black ; antennte obscure red ; elytra piceous at base, 

 dull red elsewhere. Head and rostrum densely clothed with long 

 pale straw-coloured scales; prothorax with a broad median vitta 

 of scales as on head, the sides more sparingly clothed: scutellum 

 densely squamosa; elytra with a most irregular obscure sutural 

 stripe of pale scales widening to apex and never exactly the same 

 (in ten specimens under examination), sides Avith slightly darker 

 and smaller scales, here and there traversed by a few scales as on 

 suture ; punctures filled with an ochreous dust ; under surface 

 densely clothed with shining white scales. 



Head apparently granulate, with an excavation commencing 

 between bases of eyes and continued on to rostrum; eyes lai^ge, 

 prominent, elliptic-ovate. Rostrum thick, longer than head, 

 granulate. Antennte short; scape short, thick, obtriangular; 1st 

 joint of funicle transverse, more than half the length of 2nd, 2nd 

 feebly widening to apex, lst-2nd as long as or longer than scape, 

 3rd not elongate, 4th 7th transverse.* Prothorax granulate, 

 sides very feebly bisinuate, base trisinuate. ScufeUum granulate, 

 elongate, slightly raised, shaped somewhat like an acorn. Mytra 

 granulate, about once and one-third the width of prothorax; apex 

 very feebly emarginate, not mucronate; striate-punctate, punctures 

 moderately large, oblong, distinct to apex; interstices wide, flat, 

 3rd raised and cristate at base, 5th less noticeably so; shoulders 

 oblique; posthumeral tubercle small, rather sharp. Coxal processes 

 of metasternnm rather more acute than is usual. Tibiae with a 

 few rather large teeth, four anterior feebly curved. Length 7|, 

 width 3| mm. 



Unh. — SAvan River. Taken from the bases of orange leaves, 

 many of which had been partially eaten. 



* Including the sets with which they are clothed. 



