326 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Tribe COSSONINI. 



PENTAETHEOPHASIS, n. gen. 



Corpus elongatum, supra depressum, rostrum capite duplo 

 longius, vix arcuatum, parallelum ; oculis nullis ; antennae ante 

 medium rostri insertae, crassae, funiculo 5-articulato, scapo clavato, 

 articulis quatuor sequentibus longitudine fere sequali, articulo 2°-3° 

 nonnihil longiore, vix latiore, 4°-6° transversis ; elava lata, ovali, 

 integra, apice spongiosa ; prothorax antrorsum vix angustatus, fere 

 parallelus, basi truncatus ; scutellum minutissimum ; elytra sub- 

 parallela, connata, basi prothorace nonnihil latiora, pone humeros 

 perparum ampliata, deplanata, postice modice attenuata eonvexius- 

 culaque pygidium obtegentia ; pedes robusti, femoribus muticis, 

 clavatis, tibiis in uncum magnum inflexum productis, nonnihil 

 arcuatis, posticis compressis, valde dilatatis, tarsis brevibus, crassis, 

 articulo tertio modice lobato ; abdomen e segmentis 5 composituni, 

 segmentis primo secundoque arete connatis reliquis simul sumtis 

 longioribus. 



I am proposing this genus for a small, blind Tanyrhynchidous 

 weevil found by my friend Mons. A. Eaffray in the ground, at the 

 root of a dead tree. 



Pentarthrophasis raffrayi, n. sp. 

 Plate v., figs. 6, 7, 8. 



Testaceus, nitidus, rostro profunde punctato pilisque crassis 

 squamulosis obsito ; capite glabro, conferte punctulato ; antennarum 

 articulis pilis rigidis brevibus griseis obtectis, scapo pilis squami- 

 formibus longis crassisque ad apicem intus barbato ; oculis nullis ; 

 prothorace latitudine duplo longiore, supra modice depianato 

 parallelo sed ad apicem tenuissime angustato, basi truncato, pro- 

 funde conferteque foveolatopunctato, glabro ; elytris connatis, 

 elongatis, ad apicem subacuminatis, in dorso modice depressis at 

 postice convexiusculis, punctis profundis setam brevem albidam 

 ferentibus seriatis obtectis ; subtus profunde punctato, sparsim 

 squamoso piloso, femorum posticorum marginibus duabus tibiisque 

 posticis dense squamosis, his extus sparsim rigide setosis. 



Long. 2 mm. ; lat. h mm. 



Hab. Cape Town. 



