328 Annals of the South African Museum. 



MESITOMORPHUS, n. gen. 



Corpus cylindricum ; caput deflexum, rostro verticale, piano, capite 

 dimidio longiore, antennae ante medium insertae, scrobis profundis 

 oculorum apicem attingentibus, scapo longitudine tota nonnihil 

 brevior oculorum apicem nonnihil remoto, ad apicem sub-flagellato, 

 funiculo 7-articulato, primo valde incrassato, cupuliformi, reliquis 

 transversis gradatim modice incrassatis, coarctatis, clava valde 

 elongata, ovato acuminata funiculo dimidio longiore, baud dis- 

 tincte annulata; oculi permagni, convex!, ad latera capitis siti, 

 confertim reticulati ; protborax latitudine duplo longior, fere cylin- 

 dricus, antice postice nonnibil angustior ibidem baud sinuatus, in 

 medium disci longitudinaliter carinatus ; scutellum subobtuse 

 triangulum ; elytra prothoracis latitudine, cylindrica, apice abrupte 

 declivia pygidii basim tantum modo tegentia, hoc verticali, late 

 detecto ; abdomen fere cylindricum, quinque articulatum, segment© 

 primo secundoque in medio connatis sutura baud divisis at ad latera 

 distincte annulatis, reliquis tribus simul sumtis nonnihil brevioribus ; 

 coxae late remotae, globosae ; pedes baud elongati, femoribus valde 

 incrassatis, extrorsum convexis, subtus dente valido armatis, tibiis 

 leviter incurvatis, apice modice dilatatis, intermediis extrorsum late 

 dentatis, apice mucronatis. 



This singular genus has more the appearance of a Scolytid than 

 of a Curculionid, and its habits are more those of the former, 



Mesitomorphus vestitus, n. sp. 

 Plate v., figs. 19-20. 



Nigro fuscus, pube griseo flavescente densa indutus, antennae 

 pedesque sub-rufescentes ; caput rostrumque creberrime punctulata, 

 a vertice apice rostri pube flavescente obsita, fronte profunde 

 impressa ; protborax crebre profundeque punctatus, in medio 

 carinulatus, dense pubescens, maculis duabus denudatis utrinque 

 notatus ; elytra profunde striato punctata, prothorace contigua, 

 hoc dimidio longiora, baud latiora, cylindrica, apice abrupte 

 dehiscentia, fasciis tribus communibus e pilis longis appressis 

 flavescentibus formatis, prima suturali, secunda fere media valde 

 bisinuata tertiaque apicali ornata; pygidiura latum, perpendiculare, 

 in medio manifeste impressum, crebre punctatum, dense villosum ; 

 corpus subtus pedesque dense viilosa. 



Long. 4 mm. ; lat. li mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Seymour), under bark, or in wood. 



