1P16.: 269 



and pix>thorax densely, finely, the elytra very coarsely and diffxisedly, punctate. 

 Head convex, triangular, dilated behind the eyes and unimpressed between 

 them, slightly rounded at the base, the frontal suture distinct, the eyes small, 

 distant, very deeply cmarginate ; apical joint of maxillary paJpi stout, securi- 

 form ; antennae very slender, rather short, joints 2 and 3 sub-equal in length, 

 the others following moderately long and filiform. Prothorax convex, trans- 

 verse, truncate at the base, the sides rounded anteriorly and parallel behind, 

 the two basal foveae small, sharply defined. Scutellnm small. Elytra moder- 

 ately long, widened to the middle and rapidly, arcuately narrowed thence to 

 the apex, the latter somewhat acuminate, the interspaces between the irregularly 

 distributed coarse piincttires obsoletely punctulate, the humeri obtuse. Legs 

 very slender, the penultimate tarsal joint simple. Length 2|, breadth 1 mm. 



Hob.: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope {ex coll. F. Batett). 



One specimen, provisionally included under Scraptia. It agrees 

 very nearly with the description of S. jmnctata Pic from the same 

 locality ; but as the author describes the puncturing of the head and 

 prothorax as strong and pustuliform, and the head as depressed 

 between the antennae, and says nothing about the absence of wings 

 and the small eyes, his species must be different from the insect before 

 me. Trotoinma breritJiom.r Pic, also from the Cape, must have a more 

 strongly and less densely punctured prothorax, shorter, oval elytra, etc. 



An additional representative of this genus trom Australia has 

 been detected in Commander "Walker's collection since the key to the 

 species described in this paper was published, anted, pp. 234, 235 

 (October, 1916). S. hirmta should follow No. 31 in the arrangement 

 there adopted. 



38. — Scraj)tia hir^uta, n. sp. 



(J . Elongate-oval, somewhat convex, shining, thickly clothed with long, 

 coarse, det-iuubeut, fulvous hairs : tostyeeous, the eyes black, the sides of the 

 elytra slig"\<^ly infnscate ; the entire upper surface closely, coarsely punctate, 

 the pvuict nation of the prothorax sparser than thiit of the elytra. Head broad, 

 ti-aiisverse, narrowly extended on each side behind the eyes, the latter very 

 large, separated by about half theii- own width as seen from above ; apical joint 

 of maxillar}- palpi moderately large, seciu'iform ; antennae eompaiatively short, 

 joint '3 nearly as long as 5, -4-10 rather stouter, gi-adually becoming a little 

 shorter and moi-e slender, 11 oblong-ovate. Prothorax ample, very short, nearly 

 lis broad as the elytra, convex on the disc anteriorly, the two basal foveae small, 

 deep, connected by the marginal groove, the hind angles obtuse. Elyti-a model - 

 ately long, slightly rounded at the sides, rounded at the apex, transversely 

 depi-essed below the base. Legs comparatively short (the intei mediate and 



