128 



curculioxidj:. 



Head closely and coarsely punctate, somewhat wrinkled ; the 

 eves large, broadly ovate, and not very convex, liostrum longer 

 than the head, slightly dilated at the apex, coarsely punctate and 

 wrinkled, and with a deep central furrow which ascends the fore- 

 head. Antenna' piceous, the scape curving forwards when erect, 

 the second pint of the funicle very slightly longer than the first 

 (remainder of antennae missing). Prothorax broader than long, 

 broadest at the base and roundly narrowed to the apex, the base 

 shallowly bisinuate and narrowly marginate, the posterior angles 

 rounded and not projecting laterally, the upper surface with 

 shallow confluent punctation, mostly hidden by the scaling, and 

 with a faint central furrow near the base only. Elytra broad, 



Fig. 43. — Poh/cIcU 2}cii'cits, Boh. 



with the shoulders roundly rectangular, the sides subparallel to 

 beyond the middle, the apices forming a short sharp niucro, the 

 punctures in the stride large and deep at the base and diminishing 

 behind, the intervals finely and closely punctate beneath the 

 scaling and without appreciable setse, the scales small and circular. 

 Ler/s piceous, with dense whitish scaling. 

 Lenatli 11-12 mm. ; breadth, o-5| mm. 



Be]S'GAL. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



In addition to the type I have seen only a single specimen, 

 in the Paris Museum ; both of these must have been taken some 

 70 years ago. As the rest of the genus is purely Ethiopian it is 

 possible that there may be an error in the locality of these two 

 examples, which came from the same source. 



Genus ASTYCUS. 



Astyciis, Scliunberr, Disp. Meth. 1826, p. 129; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. 

 v"i, 1868, p. 94. 



Lepropus, Schunherr, op.cit. p. 154.— Type, Cwculio lateralis, F. 



Bmchyaspistes, Schunherr, Geu. Cure, vi, pt. 1, 1840, p. 249; Lacor- 

 daire, op. cit. p. 95. — Type, B. femoralis, Fahr. (n. syn.). 



