850 COLEOPTERA 



The sculpture of the beak and thorax distinguishes this species 

 from Nos. 761 and 1221 as well as P. dijf evens. 



Length (rost. inch), if lines; breadth, f. 



I have one individual only, which was found in the same locality 

 as P. dijfcrciis. 



1512. P. capitalis, n-s. Convex, clothed with small elongate 

 yellowish scales, piceous ; legs and antennae rufescent. 



Rostrum longer than thorax, arched, wider in front than behind, 

 finely carinate, its basal half densely squamose but not tuberculate. 

 Antenna moderate. Protliorax quite as broad as long, widest in the 

 middle, its frontal portion narrow and dejDressed and moderately 

 punctated ; the disc coarsely punctured and uneven. Elytra sub- 

 cordate ; scutellar region concave, striate-punctate ; hind-slope 

 punctate-striate ; the discoidal punctures are large and separated 

 from each other by a rather narrow interval having a minute granule 

 on each ; near the sides the granular elevations are more con- 

 sj)icuous ; the scales form irregular elevations. Legs stout and scaly. 



A peculiar form. When the insect has been set out on card- 

 board, the head, as seen from above, appears very small and no 

 broader than the snout, with a deep constriction behind the eyes. 

 Tlie scrobes are quite foveiform, but between them and the eyes 

 there is a shallow squamose groove ; the presence of the latter may 

 be detected in other species also, though less evident maless the 

 beak be denuded. The thorax is uncommonly short, and the elytra 

 rather broad, so that the general contour is dissimilar to that of any 

 described species. Notwithstanding these discrepancies, I have little 

 hesitation in referring it to Phrynixus, though it should, I think, be 

 placed last on the list. 



Length (rost. inch), 2 lines ; breadth, |-. 



One of Mr. S. W. Fulton's discoveries near Outram. One only. 



Group— HIPPORHINID^. 



Phseophanns (Part ill., p. 792). 



^5^3- P. graniger, "-s. Sub-ovate, convex, opaque, black, 

 clothed with small, elongate, sub-depressed fulvous scales. 



nostrum as long as thorax, almost longitudinally depressed; 

 apex nude, punctate. Antennoi sparsely pilose, scape gradually 

 thickened and not reaching the eye ; funicle shining-piceous, two 

 basal joints elongate and about equal, 3-7 oviform ; club distinct, 

 densely pubescent, quadri-articulate. Protliorax as long as broad, 

 widest before the middle, base truncate, with very feeble ocular 

 lobes ; its surface rather uneven, not at all coarsely punctured, and 

 bera-ing a few inconspicuous granules behind. Scutellum distinct, 

 covered with grey scales. Elytra oviform, convex, broader and 

 three times longer than thorax, not much broader than the thorax 

 at the base, sides and apex neai'ly vertical ; each with two sutural 

 rows of oblong depressions becoming punctiform behind, two irre- 

 gular costie, the sutural almost tuberculate behind, and a lateral 

 row of eight or nine nodiform elevations ; there are also many 



