Mr. Pascoe's dficripft'oni of Curculionida?. 595 



rostro supra morlice excavato; scapo crasisiuscnlo, apice hand 

 crassiore. Loug. 2^ lin. 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay. 



Closely covered with fawn-coloured scales, varied with dark 

 spots, Avhich on the elytra appear as two ill-defined hands; 

 rostrum with a shallow groove above ; antenna? reaching to the 

 apex of the elytra, the scape stout, not enlarged at the apex, 

 attaining to the base of the elytra; prothorax short, nearly twice 

 as broad as long, with few punctures, and a slightly raised line 

 in the middle; elytra a little longer than broad, very convex, 

 striate, the stria? limited to very narrow lines which do not 

 appear to be punctured, the interstices rather broad and convex; 

 legs with numerous setiferous scales; two basal joints of the 

 tarsi rather narrow. 



Diethieus tenuicornis. 



D. dense cervino-squamulosus, fusco raaculatim subvariegatus ; 

 rostro supra magis sulcato, scapo tenuato, apice sat subito incras • 

 sato. Long. 2:^ lin. 



Hab. ITatal. 



Closely resembling the preceding, but with more indefinite 

 and paler spots, the rostrum narrower, the ridge on each side 

 more marked, and inclosing a longer and deeper groove between 

 them ; the scape of the antenna? very much more attenuated 

 with the ordinary dilatation of the apex confined to the extreme 

 point, and the prothorax more nearly equal in length and 

 breadth. 



PIOTYPUS. 



Caput et rostrum lata, hoc breve, a froute sej)aratum, margine 

 externa angulatura; scrohes laterales, arcuata?. Ocitli prominuli. 

 Anienncn breviuscula?; scapus curvatus, apicem versus dilatatus, 

 extus dente parvulo instructus; funiculus tenuatus; clava ovata 

 acuminata. Prothorax, In-evis, baud lobatus. Srutellum nul- 

 lum. Elytra ampla, exhumerata. Pedes breves, tarsi lati, 

 unguet basi connati. Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis 

 longitudiue jequalibus. 



This genus l)elongs to Lacordaire's " groupe iii OoKomides " of 

 the Ot!orlu/nchina\ From the many genera of that group it is 



