8 Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of some 



very far short of the number of species.* Schonherr's 

 divisions of the genus include the most dissimilar forms. 

 I have here arranged the species without reference to 

 their affinities. 



Although so numerous in species they appear to be 

 individually scarce. Collectors at the _ Cape seem to 

 have paid very little attention to their habits, but, 

 judging from the few species of the Mediterranean 

 region, the larva will probably be found feeding in the 

 bulbs of the Amdryllidecc and allies, which abound in 

 the Cape Colony, the perfect insects only emerging for 

 a short time to prepare for another generation. 



The measurements are taken from the apex of the 

 prothorax to the declivity of the elytra. Characters 

 common to the whole genus are mostly omitted. 



Brachycerus cinnaviomeus. (PI. I., fig. 1). 

 B. oblongo-ovatus, squaruosit ate cinnamomea, granulis tubercu 

 lisque adspersis. tectus ; rostrum mortice elongatuin, antice spatio 

 triangulari notatum ; prothorax utrinque acute spiuosus, apicem 

 versus fovea magna impressus; elytra ovata, singulo tuberculis 

 validis triseriatim obsitis, interstitiis nitide grantilatis. Long. 

 10 lin. 



Hab. Zanzibar. 



A comparatively large species, which may be approximated to 

 B. annulatus, Gerst. The upper parts are covered with a 

 cinnamon-brown squamosity, with a few lighter spots on the 

 elytra, and are marked by glossy granules and tubercles. Rostrum 

 moderately long, anteriorly bounded by two ridges forming a 

 triangular impression between them, the posterior part marking 

 off the rostrum from the head ; no ridge over the eyes ; prothorax 

 sharply spined at the sides, the disc with glossy granules irregu- 

 larly placed and varying in size and shape, towards the apex a 

 large and somewbat shallow pit; elytra ovate, each with three 

 rows of tubercles, the sutural and intermediate with depressed 

 tubercles, those near t lie suture much the smallest, the intermediate 

 gradually smaller on the declivity, the outer row is composed of 

 conical tubercles, except that the last two are spiniform, in the 

 intervals of the tubercles many small glossy black granules; legs 



■'■ : Bedel has separated B. porcellus as a genus under the name of 

 Herpes : Dr. Aurivillius has proposed Gyllenhallia for B. spectrum, 

 TJieates, Fahr., is closely allied to Bracliycerus. 



