12 Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of some 



Brachyeerus Faustii. (PI. I., fig. 8). 



B. oblougo-ovatus, plerunique squamositate obscure grisea 

 tectus ; rostrum breviusculum, antice paulo excavaturn, apice 

 bifoveatum, basi bilobatum, a capite distinctum ; protborax cum 

 elytris carinatis, bis apice dehiscentibus. Long. 12 lin. 



Hah. Natal. 



In facies somewbat like the next, but more allied to B. oblongus, 

 Fhrs. Rostrum rather short and narrow comparatively, slightly 

 concave in front, the apex with two conspicuous pits, the base 

 bilobed, the lobes clearly marking it off from the head ; protborax 

 transverse, angularly spined at the sides, three ridges on the disc, 

 the middle one smallest ; elytra broader than the protborax, each 

 with a slightly flexuous ridge on the basal half replaced by a line 

 of setiferous tubercles nearly to the apex, at the side a raised 

 nodulose line, and toward the margin three or four flatfish 

 tubercles, the sutural region nearly impunctate, intervals of the 

 ridges closely covered with a dull greyish squamosity, that between 

 the first and second with a finely raised line, each apex prolonged 

 and divergent ; body beneath and legs covered with dull greyish 

 scales ; inner angle of the posterior tibiae with an acute curved 

 spine ; tarsi rather elongate. 



Named after M. Johannes Faust, of Libau, Courland, 

 who has done so much for the insect-fauna of Russia 

 and Turkestan. 



Brachyeerus precursor. (PL I., fig. 9). 



B. oblongo-ovatus, niger ; rostrum cum capite continuatum ; 

 protborax costis duabus validis, elytra quatuor, instructi, interstiis 

 squamositate albida dense tectis. Long. 8 lin. 



Hah. Cape. 



This species is like the figure given by M. Peringuey of his 

 B. albotectus, but differs from his description in several important 

 particulars. Rostrum continuous with the head, moderately long 

 and comparatively narrow, flatfish in front, scarcely narrower at 

 the base and reticulately punctured ; protborax transverse, gradually 

 expanding into an acute angle at the sides, disc with two elevated 

 glossy black ridges, between which is a smaller ridge, but covered, 

 as is the rest of the protborax, with a whitish squamosity; no 

 ocular lobes ; scutellum small but distinct ; elytra nowhere scarcely 

 broader than the protborax, each with a ridge continuous with the 

 one on the prothorax, but only extending midway and replaced by 



