new species of Brachycerus. 13 



a Hue of setiferous tubercles nearly to the apex, a shorter ridge 

 outside, and then a few tubercles more towards the outer margin, 

 the intervals with the same kind of squamosity as on the pro- 

 thorax ; abdominal segments, except the first, dark brown, the 

 sterna and legs densely covered with ivory dike scales ; tarsi slender, 

 but the last joint distinctly stouter. 



Brachycerus phlyctcenoides. (PL I., fig. 10). 



B, oblongo-ovatus, niger, supra granulis nitidis confertim tectus ; 

 rostrum gibbosum, postice bilobum, antice supra planatum et rude 

 punctatum; prothorax transversus, apicem versus canaliculatus, 

 utrinque leviter tuberculato-angulatus ; elytra ovata, irregulariter 

 granulata. Long. 13 lin. 



Hob. Guinea. 



A large black scaleless species, with numerous glossy granules 

 above, many of them — especially on the prothorax — with a small 

 central puncture. Rostrum moderately long, gibbous and roughly 

 punctured in front, bilobed at the base, and separated from the 

 head by a well-marked curved groove ; prothorax not much broader 

 than long, the apex slightly produced and rounded, the middle 

 with a groove well marked anteriorly, granules very irregular on 

 the disc, smaller at the sides, except one more prominent and 

 tuberculiform ; elytra ovate, granules somewhat fiattish, irregular, 

 the intervals punctate ; legs punctured, many of the punctures 

 with a small granule ; tibiae slightly bisiuuate ; posterior tarsi with 

 the terminal joint as loug as the rest together. 



Brachycerus albieoUis. (PL II., fig. 1). 

 B. oblongus, fusco-bi'unneus, squamosus, albo-signatus ; pro- 

 thorax latus, lateraliter tuberculatus, antice albo-squamosus et fere 

 impunctatus ; elytra ovata, prothorace paulo latiora, tuberculata ; 

 tarsi modice elongati. Long. 4i lin. 



Hab. Natal ?. 



A small brownish species having the anterior half of the prothorax 

 and head covered with white scales, as well as a large triangular 

 sj)ot on the elytra. Rostrum moderately long, roughly punctured, 

 the base with two oblong oblique contiguous lobes marking it off 

 from the head; prothorax broad, convex, each side with a small 

 obtuse tubercle, the apex with a quadrate impression, anterior half, 

 or white portion, nearly impunctate, the posterior half coarsely 

 pitted, the intervals more or less raised into tubercles, each mostly 

 with a glossy black fiattish top ; scutellum distinct, white ; elytra 



