14 Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of some 



ovate, rather broader than the prothorax, with tubercles principally 

 in three rows, the inner row confined to the declivity, tubercles not 

 prominent, each with a glossy black top, the intervals lightly 

 pitted ; legs and body beneath closely scaled, the former with 

 decumbent black setae ; tarsi of moderate length. 



Brachycerus electilis. (PI. II., fig. 2). 



B. oblongus, squamosus, rufo-brunneus, albo-signatus ; pro- 

 thorax latus, lateraliter rotundatus, disco cruciatim impressus ; 

 elytra prothorace vix latiora, brevia, supra foveatim corrugata et 

 tuberculata ; tarsi breves. Long. 4.V lin. 



JIab. Algoa Bay. 



A small rufous-brown species with white patches, minute scales 

 in parts and curiously wrinkled elytra. Rostrum rather short, 

 roughly punctured in front, towards the base two erect cylindrical 

 tubercles, a groove marking it off from the head ; antennas short, 

 stout ; prothorax very convex, broad, rounded at the sides, on the 

 disc a cross-shaped impression, and behind the transverse arm of 

 the cross a double row of oblong raised points marked with a 

 linear impression, and before it a band composed of whitish scales ; 

 scutellum distinct, white ; elytra short and not much broader than 

 the prothorax, covered with tubercles more or less marked, with 

 narrow raised transverse and oblique lines, enclosing deep and 

 irregular pits between them, the sides with strongly marked 

 quadrate punctures, suture at the base and a transverse patch on 

 the declivity composed of closed-set minute white scales. 



Brachycerus obtusus. (PL II., fig. 3). 



B. breviter ovatus, squamositate fusco-grisea tectus ; rostrum 

 breve, in medio unituberculatum, basi lobis duobusobliquis obsitum ; 

 prothorax lateraliter obtuse angulatus ; elytra ovata, tuberculata, 

 apice quasi truncata. Long. 6 lin. 



Hah. Natal. 



A shorl dark grey species, the elytra broadly rounded at the 

 apex, but when viewed from above. apparently truncate. Rostrum 

 short, stout, the middle in front with a fiattish tubercle and a 

 raised line behind it, the base with two oblique lobes ; prothorax 

 transverse, closely punctured, the sides obtusely angulate, a dee]) 

 don at the apex, which is truncate; elytra ovate, the apex 

 broadlj rounded, each with three rows of stout conical tubercles, 

 the sutural row confined to behind the middle, tubercles tipped 

 with a short seta, the apical tubercle et' the sic. ml n>w much 



