16 Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of some 



granules over all ; abdomeu coarsely punctured ; legs covered with 

 pale grey scales and with numerous short sette ; tarsi moderately 

 elongate. 



Brachycerus gryphus. (PI. II., fig. 6). 



B. oblongo-ovatus, squamositate ferruginea tectus ; rostrum 

 rnodice elongatum, antice punctatmrt ; pro thorax transversus, 

 lateraliter acute spinosus, antice excavatus ; elytra amplia, bi- 

 seriatim tuberculata, tuberculis ajnce setigeris, a basi ad declivi- 

 tatem gradatim majoribus, serie exteriori tuberculis validis spina 

 nigra acuta terminatis, interstitiis rude foveatis. Long. 10 lin. 



Hab. Usambara. 



An East African species ; the sculpture approximates it to 

 B. draco. Rostrum moderately long, the slightly raised margins 

 coalescing towards the base, which is bilobed, and scarcely marked 

 off from the head ; prothorax slightly transverse, sides with a short 

 acute conical spine, the apex with an oblong impression, disc with 

 few tubercles, the largest above and a little behind the lateral spine ; 

 elytra broadly rounded at the sides, each with two rows of tubercles, 

 those on the inner row consisting of five small and two much 

 larger and more conical placed on the declivity, each tipped with a 

 glossy black spot, the outer row consisting principally of three large 

 conical tubercles, each terminating in a well- developed acute black 

 spine, the intervals irregularly pitted, towards the outer margin 

 several small glossy -black granules ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with 

 black ; claw-joint of the tarsi as long or longer than the rest 

 together. 



Brachycerus stramosus. (PI. II., fig. 7). 



B. ovatus, fuscus, squamis minutis pallidioribus tectus ; rostrum 

 elongatum, basin versus marginibus exterioribus elevatis ; pro- 

 thorax vix transversus, lateraliter angulatus, apice callositate 

 magna munitus ; elytra ampliata, biseriatim tuberculata, seriebus 

 internis inagnis planatis. Long. 10 lin. 



Hab. Senegal. 



A stout dull brown species covered with minute paler scales, and 

 having a prominent callosity on the apex of the prothorax. 

 Rostrum elongate, irregularly impressed in front, (he posterior 

 half with a raised margin on either side, and at the base two 

 inconspicuous tubercles marking it off from the bead; protb rax 

 nearly as broad a- Long, angulate al the -ides, the apex with a large 

 rounded elevated callosity, and on each side above the angle a 

 cluster of three or four unequal tubercles; elytra rather short, 



