new species of Brachycerus. 17 



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

 inner row with three, large and flat, having on the top a few 

 setiferons punctures and a conical one on the declivity, the outer 

 row composed of one round and three conical apiculate tubercles, 

 rest of the elytra with numerous small unequal tubercles, many 

 with a glossy black tip ; legs rather long ; claw -joint of the posterit r 

 tarsi as long as the rest together. 



Brachycerus mcerens. (PL II., fig. 8). 



B. ovatus, squamosus, fuscus, albo-notatus, supra nitide tubercu- 

 latus ; rostrum breviusculum, parte apicali excepta, albido-squa* 

 mosum, punctis dispersis, basi elevatum disjunctim bilobatum, 

 a capite profunde separatum ; prothorax paulo transversus, 

 lateraliter acute spinosus ; elytra subglobosa. Long. 6 lin. 



Hab. Zambesi. 



A dark brown species with patches of white scales, the upper 

 parts dotted with unequal glossy black-tipped tubercles. Rostrum 

 comparatively short, conspicuously punctured, except toward the 

 apex, the intervals with pale yellowish scales, the base raised and 

 bilobed, marked off from the head by a deep groove ; prothorax, 

 excluding the spines, about as long as broad, a deep oblong 

 impression anteriorly, disc coarsely tuberculate, a few of the 

 tubercles emarginate behind, a black seta issuing from the emargi- 

 nation, base of the lateral spine covered with white scales ; a black 

 scutellum ; elytra subglobose, each with about six rows of tubercles, 

 but the intervals so strongly and unequally pitted that at first they 

 appear to be irregularly distributed, the tubercles on the inner row 

 have a more granular character, the fourth and fifth rows are the 

 most conspicuous, all the tubercles have a glossy black tip, and 

 some have a seta as well, of the white patches the largest is basal, 

 behind it are two smaller ones, at the side another, and the fifth is 

 towards the apex ; sides of the abdomen with four pale spots ; legs 

 covered with ashy scales. 



TKANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1887. — I'ART I. 'APRIL.) C 



