330 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops, 



declivity, and its two extremities bifid ; legs dotted with slender 

 black seta? ; tarsi slender ; suture between the two basal segments 

 of the abdomen marked by a row of larger punctures. 



The stripes or patches on the elytra of this and 

 neighbouring species are made up of short erect closely- 

 set hairs— a modification of scales. 



Byrsops vittigera. (PL XI., fig. 4). 

 B. oblongo-ovata, squamis minutis griseo-albis tecta ; rostro 

 angusto, integro, antice sex-foveato ; elytris lineis vittis duabus 

 abbreviatis umbrino-notatis, postice tuberculatis ; tarsis elongatis. 

 Long. 4 lin. 



Hah. Cape. 



Head in front broadly convex, superciliary ridges nearly obso- 

 lete; rostrum with a double row of six fovea? on the basal half; 

 prothorax rather longer than broad, slightly rounded at the sides, 

 irregularly and unequally pitted, anteriorly three deeper and 

 larger pits, and at the base an oblong depression ; elytra broader 

 than the prothorax, each with three raised lines on the disc, and a 

 fourth on the deflected side, the inner and third short, the inter- 

 mediate towards the declivity developing into three narrow and 

 gradually larger tubercles, on the declivity a smaUer and more 

 conical tubercle, between the lines and at the deflected sides rows 

 of punctures extending to the apex, on each side of the suture an 

 umber-coloured stripe, not extending to the declivity, composed of 

 erect hairs, and followed by two tubercles ; legs dotted with black 

 setas ; tarsi long and linear. 



Possibly an ally of B. retusus, described by Boheman 

 from a specimen without head and legs. The tarsi are 

 unusually long and slender. 



Byrsops vicaria. 

 B. oblonga, subtilissime granulata, squamis minutis griseis 

 tecta ; rostro crassiusculo, integro, antice obsolete foveato ; elytris 

 vitta communi basali fusca notatis, postice tuberculatis ; tarsis 

 elongatis. Long. 3 lin. 



Hal). Cape. 



Allied to the last but narrower, with only one stripe on the disc 

 of the elytra, and the upper surface dotted with very small glossy 

 black granules ; head and rostrum as in the last, but the latter 

 shorter and stouter ; prothorax broader and very slightly pitted, 

 except the three anterior pits, which are just as strongly marked ; 



