332 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Byrsops, 



but not extending to the apex ; antennae black ; scape thick ; 

 funicle linear, slender, the two basal joints elongate ; club large, 

 ovate ; prothorax oblong, grooved in the middle, irregularly punc- 

 tured, and three oblong depressions anteriorly ; elytra slightly 

 broader in the middle than at the base, unequally and nearly 

 obsoletely seriate-punctate, disc on each side with a row of small 

 tubercles terminating at the declivity in a large tubercle, and a 

 smaller one nearer the suture, sides of the disc obliquely inflexed 

 and dark brown, on the suture, but extending to the declivity, 

 a dark chocolate-brown lanceolate stripe composed of densely 

 packed erect short hairs, the declivity itself clouded with brown, 

 with one larger and four smaller tubercles on each side of the 

 suture ; body beneath and legs pale ferruginous, the latter elongate 

 and dotted with numerous long black setae. 



I have a specimen — agreeing with another in the 

 British Museum — labelled B. amplexicollis, Wiedm., to 

 which this species is closely allied, but it does not agree 

 with Boheman's description (Scbonherr, vi., 2, p. 390) ; 

 indeed, if the character of the tarsi is correct (" tarsis 

 subtus dense nigro-pilosis ") it can hardly belong to the 

 genus. 



Byrsops farinosa. 

 B. oblonga, silacea, squamis minutis albidis tecta ; rostro 

 longiusculo, gibboso, obsolete punctato ; prothorace convexo, vix 

 punctato ; elytris supra planatis, ad latera modice rotundatis, 

 lineatim leviter punctatis, postice tuberculis parvis marginatis. 

 Long. 5i lin. 



Rub. South Africa. 



Oblong, pale brownish yellow clothed with minute whitish 

 scales ; head broadly concave between the two elevated super- 

 ciliary ridges ; rostrum rather longer, narrowed at the base, 

 gibbous, obsoletely punctured ; antennae small, the funicle gradually 

 stouter to the club ; prothorax convex, rather longer than broad, 

 constricted anteriorly, scarcely punctured; elytra moderately 

 rounded at the sides, abruptly declivous behind, the disc flat, with 

 very small punctures in lines, the deflexed sides with broad rather 

 shallow grooves, and covered with brownish yellow scales, the disc 

 at the declivity margined with above a dozen small round tubercles, 

 and about the same number, but much smaller, at the side ; body 

 beneath rusty-brown, legs mottled with the same colour, and 

 dotted with small black seta? ; tarsi with the claw-joint cylindrical 

 and longer than the others together. 



