and some allied ijenera. BBB 



To the naked eye a pale fawn-coloured species with 

 scarcely any punctuation, and with only very small 

 marginal tubercles. 



Daulaxius. 

 Caput depression; rostrum subangustum ; scrobes breves, 

 obliques. Antennas breviusculse ; funiculus septem articulatus, 

 articulo ultimo ad clavam arete appHcato. Elytra convexa, 

 ampliata. Biina pectoralis profunda. Pedes validi ; tarsi breves 

 incrassati. 



The last joint of the funicle intimately with, and 

 indeed forming part of, the club, and the thick tarsi, 

 are the principal technical characters of this new genus, 

 differentiating it from Byrsops. The facies is that of 

 a Brachycerus. It may be noticed that the light-coloured 

 scales are linear or lanceolate, with a deep median 

 groove, those on the tibiae standing well out from the 

 surface ; the darker scales are smaller, many of them 

 having a small central puncture. 



Daulaxius stolatus. (PL XL, fig. 11). 



D. validus, squamis fulvo-griseis dense tectns, disco protboracis 

 elytrisque basi et fere in medio fascia lata abbreviata nigro-fusca 

 notatis. Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay. 



Broadly ovate, closely covered with fulvous-grey scales, the disc 

 of the prothorax and a large J_-sbaped patch on the base of tbe 

 elytra dark brown ; head irregularly excavated between tbe two 

 well-developed superciliary ridges; basal half of tbe rostrum 

 roughly punctured; basal joint of the funicle pyriform ; club 

 oblong, pointed; prothorax scarcely broader than long, narrower 

 at the apex, the sides rounded, disc with rough irregular tubercles, 

 but having a marked interrupted groove in the middle ; elytra 

 at the sides more than twice as broad as the prothorax at the base, 

 not suddenly declivous posteriorly, each elytron with three rows of 

 tubercles, tbe two inner not continued beyond the declivity, the 

 outer row bounding the disc of about ten contiguous tubercles, at 

 the shoulder a short row of three, all closely covered with scales ; 

 three intermediate segments of the abdomen of equal length ; legs 

 closely covered with greyish scales, and dotted with black setae- 

 three basal joints of the tarsi very short and broad. 



