nvd some allied genera. 335 



closely embraced by the elytra, the three intermediate segments of 

 equal length ; legs dotted with long white setae ; last tarsal joint 

 nearly as long as the three preceding together. 



LlASOTUS. 

 Caput latum ; rostrum breve ; scrobes arcuatse. Antennas 

 breves ; funiculus articulo basali longiusculo, cseteris valde trans- 

 versis ; clava distincta. Prothorax ad latera rotundatus. Elytra 

 ovata. Tibiae apice intus spinosse ; tarsi breves, validi. Abdomen 

 segmentis duobus basalibus conjunctis. 



The only exponent of this genus has the facies of 

 certain Sparteceri, but the contiguity of the intermediate 

 coxre requires it, according to Lacordaire's arrangement, 

 to be placed among his " Byrsopsides vrais." The union 

 of the two basal segments of the abdomen is probably 

 not a reliable generic character, as it occurs in some 

 species of Byrsops. There appears to be a small 

 triangular scutellum hardly to be distinguished from the 

 elytra. 



Liasotus oris. (PL XL, fig. 10). 



L. oblongo-ovatus, squarnositate grisea omnino dense tectus, 

 supra foveis determinatis impressus ; elytris postice tuberculatis. 

 Long. 5 lin. 



Hab. Natal. 



Oblong ovate, everywhere closely covered with a pure grey 

 squamosity, except a dark spot on each elytron at the base ; head 

 very broad, and having two slight depressions between the eyes ; 

 rostrum as broad as long, a single tubercle at the base, and sparsely 

 punctured ; antennae with a short robust scape ; first joint of the 

 funicle rather longer than broad, the rest very transverse and of 

 equal breadth throughout ; club ovate, pointed, black ; prothorax 

 slightly transverse, narrowly bilobed at the apex, deeply pitted on 

 the disc, less so at the sides ; elytra shortly ovate, the sides broad 

 and inflexed, irregularly and closely pitted, the intervals, except at 

 the base, more or less tuberculate, tubercles in three lines on each 

 elytron, the outer lines of seven tubercles extending from the 

 shoulder to the apex, the intermediate line of four and the interior 

 of three, the larger tubercles conical, each having a minute black 

 seta arising just below its apex behind; abdomen slightly punc- 

 tured. 



