Guy a. K. MARSHALL 



On a new species of Curculionidae 



injurious to olives in South Africa. 



Professor F. Silvestri has kindly submitted to me for deter- 

 mination two specimens of a weevil which has been bred from 

 South African olives. The insects pi'ove to be not only specifically 

 new, but a new genus must be founded for their reception. 



Anchouocranus gen. no v. 



Anguste elongatus , corpore squamulis latis planis subimbricatis 

 induto. Caput pone oculos valde constrictum, hi.^ sicut in bast rostri 

 posiils, rude granulatis et setis latis squami f or mibus sat dense obsitis. 

 Rostrum cum fronte continuum, rectum, crassuni, elongatum; scrobibus 

 paulo pone apicem incipientibus, latis, profundis, subter basin rostri 

 continuatisi submento evidenter pedunculato, mento parvo, palpis apertis. 

 Antennae ante medium rostri insertae ; scapo subrecto, vix clavaio, mar- 

 ginem oculi posteriorem attingente; funiculo 7 -ariiculato, davo breviter 

 ovato. Prothrorax subconicus, supra subdeplanatus, margine antico oblique 

 truncato, coxis anticis contiguis, in medio prosterni positis. Scutellum, 

 parvum. Elytra ad basin quam basi prothoracis vix latiora, humeris 

 vix ullis, pygidium obtegentia. Epimeron mesosterni non ascendens, 

 episterno fere aequale; metasternum elongatum, episterno distincto, interne 

 ad basin hamato, coxis posticis ab elytris late separatis. Pedes crassi 

 breves, posticis apicem elytrorum vix attingentibus ; femoribus modice 

 clavatis, inermibus ; tibiis brevihus, quam tarsis vix longioribus, ad 

 apicem inermibus, corbulis apertis; tarsis latis, subtus spongiosis, articulo 

 iertio fortiter dilatato, quarto tertii apicem, vix superante, clavis crassis, 

 simplicibus, valde divaricatis. Venter segmentis 1-4 externe angulato-pro- 

 ductis, segmento 2 paulo longiore quam 3-\-4. 



Type Anchonocranus oleae sp. n. 



According to Lacordaire's classification, — which with all its 

 defects still remains the onlv classification of the Curculionidae 



