160 M. Louis Peringuey on neic genera and species of 



greatly elongated, the one near to the median is nearly obliterated), 

 the declivous part closely punctured for about two-thirds of the 

 length, and there is a broad, although little raised, lateral callus ; 

 in the $ the anterior part alone of the prothorax is declivous, and 

 in the median part there is a transverse carina, slightly sinuate in 

 the centre, and the punctures are much deeper than in the $ and 

 nearly confluent ; elytra very convex, finely striate, strife punctu- 

 late ; underside very hairy ; anterior tibife with five teeth. Length 

 23-24, width lL-l(3i mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban) ; Zambezia (Victoria Falls). 



Fairmaire has described in the '' Annales de la 

 Sociere Entomologique de Belgique," vol. xxxviii., 1894, 

 p. 652, a large species from the Congo (French Terri- 

 toi'y), which, judging from the description, seems to 

 be somewhat allied to B. panza, and which, he justly 

 remarks, is not unlike some Australian species; he adds, 

 however, that the African species are small and without 

 " armature,^' by which expression he means, I presume, 

 prothoracic horns. I have retained for this species the 

 name (in litteris, Dohrn) it bore in Lansberg's collec- 

 tion, now the property of Mons. R. Oberthiir. 



MEL0L0NTHIDE3. 



Gen. Ehabdopholis, Burm. 



R. irrorata, n. sp. 



Head, prothorax, and underside piceous-black, elytra and legs 

 chestnut-brown ; clypeus narrow, recurved, punctured like the 

 head, with white squamae in the punctures ; head with a blunt 

 median longitudinal ridge and an elongated impression on each 

 side, followed by a smooth space, squamag not dense ; prothorax 

 broader than long, a little attenuate laterally from the outer 

 angle to near the median part, nearly straight behind, closely 

 punctured and squamose, with the anterior and lateral margins 

 fringed with very long hairs, the central part of the disk w^ith 

 two broad, but shallow, longitudinal punctured grooves separated 

 by three smooth intervals, and a supra-lateral one also edged with 

 a smooth interval on either side, the scales on the outer margin 

 thicker than on the disk ; elytra oblong-ovate, costate, with the 

 intervals broad, and having a duplicate series of punctures, each of 

 which bears one, or more, whitish scales, outer margin more densely 

 scaly than the other intervals; underside densely hairy, the hairs 

 of the metasternum very long, abdomen densely squamose. 

 Length 15, width 7^ mm. 



