180 M. Louis Peringuey on new genera and sjpecies of 



carinate along the point of insertion of the antennae ; prothorax 

 nearly straight laterally, truncate in front, bi-sinuate at base, 

 plane, a little dehiscent in the anterior part, glabrous, closely punc- 

 tured and with two faint impressions, one on each side ; elytra 

 sub-cylindrical, sharply carinate, intervals closely and deeply 

 punctured, the punctures in the first and second intervals not 

 so deep as in the others ; underside glabrous, with the exception of 

 the abdomen, which is clothed with very short pubescence. Length 9, 

 width ?>\ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kowie Eiver). 



Family CERAMBYCID^E. 



Subfamily LAMIINI. 



Gen. Brimus, Pasc. 



B.ixiscoei, n. sp. 



Black, covered with a very short, slightly greyish tomentum, 

 lateral part of the scutellum, of the meso- and metasternum, and 

 also of the abdominal segments, clothed with a bright ochraceous 

 pubescence ; head rugulose, clypeus distinct, vertex deeply and 

 broadly grooved, frontal and hind part with a very fine groove ; the 

 two basal joints of antenna black, the others rufescent ; prothorax 

 as long as broad, sharply aculeate laterally at the middle, grooved 

 transversely in front and behind, median part of the disk slightly 

 raised in the shape of a lozenge and narrowly grooved longitudi- 

 nally ; elytra three times as loug as the prothorax, elongate-ovate, 

 with the sutural part incised at the apex, very convex in the 

 middle, gradually sloping behind, a little broader at the base than 

 the hind part of the prothorax, with the humeral angles diagonal 

 and produced in a short tubercle, granulated for about one-fifth of 

 their length, punctured from the base to about the median part and 

 not punctate behind ; legs with long pubescence, tibiaa dilated 

 from the median part to the apex, the intermediate ones almost 

 laminated outwardly. Length 29, width 10 mm. 



Much larger than B. sjnnosns, Pasc, and without any 

 basal tubercle on the elytra, which are not mottled with 

 grey. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



