184 M. Louis Peringuey on new genera and species of 



Very closely allied to C. malepicta, Fairm., but with 

 tlie subhumeral band of the elytra better defined, the two 

 median bands a little broader, and the supra-apical one 

 uninterrupted. 



Family CURCULIONID^. 

 BRACHYDERIDES. 



Group TANYMECINJE. 



Gen. PoLYCLEis, Bohem. 

 P. siimptnosus, n. sp. 



Oblong-ovate, black, densely covered with green scales, elytra 

 with two greenish-white lateral patches, of which the anterior one 

 situated above the median part is the broadest of the two, the 

 other, a small one, is equidistant from the median and 

 apical parts, and a little beyond the median part of the disk there 

 is a transverse baud reaching on each side from the middle of the 

 elytra to the suture ; rostrum grooved horizontally in the central 

 part only, and slightly carinate at the apex ; prothorax gradually 

 ampliated from the apex to the base, with the outer sides straight, 

 twice the width of the apex at the base and with the basal angles 

 sharp and projecting backward, very finely punctured and without 

 any median groove ; scutellum elongate, rounded at the apex ; 

 elytra nearly twice as broad near the base as the prothorax at 

 its widest part, but with the outer angles sloping, and the shoulders 

 sub-tuberculate, gradually narrowed behind, very convex, and with 

 the suture acuminate on each side at the apex, striate,' but not 

 deeply, and with the anterior part distinctly punctured, the 

 punctures, however, being generally hidden by the green squamaj ; 

 antenna and tarsi black and covered with a thick, white pubes- 

 cence. Length 20, width 8 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Buluwayo). 



Belongs to the group of P. eqiiestris, Boh., and P. 

 cinereus, Fahr., but neither the prothorax nor the elytra 

 are quite so much ampliated. 



