Coleojytera from South Africa. 187 



pitted and with two conspicuous sharp spines on each side of the 

 central part of the disk, and also a row of smaller ones on the 

 lateral part ; elytra very gibbose, sub-pedunculate, retuse behind 

 and having on each side two rows of regularly set conical tubercles 

 reaching from base to apex, sides regularly and broadly foveate. 

 Length (rostrum excluded) 8, width 3^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Albany). 



Gen. Brachycerus, Oliv. 

 B. indutus, n. sp. 



Black, covered with a very dense squamiform, light brown 

 tomentum ; scape of antennae cylindi'ical, not narrowed at the 

 base, and short ; rostrum long, bluntly bi-tuberculate at the base, 

 sinuate laterally and gradually broadening towards the apex, eyes 

 without any supra-orbital ridge ; head small ; prothorax broader 

 than long, with the median part of the sides pluri-tuberculate and 

 projecting, anterior margin broadly sinuate laterally, anterior part 

 not projecting, disk moderately convex and with a broad median 

 longitudinal groove interrupted in the middle, posterior margin 

 straight, deeply and irregularly foveate all over ; elytra convex, 

 truncate at the base, declivous behind, somew^hat ovate, having 

 on each side five series of closely-set sharp tubercles, and four 

 more along the sides, these lateral tubercles being blunt, the intervals 

 between the series of dorsal tubercles foveate, covered with 

 a dense light-brown tomentum, and at the base, there is on each 

 side of the scutellary region an elongated and conspicuous tubercle 

 covered with a velvety-black tomentum ; legs thick, bristly. 

 Length (rostrum excluded) 10-15, width 6-9 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Vaal River), Mozambique (Rikatla). 



B. diver gens, n. sp. 



Black, more or less densely covered with yellowish squamae ; 

 rostrum long, bi-tuberculate and constricted at the base, gradually 

 dilated from the stricture to the apex, foveolate, and with short 

 sets ; scape of anteunte incurved, clubbed at the tip, as long as 

 the four following joints together, terminal joint thickened ; 

 eyes without orbital ridge ; prothorax deeply sinuate laterally 

 in the anterior part, and with the median part projecting, broadly 

 and deeply grooved longitudinally from the apex to about the 

 median part of the disk, closely tuberculated, with the intervals 

 deeply foveate, and with the median part of the outer sides pro- 



