188 M, Louis Peringuey on tieiv genera and siiecies of 



duced in a very sharp triangular pluri-tuberculated spine : elytra 

 very convex, sub-globose, moderately retuse behind, with three 

 rows on each side of well-developed and somewhat sharp tubercles, 

 and two intermediate ones smaller and blunter in the intervals, the 

 first one running alongside the suture from the base almost to the 

 apex, the second stopping short of the posterior declivity, 

 lateral part with three or four series of blunter tubercles ; 

 the intervals are sub-foveate and squamose, the squamas are 

 denser on the median part, where they form a distinct, more or less 

 sinuate, small pale yellow patch on each side of the suture ; 

 legs thick, bristly. licngth 14, width 8 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



B. effertus, n. sp. 



Black, densely covered with ochraceous scales : rostrum long, 

 dilated triangularly towards the apex, separated from the head by 

 a deep groove, and constricted below this groove and at a little 

 distance from it, deeply foveate in the basal part, hardly so in the 

 apical ; head small, eyes elongate-ovate, depressed ; prothorax 

 sharply aculeate laterally in the middle, set on the disk with round, 

 flattened tubercles, grooved in the median part from apex to base, 

 the anterior part of the groove broad, deep, and limited by two 

 rounded, tuberculated ridges, one on each side; elytra very convex, 

 obovate, moderately retuse behind, and having on each side, 

 besides a juxta-sutural one, four regular series of rounded, 

 flattened, denuded tubercles, those of the alternate series much 

 larger than the others, sides with several rows of smaller, regularly 

 disposed tubercles, and all the intervals densely clothed with 

 ochraceous scales ; legs moderately thick, not very bristly, supra- 

 apical end of femora ringed with lighter ochraceous scales. 

 Length (rostrum excluded) 25, width 19 mm. 



Hob. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Allied to B. natalennis, B. hrevicostatiis, Fahr., etc. 



ATTELABIDES. 



Gen. Attelabus, Linn. 



A, carneolns, n. sp. 



Light testaceous-red with a fleshy tinge, glabrous ; antenuse 

 shorter than the head, black, with the two basal joints red ; head 

 plicate transversely, grooved longitudinally from the vertex to 



