340 Mr. G. J, Arrow on a ContrihiLtion to the 



tuberculata -; protliorace denae sat grosse puuctato, lateribus medio 

 minus angulatis ; elytris grosse punctatis, punctis aliquibus indis- 

 tincte geminato-seriatis, punctulis minutis interspersis ; pygidio 

 subtiliter jjunctato-rugoso, nudo. 



Long. 12-14 mm. Lat. max. 6-7"5 mm. 



Hal). Abyssinia ; Uganda, Fort Ternan ; British 

 East Africa, Naitolia; Upper Congo. 



It is a small species which seems to be nearly related 

 to P. rudis, Raff., described from a single female, but the 

 prothorax has no trace in that sex of the bidentate dorsal 

 carina found in P. rudis. The punctures of the head, 

 prothorax and elytra are extremely coarse and annulate, 

 those of the middle of the elytra forming double rows, 

 which are rather indistinct in the female. The transverse 

 carina upon the head of the female is scarcely visibly 

 tuberculate. The last joint of both the maxillary and 

 labial palpi is very large and deeply channelled in the 

 male. 



Phyllognathus stridiccps, Fairm., is a species of Pycno- 

 scJiema, the narrow constricted clypeus from which it is 

 named being the principal differential feature of the 

 genus. 



The species of the genus Temnorrhynchiis are very 

 feebly differentiated from one another and the difficulty 

 of identifying them is not diminished in the case of the 

 South and East African forms by the fact that several 

 authors have dealt with them without apparent knowledge 

 of each other's work. The most widely distributed of all 

 is that described by Fairmaire in 1868 as T. auHocJms, 

 which appears to range from Abyssinia to Natal. It is 

 said by Fairmaire to be the Goiitorrhinus antiochus of 

 Dejean's Catalogue, but the latter is a Senegal insect, and, 

 according to a specimen from the Dejean Collection in 

 the British Museum, is the form called by Fairmaire 

 T. Diana, Beauv. The East African insect was named 

 T. Diana, var. za^isiharicus by Kolbe in 1887 and in 1897 

 was quoted by him as T. sansibariciis, Kolbe. Finally 

 Mr. P^ringuey in 1900 renamed it T. Faunus. He also 

 ascribed to it, I think rightly, the insect described and 

 figured by Klug as the female of his T. dypeatus. 



The genus Podalgus has been the subject of very great 

 confusion. It occurs first in Dejean's Catalogue for the 

 undescribed West African species P. cunicidus, and genus 



