Species o/'Curculionidse /Vo??i Africa. 383 



flattened, coarsely punctate throughout, and clothed with 

 pale scales and recumbent buff or brownish setse ; the 

 strongly convex eyes deepest much behind the middle. 

 Rostrum parallel-sided, the dorsal edges rounded, the basal 

 half of the dorsum clothed with scales and setse, the apical 

 half (comprising the epistome) bare, shiny, and coarsely 

 punctate. Antenna setose and without scaling ; joint 2 of 

 the funicle a little shorter than 1, 3 and 4 each shorter still, 

 4 to 6 of about equal lengths but widening outwardly, 

 being distinctly transverse. Prothorax very slightly 

 broader than long, the sides gently rounded, almost parallel 

 in the basal half, the truncate apex much narrower than the 

 gently arcuate base, the apical margin sloping obliquely 

 backwards at the sides and without postocular lobes ; the 

 upper surface convex, with the apex a little lower than the 

 Tjase, shallowly and reticulately punctate, the intervals very 

 finely shagreened, and without any median furrow or carina. 

 Elytra broad, oblong-ovate, the shoulders rounded subrect- 

 angular, thence parallel-sided to beyond the middle ; the 

 strise rather shallow, with deep separated punctures, the 

 intervals slightly convex and evenly raised, with irregular 

 rows of recumbent setre, and with a low pre-apical callus ; 

 the scales subtriangular, not overlapping, and a little smaller 

 than those on the prothorax. Legs with separated pale 

 scales and recumbent setee, the tibipe usually with a dark 

 band above the middle. 



Length 5-6*5 mm., breadth 2*5-3"5 mm. 



Natal: Malvern ( C. N. Barker — type); Umkoraaas Mouth, 

 ix. 1897 (G. A. K. M.). Portuguese E. Africa: Caia, 

 Zambesi R., ix. 1910 (Dr. H. Swale). Uganda: Daro 

 Forest, Toro, 4000-4500 ft., x. 1911 {Dr. S. A. Neave). 



The male genitalia (text-fig. 2) are of a normal Hyperine 

 type. The median lobe (a) is in the form of a very strongly 

 arched, broad, open trough, which is abruptly narrowed at 

 the functional orifice ; on the lower surface near the orifice 

 there is a median sharp longitudinal carina ; the apex of the 

 lobe is shortly pointed and the lateral margin on each side 

 of it is broadly lobate ; the struts are almost hinged at their 

 junction and are a little longer than the lobe. The sac, 

 when uneverted, extends backwards a little beyond the ends 

 of the struts ; the distal half is densely set internally with 

 minute spicules, in front of which lie four symmetrically 

 placed, elongate, longitudinal chitinous plates, the rest of 

 the sac being simple. The tcgmen is nearly membranous 

 on the dorsal half of the ring, and its strut is about as broad 



