Species 0/ Curculionidae from Africa. 



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Genitalia : in the <? (text-fig. 4, b) the median lobe is arched, 

 strongly chitinized above, but almost membranous beneath, 

 broadly spatulate beyond the orifice, the spatula with a 

 long backwardly-directed tooth on each side ; the struts 

 long, slender, and rather sinuous, somewhat longer than the 

 median lobe ; the sac projecting far beyond the base of 



Fig. 4. 



Fie:. 5. 



Ancylocnemis fasciculata, sp. 11. 



the median lobe, without any armature, but with a large 

 transfer-apparatus; the tegmeu slender, the ring mem- 

 branous on its dorsal third, the strut similar to, but a little 

 shorter than, the struts of the median lobe ; the spiculum 

 strong and broad, widely forked at the base and curved like 



