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red-brown ; the whole clothed with cream-coloured scales 

 of varying density and dusted with yellow powder, and with 

 the following ill-defined darker markings due to the scales 

 being narrower or more sparse, so that the ground-colour 

 shows through : a broad discal stripe on the prothorax, 

 extending outwardly as far as stria 4 of the elytra at the 

 base and narrowing to the apex ; on the elytra a large basal 

 patch extending from stria 3 to 8, and an oblique one 

 extending from the suture before the middle to stria 7 

 behind the middle. 



Head with close shallow confluent punctation, the fore- 

 head flattened and with a central fovea. Rostrum about as 

 long as the prothorax in the $ , a little shorter in the <$ , 

 moderately stout, almost straight, coarsely and confluently 

 punctate throughout in both sexes, the basal third with 

 fairly dense scaling. Antenna with joint 1 of the funicle 

 nearly as long as the next three together, joints 3-6 trans- 

 verse and subequal, 7 closely annexed to the club and as 

 long as its two basal joints. Prothorax a little broader than 

 long (5 : 4), parallel-sided from the base to beyond the 

 middle, thence narrowing with a curve and constricted at 

 some distance from the apex, the apical margin gently 

 arcuate dorsally ; the upper surface beneath the scaling dull 

 and shagreeued, and uniformly set with small separated 

 rounded granules, except the apical area which is punctate ; 

 all the scales fringed at their tips. Scutellum slightly 

 elevated, trapezoidal, broadest at the apex, bare. Elytra 

 cylindrical, nowhere wider than the thorax, and the sides 

 forming practically a continuous line with those of the 

 latter ; the shallow striae with deep oblong separated punc- 

 tures, the intervals rugulose and only a little broader than 

 the septa between the punctures, but the sculpture mostly 

 hidden beneath the scaling ; a broad shallow circum- 

 scutellar impression, and a deeper one at the base of striae 

 4 and 5 ; the scales ovate, narrowed and shortly fringed at 

 the tip. Legs rugose, fairly densely clothed with elongate 

 scales ; the femoral tooth well developed, that of the front 

 pair the largest and with an additional small tooth at its 

 base ; the front tibiae sharply angulate at the middle on the 

 inner edge, the posterior pairs straight internally. 



Length 8'25-H mm., breadth 32-4 mm. 



S. Khodesia : Salisbury, 1893 (G. A. K. M.). 



Belongs to the group of cylindrical species represented by 

 A. sparsus, Boh., and A. exilis, Boh., but distinguished by 

 its much larger size, very different and Lixus-\\ke colouring, 

 and its simple mid and hind tibiae. 



Described from twelve specimens. 



