Species of Carculionidse from Africa. H95 



yellowish setae ; the scutellum with similar dense scales 

 concealing its base; the elytra with a broad stripe of large 

 yellowish scales on interval 2 from tlie end of the scutellum 

 to the apex, and with narrow stripes of about the same 

 length, but of small scales on intervals 1, 4, 6, and 8 ; the 

 basal margin also unevenly clothed with yellow scales ; 

 the lower surface and pygidium densely covered with similar 

 large overlapping scales, except on a raised area on the 

 metepisterna. 



Head with coarsely reticulate punctures j forehead at its 

 narrowest narrower than the anteunal club, strongly convex 

 longitudinally, a little higher than the eyes in front, but 

 broadly impressed on its posterior slope ; eyes oval, nearly 

 twice as broad as long, strongly convex. Rostrum gently 

 curved, parallel-sided from the base to the antennae, 

 markedly tapering beyond this in ? , but not or only 

 slightly so in cJ ; in lateral view, the depth distinctly 

 greater than the basal width, slightly diminishing from the 

 base to the middle, and thence rapidly flattening to a point ; 

 the sides and upper surface with very coarse reticulate 

 punctation, which is slightly reduced at the apex in the rf , 

 and gradually converted into very fine scattered punctures 

 in the apical third in the $ . Antenna piceous, the scape 

 slightly compressed, gradually clavate ; the funicle with the 

 two basal joints short, of equal length (seen from below), 

 but the 1st thicker ; the remaining joints all transverse and 

 approximately equal ; the club three times as long as broad, 

 with velvet-brown pubescence. Prothorax almost parallel- 

 sided for a short distance from the base, thence rapidly 

 narrowed and constricted close to the apex ; the apical 

 margin truncate dorsally and sloping obliquely backwards 

 at the sides ; the whole surface with coarse reticulate 

 punctation. Scutellum with the raised basal area separated 

 from the rest by a deep transverse incision, which is com- 

 pletely hidden by the basal patch of scaling ; the bare 

 portion very deeply reticulate. Elytra somewhat longer 

 than broad, widest at the roundly rectangular shoulders and 

 shallowly sinuate behind them, so that the sides of the 

 abdomen are narrowly visible directly from above ; the basal 

 margin very deeply trisinuate, being produced into a 

 prominent angle at the base of interval 4 ; the deep striae 

 indistinctly punctate, the intervals conyex and very rugosely 

 punctate, 3, 5, 7, and 9 being more raised and broader than 

 the others, except 2, which is as broad but flattened ; a very 

 shallow impression near the base on interval 4. Sternum 



