Genera of Wingless Brachyderinee. 7 
edge, and one on the lower edge ; hind tibic also with four 
apical spines and two on the lower edge, the corbel with 
a dorsal border of two to four short, closely set-spines and a 
longer terminal one. 
Length 3-34 mm., breadth 2-24 mm. 
TRANSVAAL: Benoni, 22. xi. 17 (EZ. Buckles). 
Described from five specimens forwarded by the Division 
of Entomology, Pretoria, with a note that the species was 
damaging the leaves and bark of Hucalyptus viminalis. 
Genus Pompuus, nov. 
Head short and broad, with a central stria that reaches 
the vertex and another on each side about midway between 
it and the eyes, behind which there is a deep constriction ; 
eyes quite lateral, very prominent, subconical, not or but 
slightly sloping backwards, their greatest depth behind the 
middle. Rostrum strongly narrowed in front, longer than 
the head and separated from it by a stria which runs from 
the eye to the apex of the outer stria on the forehead, 
and there making a sharp angle runs forwards to the apex 
of the median stria; from the middle of the base diverge 
two oblique abbreviated furrows ; epistome sharply defined, 
almost an equilateral triangle, the sides forming a very low 
carina; mandibles multisetose, with only a few scales and an 
obtuse median tooth, the scar almost circular; mentum bare, 
immersed ; scrobes narrow, deep, bare, and almost straight 
in the basal two-thirds, the upper edge ending a little below 
the lower margin of the eye. Antenne with the scape 
rather slender, abruptly clavate and reaching beyond the 
middle of the eye; funicle not squamose, joint 1 as long as 
but thicker than 2, the remainder bead-like. Prothorax 
at least twice as broad as long, truncate at base and apex. 
Scutellum invisible. Hlytra broadly ovate, the longitudinal 
outline moderately convex, not continuous with that of the 
pronotum, the basal margin jointly sinuate and elevated, 
the angles projecting, the punctation more or less irregular, 
Sternum with the gular margin sinuate, the front coxe 
nearer to it than to the hind margin, the front margin raised 
into a prominent ridge on each side from the eye nearly 
as far as the coxa; mesepisternum meeting the elytron 
at the base; metasternum between the coxe hardly half as 
long as the mid-coxe, the episternal furrow complete, the 
episternum not produced inwardly at the base, the hind 
cox broadly separated from the elytra. Venter with the 
