Genera of Wingless Brachy devine. ul 
or five similar apical spines and two more slender ones on the 
inner surface iu the apical half ; corbels of the hind tibiz 
with a single row of scales at the apex, the apical margin 
narrowly enclosed.  Sternum with the mesepisterna sepa- 
rated from the base of the elytra. 
Length 33-4 mm., breadth 2-2! mm, 
ZULULAND : Ndumu, 1. 1914. 
Like a small specimen of P. amplicollis, Fhs., to which 
it is very nearly related, but in that species the rostrum 
is more distinctly carinate, the hind margin of the orbit 1s 
produced beyond the eye, the sides of the prothorax are 
more explanate and much more strongly rounded, and its 
base is not marginate. 
The adult beetles were found eating the leaves of the 
ground-nut (Arachis hypogea). Received from the Division 
of Entomolog gy, Pretoria. 
Protostrophus spinicollis, sp.n. (PI. I. fig. 5.) 
3 ?. Colour black, the upper surface and the sternum 
clothed with dense pale green scales, those on the legs, 
venter, and the inflexed margins of the elytra being grey 
with a pale coppery reflexion, which colouring is also some- 
times present on the head and pronotum., 
Head separated from the rostrum by a deeply curved 
stria, which nearly reaches the eye on each side; the fore- 
head flattened and on a lower level than the inner edges of 
the orbits, rugosely punctate (concealed by the scaling), and 
with a broad and deep central furrow ; eyes very prominent 
and strongly produced backwards, moderately convex, and 
with the greatest depth far behind the middle, the posterior 
edge of the orbit not projecting. Rostrum unusually long 
and narrow, distinctly louger than its basal width, sharply 
narrowing from the base to the middle and thence parallel- 
sided to the apex ; the upper surface almost flat, set with 
coarse shallow punctures, each containing a scale, and with- 
out any furrow or carina; the gene simply rounded, not 
impressed. Antenne with the first funicular joint broader 
and much longer than the second, which is nearly twice as 
long as the third. Prothorax broader than long, the sides 
gradually rounded from the apex to behind the middle and 
there armed with a sharp backwardly-directed tooth, behind 
which the sides are deeply sinuated, so that the base is 
scarcely wider than the apex; the basal margin rounded, 
with a shallow sinuation in the middle, the apical margin 
truncate; the upper surface strongly conyex transversely 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. i. 2 
