18 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on Ajrican 
and moderately so on its long axis, finely wrinkled longi- 
tudinally (the sculpture hidden by the scaling, but the 
ridges showing through here and there like shiny granules), 
and with a broad central furrow, which is almost filled by a 
broad, flattened, shiny, impunctate carina. /i/ytra oval, 
broadest about the middle, jointly sinuate at the base, with 
the external angles projecting forwards into a short blunt 
point ; when the scaling is intact the strize appear narrow 
and very shallow, the intervals being broad, flat, and set 
with minute indistinct punctures (hidden by the scaling) ; 
the scales are small, almost circular, and contiguous, but not 
overlapping ; the sete are short, dark, scale-like, and 
recumbent.. Legs with the corbels of the hind tibiz bare, 
and the apical margin narrowly enclosed ; the front tibice 
without distinct apical teeth. Sternum with the mesepi- 
sterna broadly meeting the elytra. 
Length 33-4 mm., breadth 13-2 mm. 
TransvaaL : Naboomspruit (D. Anderson). 
An isolated species, distinguished by its long narrow 
rostrum, prominent eyes, and toothed prothorax. 
Received from the Division of Entomology, Pretoria, 
with the information that the beetles were destroying young 
maize-plants. 
Genus Lrurops, nov. 
Head broad, the forehead almost fiat and with a central 
stria which does not quite reach the vertex ; eyes quite 
lateral, short-oval, horizontal, and only slightly convex, the 
curvature being unusually low as compared with allied 
genera. Rostrum a little longer than the head, strongly 
narrowed from base to apex, and completely continuous 
with the forehead; gene not dilated; epistome small, 
depressed, the sides not carinate, the front margin shallowly 
sinuate ; mandibles scaly and multisetose, with a strong 
median tooth, the scar almost circular and not very distinct; 
mentum with the basal half depressed and more or less 
deeply sunk in its cavity, the front half with numerous sete; 
scrobes very narrowly visible from above and broadly dilated 
behind. Antenne with the scape slender, abruptly clavate 
and reaching about the middle of the eye ; funicle squamose, 
joint 1 much longer than 2, the remainder slightly longer 
than broad. Prothorax broadest at the base, the basal 
margin rounded. Scuteldum minute. Llytra fitting very 
closely to the prothorax, their sides forming very nearly a 
continuous line; the dorsal longitudinal curvature very flat 
