er ree ones 
Genera of Wingless Brachyderins. 23 
vertical laterally, the basal margin arcuate; the upper 
surface coarsely coriaceous, with a broad oblong median 
impression, the dorsal outline sloping from base to apex. 
Elytra subglobose, broadest before the middle, the dorsal 
outline strongly convex, deepest before the middle, the base 
sinuate and slightly raised laterally, the apices jointly 
rounded ; set with shallow, irregular, more or less confluent 
and ill-defined fovez, only the juxta-sutural row and those 
on the inflexed sides being regular; the intervals with 
numerous irregular, large, low, rounded tubercles, which are 
bare and closely ‘and finely punctate ; the small broad 
curved sete ave with difficulty distinguishable from the true 
scales, 
Length 10-11 mm., breadth 55-6 unm. 
TRANSVAAL: Pretoria. 
Types, 8 in Dr. D. Sharp’s collection, @? in the British 
Museum. 
Described from 1 ¢ and 6 ? 9, all of which were kindly 
submitted to me by Dr. Sharp, who had already recognized 
that in spite of its superficial resemblance to Blosyrus this 
species is really more closely allied to the Madagascar genus 
Holonychus. 
Genus SYNECHOPS, nov. 
Head with a central furrow which does not reach the 
vertex, not constricted behind the eyes, which are quite 
lateral and very convex. Restrum strongly deflected, con- 
tinuous with the forehead, oblong, the dorsal edges broadly 
rounded off, the lower eames parallel with the upper ; 
epistome quite indefinite posteriorly, the apical edge deeply 
emarginate; mandibles multisetose, not squamose, without 
any median ‘tooth or dorsal longitudinal carina, the scar sub- 
triangular ; mentum setose ; ” serobes narrow, deep, and 
squamose, the upper edge ending on a level with the lower 
margin of the eye, t the apical portion partly visible from 
above. Antenne with the scape rather abruptly clavate, 
reaching about the middle of the eye; funicle squamose, 
the two basal jomts equal. Prothora# transverse, narrower 
in front than behind. Scutellwm small, but distinct. Elytra 
fitting closely to the prothorax, the base not marginate, the 
apices jointly rounded, the shoulders rounded, the punctation 
irregular, Siernum with. the gular margin truncate, the 
cox in the middle of the prosternum, the centro-sternite 
tubercular; mesepisterna meeting the one only at the 
