new African Curculionidse. 



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of the rostrum. Rostrum bent before the middle, the apical 

 half flattened dorso-ventrally, with a deep constriction just 

 in front of the eves ; the scrobes beginning at the middle 

 and not passing actually beneath the rostrum at the base, 

 so that the lower edge of the rostrum (when viewed from 

 the side) is visible beneath the lower margin of the aerobe 

 throughout ; the mandibles triangular in cross-section, the 

 outer surface angulate, forming a longitudinal ridge, the 

 cutting-edge shallowly bisinuate. Antenna with the scape 

 not reaching the eve, the two basal joints of the funicle 

 equal, the third only slightly shorter than the second; the 

 club broadly ovate, as long as the two preceding joints, 

 segmented, the margins of the segments almost transverse. 

 Scutellum distinct. Elytra broader than the thorax, with 

 prominent shoulders and ten striae. Legs moderate, the 

 front pair about as long as the hind ; the femora gradually 

 dilated, with a stout tooth, not furrowed beneath, the bind 

 pair not reaching the apex of the elytra; the tibiae com- 

 pressed, strongly bent at the base, the lower edge shallowly 

 bisinuate, the upper surface forming a sharp edge, the apex 

 strongly uncinate, the corbels of the hmd pair open; the 

 tarsal claws simple, stout and free. Sternum with a deep 

 prosternal furrow, which is not continued on to the meso- 

 sternum, the front coxae being as widely separated as the 

 mid pair and having a rather prominent internal apical angle ; 

 the mesepirneron nearly twice the size of the mesepisternum, 

 the intercoxal process lying much below the level of the 

 raid coxae, and the front margin of the cavity of these 

 coxae bearing a distinct short projection ; the metasternum 

 between the coxae more than H times as long as the mid 

 coxae. Venter with segment 2 longer than either 3 or 1, 

 but shorter than the two together, the portion of segment 1 

 behind the coxa distinctly longer than segment 2, the hmd 

 margin of segment 1 straight, the intercoxal process com- 

 paratively narrow and conical. 



Type, Deiradognathus fasciatus, sp. n. 

 This genus falls into Lacordaire's group Ithyporides, and 

 in Faust's kev to the African genera known to him (Stett. 

 Ent Zeit 1893, p." 232) it runs down next to Haplocorynus, 

 Fst' which differs in having the femora abruptly clavate 

 and'the hind pair extending beyond the apex of the elytra, 

 the second joint of the funicle longer than the first, and the 

 portion of the first ventral segment behind the coxae shorter 

 than the second segment. 



It is also allied to the Eastern Cohbodes, Schh. ; but in 

 this genus segment 2 is as long as 3 + 4, the femora have a 



