new African Curculionidse. 7 



punctures, with the intervals minutely sculptured, and there 

 is a well-marked central carina (visible through the scaling) 

 running from the base for two-thirds of the length. 

 Scut el I um bearing in front an erect compressed prominence, 

 which is rendered less noticeable by the fact that the rest of 

 the surface is covered by a cushion of erect red-brown scales 

 of the same height. Elytra jointly sinuate at the base, very 

 gradually narrowed behind from the shoulders, which are 

 almost right angles, with a deep oblique impression before 

 the apices, which are separated, each bearing a small 

 tubercle ; the upper surface with regular rows of large 

 shallow punctures, which are more or less concealed by the 

 scaling, the intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 slightly more raised ; 

 interval 3 with a large boss-like patch of raised scales near 

 the base, a long one close behind it which just reaches the 

 pale band, a rounded one at the hind edge of the band, and 

 a row of much smaller ones from there to the apex ; 

 interval 5 with similar but smaller raised patches on a level 

 with the two front ones on 3, a small one in the pale band 

 in front of that on 3, and a large dark boss-like one on the 

 declivity ; a row of variable and often indistinct small 

 prominences on interval 7 and on the declivity only of 

 interval 1. 



Length 12-14, width 5-5| mm. 



S. Rhodesia: Bulawayo (F. Eyles). 



Jfecistocei-us aloes, sp. n. 



^ ? . Colour black, with fairly dense dark brown scaling, 

 irregularly and indefinitely variegated on the elytra with 

 paler scales ; the legs greyish brown, all the tibite having 

 a dark band in the basal half, and the hind femora with a 

 large dark patch about the middle. 



Head with coarse confluent punctation, each puncture 

 being filled with a broad scale ; the forehead without a 

 central furrow. Rostrum — (J) rather coarsely and con- 

 fluently punctate throughout, with a sharp central carina 

 in the basal half and on each side a broad shallow lateral 

 furrow, which almost reaches the apex, but becomes broader 

 and indefinite in the basal third, and below this in the 

 apical half another shallow punctate furrow, which forms 

 a continuation of the scrobe almost to the apex ; ( $ ) 

 coarsely punctate only at the sides of the basal third, the 

 remainder shiny and with fine seattered punctures, without 

 any central carina, and the upper lateral furrow deeper and 

 more sharply defined than in the $ . Antennie piceous ; 



