8 Dr. G. A. K. MarslK.il on 



inserted at the middle of the rostrum (<?) or slightly behind 

 it ( ? ) ; the scape as long as the first 3£ joints of the 

 funicle ; and the club narrowly elliptical and distinctly 

 longer than the last three joints, which are slightly trans- 

 verse ; joint 2 of the funicle much longer than 1. Pro- 

 thorax as long as broad, shallowly bisinuate at the base, the 

 sides subparallel or slightly diverging from the base to 

 beyond the middle and converging strongly in front ; the 

 upper surface with very deeply reticulate punctures through- 

 out and without any definite central carina; the deep 

 honeycomb-like punctures are usually filled with extraneous 

 matter, but each contains to one side a curved scale-like seta, 

 the pale ones, which are arranged roughly in three longi- 

 tudinal stripes, being much broader than the dark ones. 

 Elytra much broader than the prothorax, the shoulders 

 roundly rectangular; the striae deeply punctate, the divisions 

 between the punctures more or less granuliform, the inter- 

 vals flat, about as broad as the striae and set with irregular 

 low granules, which are not visible when the scaling is 

 intact ; the scales ovate, dense, and overlapping. Legs with 

 the femora almost linear, the hind pair reaching only the 

 middle of the last ventral segment. Venter with the hind 

 margin of the first, segment shallowly bisinuate. 



Length 7i-8i, breadth 3-3£ mm. 



Transvaal : Pretoria. 



Mr. Claude Fuller, Division of Entomology, Pretoria, 

 states that these weevils were found puncturing the leaves 

 of aloe plants. 



On account of its linear femora this species falls into the 

 subgenus Rhadinomerus, Fst. (rf. Heller, Ent. Tidsk. 1904, 

 p. 186), from the previously described species of which it 

 differs in having two lateral furrows on each side of the 

 anterior half of the rostrum. 



Subfamily Baridin.e. 

 Genus Cylindrobaris, nov. 



Rostrum as long as the prothorax, gibbous at the base and 

 tapering strongly to the apex, with the antennas inserted a 

 little before the middle, and separated from the head by 

 a deep transverse impression ; the scrobes uniting beneath 

 the rostrum; the mandibles strongly bidentate. Antenna 

 with the scape straight, broadly clavate, and not reaching 

 the eye ; the funicle with the two basal joints longer, 

 3-7 transverse and gradually widening outwardly, the 



