10 On new African Curculionidae. 



and a broad transverse band at two-thirds from the base 

 extending from stria 1 to 9; a broad stripe down the middle 

 of the prosternum and mesosternum and partly invading the 

 coxaa, the whole of the mesepimeron, a spot at the base of 

 the metepisternum, a small patch at each apical external 

 angle of the metasternum, and a large transverse patch on 

 each side of the first ventral segment. 



c? $ . Head bare, acicnlate, with shallow separated punc- 

 tures. Rostrum sharply bent downwards near the base, and 

 from there nearly straight to the apex, without carinas or 

 sulci, coarsely and confluently punctate from the base to the 

 end of the scrobe, the punctures being very much larger on 

 the sides of the deep compressed basal area and each con- 

 taining a short linear scale-like seta, the apical areamuch more 

 finely and sparsely punctate. Antennae with the club of the 

 scape shallowly excavated on its lower face, the side that 

 fits into the scrobe protected by a patch of stiff scale-like 

 bristles ; the funicle with joint 1 a little longer than 2, 

 joint 3 quadrate. Prothorax very slightly widened from 

 the base to the middle, and there rather abruptly and 

 strongly narrowed to the apex, but without any distinct 

 apical constriction, the front margin truncate dorsally, the 

 dorsal outline rather strongly convex longitudinally and 

 deepest a little behind the middle; the upper surface 

 uniformly and closely covered with fine wavy ridges, which 

 converge obliquely towards the front margin in the anterior 

 half and in the hinder half form roughly concentric curves 

 round the highest point ; lying transversely to the ridges 

 are numerous short linear scale-like white setse. Elytra 

 elongate, with the sides shallowly sinuate in the middle, 

 separately rounded at the base, and a little broader than the 

 prothorax at the shoulders, which are obtusely prominent ; 

 the upper surface moderately shiny and devoid of scaling 

 (except for the markings described above), with regular 

 deep punctate strire, of which the 7th and 8th begin only at 

 about one-fourth from the base, and the 10th is broadly 

 interrupted in the middle; the intervals broad and flat, 

 bearing numerous transverse cuts or excisions, each of 

 which contains a short recumbent dark seta, and interval 3 

 markedly broader at the base than the adjoining ones ; the 

 punctures in the striae contain very short sctsc which do not 

 rise above the edges of the stria. Legs set with coarse 

 punctures (rounded on the femora and elongate on the 

 tibia-) bearing white scab -like seta 1 . 

 Length 7-\), breadth 2^-3 mm. 



