2 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on 



as long as 2 + 3+1; joint 2 about as long as broad, the 

 remainder transverse. Proihorax slightly broader than 

 long, the apex much narrower than the base, the sides 

 moderately rounded, broadest about the middle, the apical 

 constriction shallow; the upper surface with very shallow 

 and sparse punctation, which is entirely hidden, and a deep 

 narrow central furrow that docs not quite reach either the 

 apex or base. Elytra narrowly subelliptical, broadest about 

 the middle, the apices jointly rounded in both sexes, dis- 

 tinctly more pointed behind in the ? and with the extreme 

 tip produced slightly downwards ; the shallow strife appear 

 extremely narrow when the scaling is intact, and the punc- 

 tures are almost hidden ; the intervals are flat, dull, and 

 finely rugulose beneath the scaling, each bearing a single 

 row of very short and inconspicuous recumbent scale-like 

 setse. Legs pieeous, with the tibiae and tarsi more reddish. 



Length 5-6, breadth 2 mm. 



Natal: Vlakhock (H. J. Stiebel — type). Tkansvaal : 

 Johannesburg (Harold A. Fry). 



The Natal specimens were forwarded by the Division of 

 Entomology, Pretoria, with the information that the insects 

 were destroying young leaves on apple-trees. 



Very closely allied to S. (Piasomias) viridanus, Fhs., 

 which occurs also in the Transvaal ; but that species differs 

 in having the prothorax a little longer (at least as long as 

 broad), only slightly narrower at the apex than at the base, 

 and with the surface rugosely sculptured in longitudinal 

 wrinkles; the head is granulose (beneath the scaling) and 

 somewhat striolate on the forehead, the eyes being distinctly 

 shorter and more convex ; the rostrum is proportionately 

 broader, slightly widened at the gense, and with the dorsal 

 outline almost straight ; the teeth on the inner edge of the 

 tibiae are shorter and more slender, &c. 



The genus Sympiezomias, Fst., has not keen previously 

 recorded from Africa, but there seems to be no reason for 

 separating these two insects from the Indian species, despite 

 the difference in the structure of the scales, all of which 

 have a small boss-like elevation in the middle, like those of 

 the Indian genera Lepidospyris, Mshl., and Tylopholis, Mshl. 



Subfamily Otiobbstnchinm. 



Genus Spiikigodes, Gerst. 



Sphrigodes gunni, sp. n. 



S . Colour black, with dense dark brown scaling above, 



variegated with stripes and spots of whitish scales, the lower 



