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(NINTH S!!E1ES.] 



" per lifcora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos eonsidite fontes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite (lores : 

 Floribus et pictum. divae, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nympha? Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata coral! ia trunco 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, De& pelagi, et pingui conchvlia suceo." 



A". Pnrthenii Giannettani, ESol. 1. 



No. 1. JANUARY 1918. 



I. — On new African Curculionidae. — I. 

 By Guy A. K. Marshall, D.Sc. 



[Plate I.] 



Subfamily Brachydemnm. 



Sympiezomias cupreovirens, sp. n. 



<$ ? . Colour black, with dense bright green scaling above 

 and a narrow coppery stripe running from the front margin 

 of the prothorax to the apex of the elytra ; on the prothorax 

 there is sometimes a faint trace of a lateral stripe which is 

 continued on to the base of the elytra ; in some cases the 

 upper surface is coppery, with a narrow lateral green stripe 

 on both prothorax and. elytra; the lower surface in either 

 case rather brassy. 



Head with very sparse shallow punctures which are quite 

 hidden by the scaling, the forehead with a faint central stria 

 continuous with the rostral furrow. Rostrum a little longer 

 than its basal width, parallel-sided, the dorsal outline rather 

 strongly curved ; the upper surface almost flat transversely, 

 with a deep narrow central furrow in the basal half and a 

 broader shallower lateral one on each side flanked internally 

 by a low carina; below and parallel with this a short furrow 

 in front of the eye. Antennte piceous ; joint 1 of the funicle 



Ann. d- Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. i. 1 



