(Jentrn of Whujh.ss IJracliytleriiuc. 7 



Vi\\i,c, and one on the lower cil^c ; liitul tibin_' also with lour 

 apical spiiu's ami two on the lower edj^e, the corbel with 

 u dorsal border of two to four short, closely set spines and a 

 lonjjer terminal one. 



Lfiii/tli .'J .'5i mm., breadth *2-.v.| mm. 



Thansvaak: Ik'noni, 'Z^l. xi. 17 (A', liuckhs). 



Dcscrilx'd (roni five specimens t'orward(;d by the Division 

 of Entomolof^y, Pretoria, with a uot<! that the species was 

 damajjing the leaves and bark of liucalyptus viininulls. 



(lenns I'oMi'Hus, nov. 



lleuil short and broad, with a central stria that reaches 

 the vertex and anotlier on each side about midway bt'twecii 

 it and the eyes, behind which there is a deep constriction ; 

 eyes quite lateral, very prominent, subconical, not or but 

 slightly slopinjjj backwards, their greatest depth behind the 

 miildle. Rostrum strongly narrowed in front, longer than 

 tlie head anil se])arat(d from it by a stria which runs from 

 the eye to the apex of the outer stria on the forehead, 

 and there making a sharp angle runs forwards to the apex 

 of the median stria; from the middle of the base diverge 

 two oblique abbreviated furrows ; epistome sharply defined, 

 almost an equilateral triangle, the sides forming a very low 

 carina; mandibles ninltisctose, with only a few scales and an 

 obtuse median tooth, the scar almost circular; nicntum bare, 

 immerstd ; scrol)es narrow, deep, bare, and almost straight 

 in the basal two-thirds, the upper edge ending a little below 

 the lower margin of the eye. Aiitennce with the scape 

 rather ^lender, abruptly elavate and reaching beyond the 

 middle of the eye; funicle not scinamosc, joint 1 as long as 

 Init thicker than 2, the riniainder bead-like. Prothorax 

 at least twice as broad as long, truncate at Ijase and apex. 

 Scutellum invisible. Elytra broadly ovate, the longitudinal 

 outline moderately convex, not continuous with that of the 

 pronotuni, the basal margin jointly sinuate and elevated, 

 the angles projecting, the punetation more or less irregular. 

 ttcrnuin with the gular margin sinuate, the front co\;e 

 nearer to it than to the hind margin, the front margin raised 

 into a i)rominent ridge on each side from the eye nearly 

 as far as the coxa; mesepisternum meeting the elytron 

 at the base; metusternum between the coxje Imrdly half as 

 long as the mid-coxie, the e|)isternal fuirow complete, the 

 episternum not produced inw;irdiy at the base, the hind 

 coxae broadly sepanitcd from the elytra, feiiter with the 



