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*' perlifcoraspargifce musoum, 



Lea, el oiroum vitreos oonsidite f mites: 

 I'o! lie.' rireineo fceneros h'lc carpi te flores: 

 Floribue et pictum, diva 1 , replete canistram. 

 \i cob, o Nyrnphse Craterides, ite sub umlas ; 

 It.-, reourvato variata oorallia trnnoo 

 Vellite mnsoosis e rupibns, et milii conchas 

 Eerte, Deae pelagi, c-t pingui conchylia succo." 



y. Parfhenii Giannettasi, Koi. 1. 



No. 1. JANUARY 1918. 



I. — On new African Curculionidae. — I. 

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



[Plate I.] 



Subfamily Bsachtberin^. 



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 ; beiow and parallel with this a short furrow 

 in front of the eye. Antenna piceous : joint 1 of the funicle 



Ann. dk Mag. X. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. i. 1 



