2G Mr. G. Lewis on 



Ilypocaccus ruhricatus, sp. n. 



Parum late ovalis, convexus, niger, nitidus, elytris partim rufis ; 

 fronte piinctata, triangulariter carinata ; pronoto marginato, punc- 

 tate ; elytris striis dorsalibus 2-4 magis abbreviatis, 1 longiore, 

 4 arcuatim cum suturali juncta, subhumerali externa nulla, interna 

 brevi, disjuncta ; pvgidio a)qualiter et sat dense punctate. 



L. 2| mill. 



Rather widely oval, the elytra belli iid the shoulders beinj^ 

 a little prominent, blacky with the elytra laterally broadly 

 red, and at and near the humeral angles this colour extends 

 across the interstices of the first and second strife ; the head 

 evenly and clearly but not very densely punctured, -with a 

 well-marked sinuous carina separating the epistoma from the 

 head, and being continued behind obliquely meets on the 

 vertex and thus incloses a triangular space — there are also 

 caringe over the eyes which join the anterior sinuous carina, 

 these ocular carinas are feebly sinuous before the eyes; the 

 thorax, marginal stria complete, punctuation somewhat 

 similar to that of the head, but rather more dense in the 

 regions of the anterior angles and less dense on the disk ; 

 the elytra, stria, subhumeral internal broken in the middle, 

 posterior ])art short, anterior part oblique, external wanting, 

 first dorsal shortened before the apical margin, incurved at 

 both ends, second and third incurved at the base and posteriorly 

 scarcely reaching beyond the middle, fourth very similar to the 

 third but arched at the base and joined to the sutural which i.s 

 complete, all the dorsal striae are rather strong, the punctuation 

 is similar to that of the thorax and is contiued to the reo-jon 

 between the fourth and sutural stria; and to the apical area 

 behind the second, third, and fourth strias ; on the propy- 

 gidium and pygidium the punctures are closer but similar; the 

 prosternum triangularly widens out behind the coxa3 and is 

 bistriate, stria do not touch the base, but join anteriorly in 

 front of the coxa3 they run close and jnirallel to each other 

 along a very narrow keel; the anterior tibia are somewhat 

 dilated and are 7-denticulate. 



This species is not much like any previously described but 

 it belongs to Marseul's section of JSaijrinun with " un seul 

 chevron sur le front." The prosternal stria before the coxa 

 are much nearer together than those of //. rugi/rons, Payk. 



Ilah. i'rere (Natal) ; taken in carrion by Mr. Guy A K 

 Marshall (no. 1447). / • • 



