Species of CuYCu\\omi.\ai from Africa. 373 



base ; the apical margin gently arcuate dorsally and very 

 oblique at the sides ; the basal margin not broader than the 

 apical, very slightly arcuate, ahnost truncate, with a deeply 

 impressed transverse line close to the edge ; the dorsum 

 strongly convex transversely and slightly so longitudinally, 

 the apex being lower than the base ; the coriaceous 

 sculpturing hidden by the scaling, except along a slightly 

 raised median line, which extends from the basal stria 

 to a little distance behind the apex ; the flattened sette 

 rccum])ent. Elytra broadly ovate, widest about the middle, 

 rather broadly rounded behind, the dorsal outline almost 

 flat, the basal margin sinuate ; the strife very shaHow, but 

 the punctures deep and distinctly visible through the 

 scaling; each interval with a row of numerous curved^ 

 or slightly raised, flattened seta? ; the scales not larger than 

 those on the pronotum. Legs with the tibite not denticulate 

 internally, the apical mucro inconspicuous, the front pair 

 with the apical teeth stout and extending a sliort distance 

 up the external cA^e, the hind pair with the corbels dis- 

 tinctly enclosed, bare, the upper edge angulate at its base. 

 Sternum with the front coxaj in the middle of the prosternum, 

 the centro-sterual piece forming a small tubercle. 



The ^ smaller than the ? and a little narrower, and the 

 last ventral segment slightly shorter. 



Length 3*5-5 mm., breadth l'6-2"25 mm. 



S. Khodesia : Buluwayo, xii. 1903 (G. A. K. M.). 



Very similar in appearance to P. (^Strophosomus) convexi- 

 collis, Fhs., but in that species there is a median furrow on 

 the pronotum and at the apex of the rostrum. 



So far as is known at present, Southern Rhodesia appears 

 to be the northern limit of the genns I'rotostrophus. The 

 present species was the only one met with at Buluwayo, and 

 P. mucronaiiis was the only species found at Salisi)ury 

 during many years' collecting. Further south the species 

 are numerous, but I have seen none from the western 

 districts of the Cape Province. 



Protostrophus carlnirostris, sp. n. 



? . Colour black, densely clothed with small, almost 

 round scales, slightly overlapping in parts, those on the 

 pronotum being distinctly larger than those on the elytra. 

 Sealing on head ami rostnuu grey, with the costre l)rownish ; 

 pronotum giey, with a l)r()ad meilian brown stripe ; elytra 

 mottled wltli fawn, grcv, imd brown, interval 1 entirely fawn, 



