Species of QmcwWoWx^-M from Africa. 375 



the prouotum deeply wrinkled longitudinally, with a broad 

 median carina and the sides angulated ; joint 2 of the 

 funicle is nearly as long as 1, and 7 is as long as broad, etc. 



Lewops sublineata, sp. n. 



Colour varial)le ; black with dense pale fawn or fawn-grey 

 scaling ; the prothorax usually with two broad dorsal paler 

 stripes ; the elytra sometimes almost unicolorous, but 

 usually variegated with indefinite darker and paler markings, 

 occasionally taking the form of macular stripes. 



Head quite smooth, the close shallow punctation almost 

 entirely hidden by the scaling, the forehead flattened, the 

 setfe slightly raised ; the eyes moderately convex, the 

 posterior margin not raised above the level of the neck. 

 Rostrum nearly as long as its basal width, strongly narrowed 

 in front, with the sides gently sinuate and less perpendicular 

 than usual, so that the genee are more broadly visible from 

 above ; the u[)pcr surface with a rather deep median im- 

 pression in the anterior half, containing a low scale-covered 

 carina ; the upper edge of the scape running well below the 

 eye. Frothorax quite smooth, without any central furrow 

 or carina, the scaling and setae as on the head ; the sides 

 very gently rounded, the apex truncate dorsally and very 

 shal lowly sinuate behind the eyes. Elytra ovate, broadest 

 about the middle, rather sharply acuminate behind, the basal 

 margin jointly sinuate ; the surface quite even, not striate, 

 but with rows of separated punctures, each containing a 

 minute seta and almost concealed by the scaling ; the 

 intervals flat, with irregular rows of apprcssed scale-like 

 setcc, which are so short that usually the space between the 

 apex of one and the base of the next is about as long as 

 a seta. 



Length 4*25 nnn., breadth 2'25 mm. 



Orangk Fri:e State : Liudekwe Drift, xii. 1905 {Harold 

 Fry) ; Modderpoort, 30.x. 19U (type). 



Described from ei;^lit specimens. 



Very closely related to the rather larger L. siibsfriata, 

 Mshl. (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (9) i. 1919, p. 20), but in 

 that species the rostrum is distinctly shorter, less strongly 

 narrowed in front, with its sides straight and more nearly 

 perpendicular, and the dorsal impression is much shallower; 

 the posterior portion of the orliit of the eye is raised above 

 the level <.>[ the neck ; and the sctie on the elytra are much 



