378 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on neio 



Head fawn-coloured, with an ill-defined median stripe and a 

 narrow ring round the eyes whitish ; rostrum mainly grey ; 

 prothorax greyisli white with dark mottling on the posterior 

 dorsal area and mainly fawn in front ; elytra with the 

 sutural and lateral margins fawn-coloured, the disk greyish 

 white, Avith darker mottlmg. 



Head with the forehead gently convex longitudinally and 

 almost plane transversel}^, the sculpturing entirely hidden 

 hy the densely packed, deeply cup-like scales ; when these 

 are removed, the forehead is shiny and closely punctate 

 throughout, the punctures on the vertex being confluent and 

 rugose ; the whole head set with sparse stiff erect bristles ; 

 eyes very broadly ovate, obtusely acuminate below, and only 

 slightly convex. Rostrum longer than broad (7:5), the 

 dorsal area gradually narrowed from base to apex, but 

 the width across the genre equal to the basal width ; the 

 dorsum gently convex transversely in the basal half only, 

 the clothing and punctation similar to that of the forehead ; 

 the apical margin trisinuate and asymmetrical, the right 

 lobe being longer than the left. Antennoi rather short and 

 densely squamose ; the funicle with joint 2 about as long as 

 broad, scarcely longer than each of the four succeeding 

 joints and shorter then 7. Prothorax broader than long, 

 widest at the middle, the sides very strongly rounded in 

 the c? J less so in the ? , markedly constricted near the apex, 

 the constriction continued as a shallow furrow across the 

 dorsum, and a similar fuiTow at the base ; the basal margin 

 arcuate in the middle and broader than the apical, which is 

 also arcuate dorsally ; the dorsum closely and coarsely 

 granulate, with a shallow median furrow on the basal lialf ; 

 the scales irregular in shape, concave, and in parts cup-like ; 

 the setse long, coarse, and erect. IScutellum densely squa- 

 mose, elevated. Elytra subcyliudrical in the ^ and much 

 narrower than the prothorax at its widest ; broader in the ? , 

 with the sides more rounded, broadest about the middle and 

 there as wide as or a little wider than the prothorax ; the 

 basal jnargiu jointly sinuate, the external angles not pro- 

 jecting ; the shallow striae with very large round punctures, 

 which are completely covered by tlie scaling but distinctly 

 perceptible through it ; the intervals when bare not broader 

 than the punctures, each wiih a row of long erect setse, the 

 alternate ones slightly broader and higher ; the scales 

 broadly overlapping, with their margins turned up. Legs 

 densely squamose and with long setee ; the front tibise with 

 five teetli on the inner edge, the mid pair with three, and 



