Species of South-African Curculionicla3. 405 



IlipporrMnus nestor, sp. n. 



Long. (excl. apical spines) 20 millim., lat. 8 millim., apical 

 spines 2 millim. 



Head convex, with deep scattered punctures and large white 

 scales ; forehead vvitli a short central stria ; anteocular furrows 

 faint, the lower half obsolete. Rostrum not incised at base, 

 as long as head and prothorax, gently curved. Upper surface 

 convex in basal half and broadly excavate near apex, dis- 

 tinctly punctured, and with a broad smooth central line; 

 lateral sulci not meeting at base, broad and deep, separated 

 by a narrow carina, and filled with large white scales ; scrobes 

 running beneath base of rostrum ; inferior basal furrow 

 shallow. Antennce with scape not nearly reaching eye; the 

 two basal joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax slightly 

 transverse, the length about equal to the width at base, which 

 is broader than apex, sides not much rounded, broadest about 

 middle, ocular lobes strongly developed. Upper surface con- 

 vex, with distant rounded tubercles, which are flattened and 

 arranged in more or less regular rows on disk, smaller more 

 elevated and irregular laterally ; central furrow very broad 

 and containing a short faint carina ; apices of tubercles black, 

 shiny, and with very short depressed set«, interstices with 

 dense white scaling. Elytra oblongo-ovate, sides scarcely 

 rounded, broadest before middle, shoulders rounded, apical 

 processes very long and sharp. Upper surface convex, stria? 

 with regular rows of small granules, the alternate intervals 

 more prominent : intervals 1, 4, and 6 entirely devoid of 

 tubercles; interval 2 with only a single very large and sharp 

 tubercle on the summit of the declivity ; interval 3 with three 

 large, smooth, catenulate tubercles at base, thence with an 

 irregular row of small rounded tubercles to beyond middle, 

 where they become larger and sharply conical, the largest being 

 on the summit of the declivity ; this tubercle is of the same 

 size as, and adjoins, that on interval 2, so as to form a con- 

 spicuous transverse row of four large tubercles ; interval 5 

 with a very large, rounded, boss-like tubercle at base, followed 

 by two similar but much smaller ones, then five or six small 

 granular tube-rcles, and finally two or three larger conical ones 

 beyond middle; interval 7 with a complete row of small, 

 closely-set, conical tubercles. Legs with dense, even, white 

 scaling; posterior tarsi with the three basal joints of about 

 the same width, second and third subequal, first longer. 



Cape Colony. 



This very distinct insect falls into a small group with 

 nodidosusy F., and occidentalism Mshl., on account of the large 



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