412 m. G. A. K. Marshall on nero 



narrow, central carina, and on each side of it a broad, smooth, 

 strongly raised costa, the costae uniting at apex so as to form 

 an elongate horseshoe, the ends of which are sometimes inter- 

 rupted near the base ; outside the costa is a broad smooth 

 space followed by a lateral row of small closely-set single 

 tubercles, below which is a curved row of three larger tubercles 

 forming the most prominent part of the lateral dilatation ; 

 tubercles and costse black and shiny, interstices with brown 

 scaling. Elytra ovate, shoulders sloping, sides moderately 

 rounded, broadest rather before middle, apical processes in 

 female very short but sharp. Upper surface convex, with 

 rows of fovese, those in adjoining rows often merging so as to 

 give the elytra the appearance of being strongly wrinkled 

 transversely : intervals 1, 4, and 6 entirely without tubercles ; 

 interval 2 with a short apical row of four or five sharply 

 conical tubercles ; interval 3 with a row of five or six larger 

 subconical tubercles ceasing behind middle ; intervals 5 and 

 7 with complete rows of conical tubercles, those on the former 

 much larger and sharper near apex ; tubercles black, shiny, 

 and occasionally with short depressed apical setce, interstices 

 ■with uniform brown scaling. Legs with sparse pale scaling, 

 forming a denser ring at apex of femora ; posterior tarsi 

 narrow, setose, the three basal joints of same width, second 

 and third subequal, first longer. 



Cape Colony. 



I liave seen only three examples of this striking species : 

 two in the British Museum and one at Stockholm. The 

 peculiar structure of the thorax will differentiate it from every 

 other species in the genus, the nearest approach to it being 

 found in such species as canalicidatus, Mshl., and JictiHs, Mshl. 

 But the sculpturing of the elytra is, however, very different 

 from that in those species, being rather of the type found in 

 ferus, Gyl., and its allies. 



Ilipjwrrhinus maculatus, sp. n. 



Long. 26, lat. 11 millim. 



Bead convex, closely shagreened on vertex, punctured in 

 front, with a broad band of elongate yellow scales across fore- 

 head and running down in front of eye ; forehead with a deep 

 fovea near base of rostrum; anteocular furrows deep and 

 complete, converging dorsally. Rostrum not incised at base 

 as long as head and prothorax, in profile the upper line is' 

 straight from base to near insertion of the antenna?, then 

 sharply deflected. Upper surface broadly but very shallowly 

 excavate throughout, with its edges strongly carinate from 



