Species of South- African CurculIonidi\3. 413 



base to insertion of antennse, with punctures and yellow- 

 scaling at the sides, and a broad, smooth, central line 

 throughout ; upper lateral sulci obsolete, the lower ones 

 faint, filled with yellow scaling, and quite hidden from 

 above by the lateral carina ; scrobes directed beneath base 

 of rostrum ; inferior transverse basal furrow absent. An- 

 temice with dense yellow scaling; scape not quite reaching 

 eye ; the two basal joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax 

 broader than long, length equal to width at base, apex 

 narrower, sides strongly rounded, broadest about middle, 

 ocular lobes moderately developed. Upper surface almost 

 plane, sparsely covered with lai-ge flattened tubercle?, leaving 

 a central furrow containing a very short carina and a lateral 

 smooth line on either side ; prosternum and the three dorsal 

 lines covered with yellow scaling, the rest bare. Elytra 

 ovate, shoulders sloping, sides moderately rounded, broadest 

 about middle, apical processes in female long and sharp. 

 Upper surface convex, the stria3 with more or less regular 

 rows of large granules, the intervals unequally tuberculate: 

 interval 1 with elongate depressed tubercles becoming smaller 

 behind and vanishing before apex ; intervals 2, 3, and 5 with 

 closely- set, elongate, depressed tubercles to beyond middle, 

 after which they become sharply conical to apex, those on 

 interval 2 being the most prominent ; intervals 4, 6, and 7 

 with smaller separated tubercles, depressed near base and 

 conical towards apex ; tubercles and granules quite bare and 

 without setEe, the interstices with small patches of dense 

 yellow scales, forming more or less regular rows of spots 

 along the intervals. Legs with dense yellow scaling varie- 

 gated with numerous bare black spots ; posterior tarsi broad, 

 spongy beneath, the joints subequal in length and breadth. 



Natal {teste Jekel : more probably Cape Colony). 



I have seen only the unique type of this species in the 

 British Museum. It is most nearly allied to nivosus, Sparrm. 

 but also bears some resemblance to insignisj Fahr. From 

 both these species it may be distinguished owing to the upper 

 surface of the rostrum having its edges sharply carinate right 

 up to the base, but they are not raised into a sharp angle in 

 front, as is the case with nivosus. This latter insect differs 

 further in the presence on the rostrum of the inferior trans- 

 verse basal furrow, and in the complete absence of tubercles 

 on intervals 4 and 6 of the elytra. However, maculatus 

 agrees with nivosics, and differs from insignis, in havin"- the 

 tubercles on interval 2 more prominent than those on 3. 



