416 On new Species of South- African Carculionidce. 



Ilipporrldnus oaxus, sp. n. 



Long. 23-24, lat. 8^-9 milllm. 



Head convex, bare, punctuation close but faint on vertex, 

 deeper and more scattered in front; forehead rather retuse, 

 with two faint rounded impressions ; anteocular furrows 

 distinct. Rostrum cut off from head by a (ieep dorsal incision, 

 almost as long as head and thorax, distinctly curved, sub- 

 parallel from base to beyond middle, then gradually dilated 

 to apex. Upper surface convex and without central furrow 

 or carina in basal half, shallowly excavate towards apex, the 

 basal part smooth shiny and with fine sparse punctuation, the 

 punctures much closer and deeper near apex ; lateral sulci 

 strong and deep, the intervening carina rather narrow and 

 undulating, the lower pair longer, the upper pair scarcely 

 uniting at base ; scrobes lateral, parallel with sulci ; inferior 

 basal furrow very broad and deep. Antennce with scape just 

 reaching eye ; second joint of funicle longer than the first in 

 male, subequal in female. Prothorax rather broader than 

 long, apex about as broad as base, which is equal to the 

 length in female, but narrower in male, sides distinctly 

 rounded, broadest about middle, ocular lobes strongly de- 

 veloped. Upper surface slightly convex, fairly closely set 

 with large elevated rounded tubercles bearing depressed setae, 

 central furrow narrow and without a carina ; no scaling. 

 Elytra oblongo-ovate, shoulders rounded, but more prominent 

 in female, sides slightly rounded, broadest before middle, 

 apices slightly and bluntly projecting in male, with sharp 

 parallel ])rocesses in female 1 millim. long. Upper surface 

 convex, the dorsal strias simply punctate, the outer ones granu- 

 late, the intervals not equally prominent : interval 1 quite 

 smooth to near declivity, but with strong granules from 

 there to apex ; interval 2 quite smooth throughout ; 3, 5, 

 and 7 with tubercles strongly depressed to beyond middle, 

 then sharply conical, those on 3 being especially prominent 

 and continued right on to the apical processes in both 

 sexes ; intervals 4 and 6 with rows of depressed tubercles 

 ceasing beyond middle ; tubercles almost entirely devoid 

 of seta3, the elytra bare and with a strong dull bronze 

 reflexion. Legs &\\mY, tibia? and tarsi setose; femora finely 

 punctured at base, impunctate in middle, and very coarsely 

 punctured at apex; the posterior and anterior tibia strongly 

 curved in male, but especially the former; joints 2 and 3 of 

 posterior tarsi subequal, the first a little longer. 



Cape Colony. 



This species is certainly a very close ally of //. verrucosus^ 



