Species of South- African Curculionidye. 441 



dilated. Upper surface convex, with a deep narrow central 

 furrow throughout having a broad and coarsely punctured 

 costa on either side ; both pairs of lateral furrows are deep 

 and distinct, being of equal length; the intervening carina is 

 narrow and impuuctate ; thj upper sulci alone meet at the 

 base, which is not elevated; the scrobes are quite lateral, 

 and almost parallel to the sulci ; the interior basal furrow id 

 strongly developed. Antenme black, setose; scape just 

 reaching eye; the two basal joints of funicle subequal. 

 Protliorax nearly as long as broad, the length equal to the 

 width at base, apex much narrower, sides very little rounded, 

 slightly diverging from base to near apex, then rapidly 

 narrowing, broadest well before middle. Upper surface 

 convex, closely set with large rounded shiny granules, 

 leaving a very narrow central stria without any carina; 

 granules without sette ; scaling almo:!t absent; ocular lobes 

 strongly developed. Elijtra short ovate, shoulders prominent 

 and almost rectangular, sides strongly rounded, broadest 

 about middle, apical processes short and blunt in female. 

 Upper surface convex, with no distinct striation, the whole 

 surface being equally covered with even and regular rows of 

 rounded granules, except for a tubercular prominence on the 

 declivity of the third interval (as in albicinctas^ Gyl.) and a 

 much lower elongate one on the declivity of interval 5; 

 a few isolated white scales are scattered about the surface, 

 but they are more numerous near the margins. Legs black, 

 with scattered white scales and black setaj ; the tubercles on 

 the inner edges of tibias large and tooth-like; posterior tarsi 

 setose, the three basal joints subequal. 

 South Afiuca {Sir A. Smith). 



A very distinct species allied to corpulentus, Gyl., from 

 which it may be distinguished at once by the presence of the 

 tubercular prominences on the declivity and the absence of a 

 central carina on the rostrum. On account of these promi- 

 nences it also bears some resemblance to albicinctus, Gyl. ; 

 but the granulation is much tiuer than in that species, the 

 shoulders are not produced forwards, and the rostrnai has no 

 'central carina. 



Hipporrhinus criniger, sp. n. 



Long. IG, lat. 6 ( (? ), 7 (?) millira. 



Head very convex ; punctuation on vertex closer but 

 shallow, deeper and more scattered in front ; forehead retuse, 

 with a more or less distinct central impression ; aateocular 

 furrows deep and comj)lete. Rostrum cut off from head by a 

 deep dorsal incision, about as long as prothorax only^ stout. 



