Sjiecies of South- African CurculioniJai. 451 



wltli scattered pale scaling, forming a denser ring at apex of 

 femora ; posterior tarsi witii the three basal joints of about 

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



Cape Colony. 



Tlie nearly allied talpx, Fa'ir., and viciaus, Mshl., differ 

 in the absence of plication on the forehead, in the finer 

 ])unctaation of the strioe, and in the smaller and much more 

 numerjus granules (and therefore setre) on the elytra. 



Ilipporrhinus 13raunsi\ sp. n. 



Long. 11, lat. 5 millim. 



Head convex on vertex, forehead flattened and with a deep 

 impression on each side ; punctuation close and regular, but 

 mostly hidden by fulvous scaling ; anteocular furrows deep, 

 convergent above and only separated by a narrow costa. 

 Rostrum not incised at base, nearly as long as head and pro- 

 thorax, deflected and slightly curved. Upper surface with a 

 broad and distinct central furrow throughout, containing no 

 carina, but with its edges carinate and bearing a regular row 

 of depressed pale set?e ; punctuation hidden by uniform dense 

 brown scaling; lateral sulci broad and deep, subequal, the 

 upper pair alone meeting at base, which is much raised above 

 the level of forehead ; scrobes directed to beneath base of 

 rostrum ; inferior basal furrow deep. AntenncB with scape 

 not reaching eye ; joints 1 and 2 of funicle subequal. 

 Prothorax a trifle broader than long, apex and base of equal 

 width, sides strongly rounded, broadest before middle, ocular 

 lobes -well developed. Upper surface convex, with small 

 rounded widely separated tubercles leaving a broad but 

 shallow central furrow containing a distinct carina ; tubercles 

 black and shiny, with a depressed pale apical seta ; interstices 

 with dense brown squamosity. Elytra ovate, shoulders 

 rounded, sides very little dilated, broadest before middle, 

 apical processes (in female only) very small, tuberculiform, 

 and contiguous. Upper surface convex, with regular rows of 

 large reticulate fovese without intervening granules : interval 

 1 without granules but with a single row of depressed set^G; 

 interval 2 with only a short apical row of three or four very 

 small tubercles, that at the summit of declivity much larger 

 than the rest; interval 3 with a costa to beyond middle and 

 continued to apex in the form of small separate tubercles, the 

 largest being at the top of the declivity (in a varietal form 

 this costa is replaced by a row of small separated tubercles) ; 

 intervals 4 and 6 smooth or with a few isolated tubercles ; 

 5 and 7 with complete rows of small conical remote tubercles; 



