452 Mr. G. A. K. Marshall on new 



scaling dense, uniform brown; tubercles bare at apex, each 

 with a thick whitish depressed seta. Legs thin, densely 

 covered with brown scaling and with scattered white setae; 

 posterior tarsi narrow, tlie three basal joints of equal width, 

 second and third equal, first rather longer. 



Orange Colony : Bothaville {Dr. 11. Brauns). 



I owe all my examples of this species to the kindness of 

 my friend Dr. Brauns. The only insect with which it can 

 be confused is quadrinodisj Fahr., in wliich, however, the 

 costa on interval 3 of the elytra terminates abruptly at the 

 declivity, without any apical tubercles, and interval 7 is 

 simply carinate and not tuberculate. 



Ilipporrlilnus vicinus, sp. n. 



Long. 10, lat. 5 millim. 



Head densely covered with brown scaling, convex, forehead 

 without fovea or carina ; anteocular furrows absent. Bos- 

 trum not incised at base, short and thick, shorter than the 

 prothorax alone, deflected but scarcely curved, a little more 

 slender in male than in Jemale. U[)per surface with a stout 

 basal tubercle which has its sides subparallel and its apex 

 sharply bifurcated ; anterior portion almost plane, rugosely 

 punctured, and witii a faint carina running from the middle 

 back to the apex of tubercle; lateral sulci indistinct, the 

 upper pair uniting at base; scrobes shallow, lateral, and 

 oblique ; inferior basal I'urrow very deep. Antenme with 

 scape reaching to about middle of eye ; joints 1 and 2 of 

 funicle subequal. Prothorax rather transverse, apex about 

 as wide as base, sides strongly rounded, broadest about middle, 

 ocular lobes very slight. Upper surface convex, closely set 

 with setigerous granules, central furrow almost obsolete ; 

 granules black and shiny, interstices with brown scaling, 

 except for three pale longitudinal lines. Elytra short ovate, 

 broadest before middle, shoulders sloping, apex bluntly 

 rounded in male, subacuminate in female, apical processes 

 absent. Upper surface distinctly sulcate, sulci with rows of 

 ocellated punctures, without intervening granules, and often 

 hidden by the scaling; intervals finely carinate, especially 3, 

 5, and 7, which are rather higher than the others ; inteivals 

 1 and 2 with no granules but with regular rows of recumbent 

 setse; the other intervals have rows of minute setigerous 

 granules which disappear near apex and are there replaced by 

 depressed setce ; scaling dense, variegated brown and grey, 

 granules black and shiny. Legs with thin pale scaling and 

 without a iemoral ring ; posterior tarsi broad, tirst joint longer 



