222 Mr. L. P^ringuey on neio Coleoptera. 



prothorace medio denudato ; elytris vitta sublata prope suturam 

 posita in singulo ornatis. 

 Long. 14, lat. 6 mm. 



Shape and size of Gr. adamantinusj Paring. ; prothorax 

 much narrower and cordiform, as in G. Iwibatus, denuded in 

 the middle ; the elytra are also narrower near the base, 

 covered with an ashy brown villosity, and have each a 

 moderately broad black band a little distant from the suture, 

 reaching nearly to the apex but not the base; sides of the abdo- 

 men and underside of thorax covered with short white hairs ; 

 legs brown. 



One example from Angola. 



Khynchophora. 



Brachycerus maculicolUs. 



Ovatus, niger, griseo-squamosus ; rostro apice dilatato, basi sub- 

 tuberculato, a capite disjuncto ; prothorace granulate, utrinque 

 acute spinoso, medio antice canaliculate, maculis quatuor ochraceis 

 notato ; elytris crebre granulatis, tuberculis majoribus duplici 

 eerie in singulo instructis. 



Long. 20-26, lat. 10-16 mm. 



Black, covered with a greyish pubescence. Rostrum 

 moderately long, depressed, scrobiculated, and with two small 

 tubercles on each side of the apex, separated from the head by 

 a transverse groove ; prothorax covered with depressed setige- 

 rous warts, produced in an acute spine on each side, having a 

 deep impression with raised smooth walls on the anterior 

 part and four thick, ochraceous, squamose patches, one on 

 each side of the fore part of the disk and two on the posterior 

 part ; the basal part is also squamose ; elytra ovate, convex, 

 covered with closely set, comparatively large granules, and 

 each with two rows of larger, rounded, slightly setigerous 

 tubercles, somewhat acute posteriorly ; the wing-cases have 

 here and there a few irregular white scales. Underside black, 

 squamose, with two round ochraceous spots on the sides 

 of the abdomen, also on the segments ; apex of femora annu- 

 lated with white; tibiae tomentose, brown. 



One example from Natal. I have received this insect also 

 from Delagoa Bay and Upper Daraaraland. It is allied to 

 B. lubrusca and B. natalensis. 



Brachycerus hrachyceropsides. 



Elongatus, niger, terreno-squamosus ; rostro elongate, prothorace 

 valde ampliato, supra subdeplanato ; elytris rugosis, angustis, ad 



