Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of Curculionidte. 595 



rostro supra modice excavato; scapo crassiuscnlo, apice hand 

 crassiore. Long. 2f lin. 

 Hab. Delagoa Bay. 



Closely covered Avith fawn-coloured scales, varied with dark 

 spots, which on the elytra appear as two ill-defined bands; 

 rostrum with a shallow groove above ; antenufe reaching to the 

 apex of the elytra, the scape stout, not enlarged at the apex, 

 attaining to the base of the elytra; prothorax short, nearly twice 

 as broad as long, with few punctures, and a slightly raised line 

 in the middle; elytra a little longer than broad, very convex, 

 striate, the strife limited to very narrow lines which do not 

 appear to be punctured, the interstices rather broad and convex; 

 legs with numerous setiferous scales; two basal joints of the 

 tarsi rather narrow. 



Diethicus tenuicornis. 



D. dense cerviuo-squamulosus, fusco maculatim subvariegatus; 

 rostro supra magis sulcato, scapo tenuato, apice sat subito incras- 

 sato. Long. 2f lin. 



Hab. Natal. 



Closely resembling the preceding, but with more indefinite 

 and paler spots, the rostrum narrower, the ridge on each side 

 more marked, and inclosing a longer and deeper groove between 

 them ; the scape of the antennas very much more attenuated 

 with the ordinary dilatation of the apex confined to the extreme 

 point, and the prothorax more nearly equal in length and 

 breadth. 



Caput et rostrum lata, hoc breve, a fronte separatum, margine 

 externa angulatum; scro6(J5 laterales, arcuatse. Oc!?// prominuli. 

 Antennce breviusculas; scapus curvatus, apicem versus dilatatus, 

 extus dente parvulo instructus; funiculus tenuatus; clava ovata 

 acuminata. Prothorax brevis, baud lobatus. Scutellum nul- 

 lum. Elytra ampla, exhumerata. Pedes breves, tarsi lati, 

 imgues basi conuati. Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis 

 longitudiue sequalibus. 



This genus belongs to Lacordaire's " groupe iii Oosoniides " of 

 the Otiorhynchinre. From the many genera of that group it is 



