neiv Curculionidee/rom South Africa. 147 



9 is strongly costate near the apex j the femora are rather 

 thinly clothed with sliort recumbent setaj except for a band 

 of scales near the apex, and on the lower surface they have 

 a minute tooth and a row of small granules; the hind tibiae 

 {(^) are much more strongly flattened and for fully half the 

 length from the apex, the lower edge being coarsely denti- 

 culate, the corbel obliquely truncate, and the lamina placed 

 a little above the apical edge and laucet-sbaped. 



Eremttus cerealis, sp. n. 



? . Integument piceous, hidden by dense scaling ; scales 

 small and shiny, closely juxtaposed, but not overlapping. 

 Scales on rostrum greyish white ; head light brown above, 

 greyish white beneath. Prothorax light brown above, with 

 an inwardly ill-defined sinuous dark brown stripe on each 

 side; beyond this an indefinite light brown patch in front 

 (jf the middle, the rest of the lateral and lower surface being 

 whitish. Elytra pale brown on the disk, with small alter- 

 nating dark brown and whitish spots in the striae ; the 

 lateral area beyond stria 7 entirely whitish. Lower surface 

 whitish. 



Head with shallow confluent punctation on the vertex and 

 finely striolate on the forehead (this sculpturing quite 

 hidden by the scaling), the frontal fovea linked up with the 

 rostral furrow ; the eyes nearly flat and rather coarsely 

 facetted, further apart than usual, the distance between 

 them being nearly double the length of one eye. Rostrum 

 slightly longer than its basal width, narrowed from the base 

 to the middle, and subparallel-sided from there to the apex ; 

 the dorsal area without sharply-defined lateral edges, very 

 rapidly narrowed from the base to the anteunne, then widen- 

 ing again slightly, with a deep median furrow from the base 

 to between the antennae ; the apical area with a very broad 

 and deep semicircular impression, which contains no median 

 carina, but bears strong separated punctures, each containing 

 a minute scale, the interspaces being bare ; the epistome with 

 its posterior margin broadly truncate and forming a sharply 

 raised ridge. Antennoi unusually short and stout ; the 

 scape gradually clavate, shortly exceeding the eye, with 

 rather coarse punctures containing small scales and with 

 short recumbent pale setae; the funicle with joints 1 and 2 

 clavate and equal in length and breadth, 3-7 transverse and 

 subequal. Prothorax much broader than long, strongly 

 rounded at the sides, broadest at the middle, with a shallow 

 apical constriction which is continued across the disk ; the 



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