neio Curculioniclae//o??2 South Africa. 151 



furrow being interrupted in the niiddle by a low transverse 

 ridge ; the clothing bke that on the liead. Scutellum small, 

 densely covered with pale overlapping scales. Elytra 

 oblong, the shoulders obtusely prominent and with a similar 

 rounded projection below and behind them, the apices 

 separately pointed ; interval 1 not elevated, rather narrow, 

 but wider at the top of the declivity, and there bearing a 

 common bifid tubercle projecting horizontally backwards; 

 the first two striae geminate, the punctures quadrate and 

 sometimes transversely confluent ; interval 3 forming a 

 narrow undulating carina, with a broad, inwardly hooked 

 callus at the base, and two elevations at the middle, that at 

 the top of the declivity being the larger and forming a 

 sharp backwardly-pointed tubercle ; on the declivity this 

 interval is not carinate, but at its apical junction with 

 interval 9 there is a prominent conical tubercle ; between 

 the basal callus on interval 3 and the humeral prominence 

 is a broad basal excavation ; strise 3 and 4 geminate and 

 rather irregular; interval 5 with an elevation just behind 

 the basal excavation, another about the middle, one or two 

 granules behind the middle, and with a large conical tubercle 

 (the largest of all) on the declivity ; interval 7 forming a low 

 undulating or denticulate carina ; the lateral intervals plane; 

 some of the dorsal elevations form two oblique tuberculate 

 ridges, one running from the posthumeral elevation to 

 behind the middle on interval 3, and the other (less distinct) 

 nearer the base; the scales concave and densely over- 

 lapping ; the setae stout, short, and recumbent, being much 

 more numerous on tlie elevated areas. 



Length 3*6-5 mm., breadth l"6-2'4 mm. 



Cape Province : Willowmore (Dr. H. Brauns — type) ; 

 Kimberley, ix. 1905 (G. A. K. M.). Obange Free State : 

 Bothaville (Dr. Brauns). 



Described from forty-three specimens. 



Gronops braunsi, sp. n. 



(J 2 . Integument black, densely covered throughout with 

 unicolorous overlapping earth-brown scaling. 



Very similar to, though smaller than, the preceding 

 species, and differing in the following particulars : — 



Head with the scales on the vertex Hat and not concave ; 

 the supraocular ridges not vertically truncate behind, but 

 sloping. Rostrum markedly broader in proportion to its 

 length. Pruthora.r broadest in front of the middle, and its 

 sides there strongly rounded, but not angularly dilated ; the 



