1906.] NEW AFRICAN CURCULIONID^. 915 



angulated fuiTOW which is continued to the margin, compava- 

 tively elongate, strongly narrowed frora base to apex, with its 

 sides almost straight ; upper sitrf'ace plane, depressed in the 

 centre and with three faint carina? which are often more or less 

 obsolete. Antennce dark rufescent, with the club fuscous ; the 

 two basal joints of the funicle subequal. Protliorax strongly 

 ti'ansverse, twice as broad as long, sides almost straight, broadest 

 at base ; apex deejily emarginate, much narrower than the base 

 which is rounded in the middle and deeply sinuate on each side 

 close to the exterior angles, these angles are very shai'p and 

 project well beyond the base of the elytra ; upper surface gently 

 convex, with tine confluent punctuation throughout which is 

 hidden by the dense scaling, and with no trace of any central 

 carina. Elytra oblongo-ovate, jointly and deeply emarginate at 

 base, the basal angles sharp, prominent and subrectangular, the 

 sides straight from the basal angle to about middle, thence 

 roundly narrowed to apex ; upper surface moderately convex 

 in $ , subdepressed and less steeply declivous posteriorly in S , 

 in which sex also the lateral margins are more shai'ply inflexed, 

 strife with rows of shallow punctures ; the intervals smooth and 

 impunctate, almost plane in c? 5 slightly convex in $ . Legs 

 thick, similar in the two sexes ; anterior tibise straight, den- 

 ticulate internally and with the apical angle very strongly 

 produced inwardly. 



Orange Colony : Bothaville {Br. Rans Brauns). 



Types, $ in the British Museum, S in the Oxfoi-d Museum. 



Nearly allied to the aberrant S. hrevicollis Fahr., with which it 

 quite agrees in general facies. That species however is covered 

 with distinct erect sette, the protliorax has a short central carina, 

 and the legs are a good deal more slender. 



Platycopes alpredensis, sp. nov. 



Long. 4f-5|, lat. 3-34 mm. 



Dark piceous brown, with uniformly dense grey or ochreous- 

 grey scaling, the elytra sometimes variegated with bi-own 

 markings. 



Head convex on vertex, flattened on forehead, finely and 

 longitudinally aciculate, without any superciliary prominence. 

 Rostrum separated from head by an angulate impression, the 

 lateral carinas less evident towards the base. Antennce with the 

 scape strongly dilated, its posterior margin sharjjly angulate not 

 far from apex, funicle with joint 2 much longer than 1, and 7 

 longer than 6. Protliorax twice as broad as long, its base fitting 

 closely to the elytra in both sexes ; sides rounded, broadest neai- 

 base, strongly constricted near apex, and with a transverse 

 impressed line ; upper surface convex, closely gi-anulate except 

 along the anterior margin. Elytra suborbicular, jointly sinuate 

 at base in both sexes, moderately convex, the antero-posterior 

 curvature comparatively low, slightly greater in the 5 , basal 

 angle sliarjp, the sides obliquely aropliated from there to the 



