1906.] NEW AFRICAN CURCULIONICE. 921 



looking insect, being of a rich crimson-brown colour with large 

 jiatches of pure white. 



Catamoxus tristis, sp. nov. 



Long., d 7|-8i, 2 10|; lat., J 3-3^, $ U mm. 



Head almost plane above, transversely wrinkled on vertex ; 

 forehead rugosely punctured and with three distinct furrows, 

 normally hidden by dense brown scaling. Rostr'um longer than 

 head but scarcely as long as prothorax, stout, slightly curved 

 and broadly dilated at apex ; uj)per surface almost plane, closely 

 pvmctured and scaled, with three line carina? of equal height ; 

 scrobes very deep anteriorly, broad and shallow behind, extending 

 to anterior margin of eye. Antennce piceous, with fine pale 

 scaling and short, depressed setfe ; scape just exceeding posterior 

 margin of eye ; second joint of f unicle longer than first. Fro- 

 tho?^ax transverse, apex much narrower than base, sides nub- 

 parallel from base to about middle, then rapidly converging 

 anterioi-ly ; basal margin deeply bisinviate, anterior mar-gin 

 truncate ; upper surface rather convex, closely and rugosely 

 punctured, with a faint central furrow near base only ; colour 

 black or dark feri'uginous, with greyish scaling more or less 

 denuded. Elytra broadest at shoulders and gradually narrowed 

 to apex, shoulders prominent, the base strongly trisinuate ; upper 

 surface with regular stria? containing rows of large deep punc- 

 tures, which are normally hidden by the scaling, the intervals 

 narrow, convex, and coriaceous, appearing much bi-oader when the 

 scaling is not denuded ; colour dark feri-uginous to black, with 

 coarse brownish or greyish scaling (much denuded in the four 

 examples examined) and very short subdepressed setae. Legs 

 black or piceous, rugosely punctured, and with pale scaling and 

 setfe, which conceal the sulcus on the inner edge of the posterior 

 pairs of tibife. 



Mashoxaland : Mtoko's [E. Head), Mazoe {J. ff. Darling). 

 Matabelelaxd : Sebakwe (Z). Dodds). 



Type in the British Museum. 



A near ally of the only other South African species, C. raelan- 

 cholicus Boh. (Natal and Transvaal), from which it difiers in its 

 much more transverse thorax, which has also a much fainter 

 central fur-row ; the elytra are noticeably more slender in both 

 sexes and the shouldei-s more prominent ; the anal abdominal 

 segment in the 5 is much less acute. 



Systates dentipes, sp. nov. (Plate LXYI. fig. 5.) 



6 long. 5|-7i, lat. 14-2f ; $ long. 54-6f, lat. 2f -3. 



Colour bronze-black, with an ill-defined lateral stripe of thin 

 pale scales on thorax and elytra ; upper surface normally bare 

 and shiny, but in a few females it is thinly covered with pale 

 scales ; no trace of setse. 



Head convex, shining, with scattered shallow punctures, which 

 are closer and more confluent on the forehead wdiere there is a 



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