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bare carina running from the antennae more than halfway to the 

 eye, there being no trace of this in hirta ; the elytra also have 

 their bases distinctly marginate and at the external angle 

 there is a slight projection which just overlaps the base of the 

 prothorax, both these chai'acters being absent in hirta ; finally, 

 the antennae are slightly more elongate, and the third joint of 

 the funicle is distinctly longer than the fourth. 



Orange Colony : Bothaville [Dr. H. Brauns). Cape Colony :. 

 Port Ehzabeth {Dr. H. Brauns). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Dr. Brauns has kindly sent me a series of eleven specimens, in 

 which the above-mentioned characters are quite constant. 



HiPPORRHINUS MENDICUS, sp. nov. 



Long. 15, lat. 6-i-7| mm. 



Head coarsely rugose and with scattered scaling ; forehead 

 almost plane, with a low central carina ; anteocular fiu-rows 

 present. Rostrimi separated from head by a transverse incision, 

 moderately stout, curved and slightl}'- dilated at apex ; uppei- 

 surface with a broad and distinct central furrow, the adjoining 

 costfe coarsely punctured ; upper lateral sulci broad and deep, 

 uniting at base, the lower pair of equal length, but narrower, 

 shallower, and not uniting ; scrobes lateral, deep and straight ; 

 inferior basal furrow broad and deep. Antennce with the scape 

 scarcely reaching eye, the two basal joints of the funicle subequal. 

 Prothorax as long as broad, apex narrower than base, sides 

 moderately rounded, broadest about middle, apical margin dis- 

 tinctly rounded dorsally ; ocular lobes well developed ; upper 

 surface convex, closely and evenly set with large conical granules, 

 leaving a narrow but distinct central fni'row containing no carixaa ; 

 granules bax-e, each with a short depressed dark seta, the inter- 

 stices with dense brownish-grey scaling. Elytra oblongo-ovate, 

 much broader in the $ , broader than the prothorax at base 

 (especially in 2 ), the shoulders obtusely prominent ; sides 

 m.oderately rounded, broadest about middle, apical processes small 

 and conical in both sexes ; upper surface convex, with broad very 

 shallow sulci containing rows of very small granules, the intervals 

 wdth rows of more closely-set granviles, those on intervals 3, 5, and 

 7 being much larger and more elevated, especially towards apex ; 

 the apices of the granules bare, the rest of the surface being 

 densely covered with round greyish-brown scales. Legs notably 

 short in $ , much longer and thicker in the S ; all the tibife 

 curved (more strongly so in J ) and coarsely dentate ; posterior 

 tarsi with the three basal joints subequal in length and breadth. 



Cape Colony : Touw's River {R. M. Lightfoot). 



Types, c5' in the South African Museum, 5 in the British 

 Museum. 



Allied to H. gravidus Mshl., but in that species the upper 

 lateral sulci of the rostrum do not unite at the base, and the basal 

 inferior furrow is much shallower ; the shoulders of the elytra 



