1906.] NEW AFRICAN CURCULIOXTD.E. 935 



and very prominent ; sides not rounded, broadest at base and very 

 gradually narrowed towards apex ; scutellum distinct, prominent, 

 densely squamose ; upper surface convex, with regular strias con- 

 taining rows of deep punctures more or less hidden by the 

 scaling ; the intervals plane, closely set with large rounded scales, 

 which stand almost vertically and thus give the insect a velvety 

 appearance ; each interval has a row of pale depressed setfe ; the 

 colour of the scales is dark brown with a common V-shaped 

 lighter mark behind middle, immediately followed by a broader 

 similar mark of the ground-colour, the apex again being lightei- ; 

 but in the cotype the whole ground-colour is much lighter, and 

 thus only the darker posterior band is noticeable. Legs densely 

 covered with golden-brown scales and with depressed yellow setaj"^; 

 tibife dilated at apex, with a stout spine at the inner angle and a 

 shorter one just above it ; tarsi very broad and short, fourth joint 

 entirely absent. 



Mashonaland : Salisbuiy (6'. A. K. 21.), 



Type in the British Museum. 



Hypsomus parvus, sp. nov. (Plate LXYI. fig. 11.) 



Long. 2|-3, lat. j^-\ mm. 



Headj globose, with dense brown scaling and closely punctured, 

 without impressions or carinEe. Rostrum elongate, as long as the 

 prothorax, cylindrical, gently curved, slightly elevated "at base 

 and separated from the head by a faint impressed line, with close 

 punctuation and dense brown scaling throughout, and without 

 carinse or sulci ; scrobes disappearing rapidty beneath the rostrum 

 and continued to base, but not uniting there. Antemice piceous. 

 scape not reaching the eye ; first joint of funicle thicker and " 

 rather longer than second, the remainder very short, subequal, 

 but gradually Avidening apically. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 subcylindrical, sides almost sti^aight but slightly narrowed 

 anteriorly, basal maigin arcuate, apex slightly lobate, oculai- 

 lobes feebly developed ; upper surface convex, very closely and 

 evenly punctured throughout, with dense brown scaling and a 

 narrow longitudinal Avhite line on each side. Elytra elongate, 

 basal margin jointly sinuate and not broader than the prothorax, 

 the sides rapidly dilated to form a rouuded humeral angle, thence 

 subparallel to beyond middle and rajjidly narrowed to apex, where 

 each elytron is shortly and separately acuminate ; upper surface 

 subdepressed and very gradually declivous posteriorly, with 

 regular and distinctly punctured stride ; the intervals rathei' 

 narrow, scarcely convex and finely coriaceous ; colour piceous, 

 with dense even broAvn scaling, except along the extreme lateral 

 margin, which is greyish Avhite like the whole of the under parts. 

 Legs densely squamose ; first tarsal joint as broad as, but a little 

 longer than, second, third rather broader, deeply bilobate ; claws 

 free. 



Orange Colony: Bothaville {Dr. H. Brauns). 

 Type in the British Museum. 

 Proc. Zool. See- 1 906, No. LXII. 62 



