944 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL OX [DeC. 11, 



broadest at shoulders and very gradually nari'owed posterioi-ly ; 

 upper surface slightly convex, with regular rows of small but 

 distinct punctures, the intervals broad, j)lane, and inipunctate ; 

 colour dark blue, shining. Legs dark blue, finely punctured. 



Natal: Malvern (C. N. Barker). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Its shining blue colour will at once distinguish this insect from 

 the only other described South African sjDecies, E. inorio Boh., 

 which is of a bronze-black colour and not nearly so shiny ; the 

 thorax is much more coarsely punctured, and the elytra have 

 deep coarsely punctured striae, the intervals being narrower and 

 more convex. E. se'mh-iolacea Fst. (Deut. ent. Zeit. 1^95, p. 234, 

 note) has the thorax less shiny and more strongly punctured ; 

 the intervals on the elytra are also much narrower and more 

 convex. 



Balaninijs nubifer, sp. nov. 



Long. 6-7|-, lat. 3-3|- mm. Rostrum J 24, $ 6 mm. 



Colour dark ferruginous brown, densely but vaguely mottled 

 with dark brown, light brown, and white scales. 



Read globose, with dense greyish-brown scaling ; eyes mode- 

 I'ate, a little larger in the ^ . Rostruin slender, dark brown, 

 bare ; in <S subpoi'rect and coarsely strigoso-punctate up to the 

 insertion of antennfe, apical portion curved, smooth, and finely 

 but distinctly punctured ; in 5 , porrect for two-thirds its length, 

 then gently curved, distinctly punctured as far as the antennae, 

 anterior portion finely punctate at the sides only. Aniennce 

 brown, with the scape paler, inserted a little beyond middle in S 

 and a little behind middle in $ ; terminal joints of funicle slightly 

 longer than bioad, 7 conical, longer and broader than 6 ; club 

 shortly ovate, the two basal joints transverse and transversely 

 truncate, the second quadrate. Prothorax transverse, sides 

 rounded, broadest behind middle, scarcely narrowed towards base, 

 strongly narrowed anteriorly ; upper surface finely coriaceoiTS and 

 without any carina ; scaling dense, variegated brown, white, and 

 grey above and laterally ; prosternum uniform greyish white. 

 Elytra ovate, bi'oadest at shoulders, which are roundly pi-ominent ; 

 sides scarcely rounded, rapidly narrowed to apex, especiall}^ in S ', 

 upper surface convex, with fine but distinctly punctured striae, in- 

 tervals plane and very finely coriaceous ; scaling dense, irregularly 

 variegated with dark brown, yellowish brown, and white ; under- 

 parts uniform greyish white. Legs ferruginous brown, with 

 dense pale scaling ; all femora armed with a stout simple tooth, 

 tibiae strongly uncinate. 



Mashonalakd : Salisbury {G-. A. K. M.). 



Types, $ in British Museum, S in Oxford Museum. 



Balaninus ficorum, sp. nov. (Plate LXYII. fig. 5.) 



Long. 4| -5, lat. 2-25- mm. Rostrum (in a straight line from 

 base to apex) S 2-21 5 3|__4 i^^ni. 



