24 MR. G, A. K. MARSHALL ON COLEOPTERA [Jan. 19, 



veiy spaise pale scaling and seta^, forming a, pale I'ing near apex 

 of femora ; posterior tarsi broad, spongy, 3rd joint a little broader 

 than the other two, 2nd and 3rd subequal, 1st rather longer. 



Cape Colony : Uitenhage (^Rev. J, A. O'JS^eil), Fi'aserbnrg 

 {JE. G. Alston). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum, 



3. H. VERRUCOSUS L, 



Curculio verrucosus L. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 60 (1764); 01. Ent. 

 V. 83, p. 387, t. 10. f. 125, $ (1807); Herbst, Col. vi. p. 308, 

 t. 84. f. 5, c? (1795). 



H. verrucosus Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 481 (1833). 



Long. 21-25, lat. 8|-10 mm. 



Head convex, shagreened and with spai'se scaling on vertex, 

 forehead distinctly but dispersely punctured and with a central 

 fovea or short stria ; anteocular furrows indistinct. jRostrtmn 

 shorter than prothorax, cut off from head by a deep basal incision, 

 thick, strongly cui"ved and gradually dilated to apex. Upper 

 surface with a deep central furrow, nai-row at base and dilating 

 anterioi'ly, deeply and sometimes rugosely punctured ; latei'al 

 sulci deep, the upper pair uniting at base and much longer than 

 the lower ; scrobes broad and deep, entirely lateral ; infei'ior 

 basal furrow very deep. Antennae with scape reaching eyes; the 

 tAvo basal joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax rather broader 

 than long, apex narrower than base, sides rounded, broadest 

 about middle, dorsal anterior mai-gin slightly convex, ocular lobes 

 well developed. Upper surface convex, closely but irregularly set 

 with large flattened tubercles, leaving a distinct central f urroAv 

 containing a very faint carina ; tubei'cles black, bare, each with a 

 large puncture but no seta, the interstices normally greenish 

 bronze with sparse pale depressed setae. Elytra elongato-ovate, 

 acuminate apically, shorilders pi'ominent, sides ampliated, broadest 

 before middle, apical processes sti-ongly tuberculate, short and 

 rounded in c5' , elongate, thick and subconical in $ . Upper 

 surface convex, with rows of remote shallow punctures separated 

 by small granules ; intervals 3, 5, and 7 with complete rows of 

 depressed, elongate and catenulate tubei-cles which become conical 

 and separated close to apex ; intervals 1 and 6 with similar but 

 much less complete rows ; 2 and 4 quite smooth ; apices of tubercles 

 bare, black, only a few of them with short setse ; the interstices 

 devoid of scaling, black with a strong bronze or greenish-bi-onze 

 lustre. Legs with sjDarse setse, the posterior tibite very sti-ongly 

 curved in S only ; posterior tarsi with the joints of the same 

 width, 2nd and 3rd subequal, 1st rather longer. 



Cape Colony : Ca.pe Town, Stellenbosch {L. Phnngitey). 



Of this striking and aberrant species Mr. Peringuey notes that 

 it is not uncommon about the Cape and may be met crawling 

 slowly along the ground. He has found it on heath plants and 

 also on the branches of the Sugai- Bush (Frotea grandiflora) 

 and Silver Tree {Leucadendron argenle^im). 



