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



parallel to beyond middle, apical processes very small. Upper 

 surface moderately convex, rugulose, with rows of deep fovese; 

 intervals 3, 5, and 7 raised, costate and undulating near base, 

 tuberculate towards apex ; colour black, with scatteied long erect 

 dark sette. Legs thick, pilose and coarsely punctured ; posterior 

 tarsi broad, the joints of about the same width, 2nd and 3rd 

 subequal, 1st rather longer. 



"Cape of Good Hope {Dregey — teste Schonherr. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum, 



I have seen only a single example from Di'ege's collection at 

 Stockholm. The species holds a somewhat intermediate position 

 between the two main divisions of the genus owing to the com- 

 paratively shallow incision which separates the head from the 

 rostrum. This is further emphasised by the absence of the 

 inferior basal furrow on the rosti-um, which is always pi-esent and 

 usually very strongly developed in the species falling within 

 Schbnherr's "Grex'2." 



8. H. CAFFER Thunb. 



C%ircul%o caffer Thunb, Nov. Act. Ups. vii. p. 120 (1815). 



Gurcidio ccdvus Herbst, Col. vii, p. 46, t, 98. f. 4 (1797). 



E. calvus Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 486 (1833). 



II. caffer Gyl, 1, c. p. 487 (1833). 



H. rhamjjhastus Gyl. 1. c. p. 486 (1833); Labr, & Inih. Gen. 

 Cure. ii. no. 35 (1848), 



Long. 14-15, lat. 5|-6 mm. 



Head convex, punctate and with scattered setiform scaling, 

 forehead retuse and with a shallow central impression ; eyes with 

 a deep curved impression along their upper edges ; anteocular 

 furrows deep. Rostrum as long as prothorax, cut ofi' from head 

 by a deep incision, thick, sti'ongly ciu'ved, dilated at apex. Upper 

 surface coarsely punctured, with five strong smooth carinse of 

 about even height ; lateral sulci broad and deep, the upper pair 

 much longer than the lower and uniting at base ; scrobes deep, 

 lateral ; inferior basal furrow very deep, Antennce with scape 

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

 Prothorax a little broader than long, apex and base of equal 

 width, sides rounded, broadest at middle, anterior margin trun- 

 cate, ocular lobes small. Upper surface convex, closely set with 

 small rounded tubercles, leaving a well-marked central furrow- 

 containing no carina ; tubei'cles bare, shining, each with a shoi't 

 depressed seta, the intei'stices with brownish scaling and three 

 distinct white longitudinal lines. Elytra elongato-ovate, narroAver 

 in c? 5 shoulders roundedly prominent, sides slightly ampliated, 

 broadest about middle, apical processes absent. Upper sui'face 

 convex, with i-egular rows of large, ocellated and subreticulate 

 punctures; intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 much more strongly raised 

 than the otheis and showing faint traces of depressed sub- 

 catenulate gi-anules bearing veiy shoit depressed setse ; intervals 

 2, 4, and 6 smooth, narrow and slightly costate, interval 2 with a 



