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which are usually abraded at base and on disk, but dense towards 

 sides and apex. Legs with sparse pale pubescence ; posterior 

 tarsi spongy beneath, the 2nd joint slightly narrower than the 

 others, 2nd and 3rd subecjual in length, 1st a little longer. 



Cape Colony. 



Type in the British Museuna. 



In the first section of the genus the only vspecies with setose, as 

 opposed to squamose, elytra are setiferus Gyl., sxdxiralis Mshl., and 

 granulaUts Gyl. The former is at once separated by the uneven 

 intervals on the elytra. FI. granulatus differs from H. suturalis 

 in having the lateral sulci on the rostrum of equal length ; the 

 prothorax is much more ti'ansverse, with the sides more strongly 

 dilated, while the ociilar lobes are almost obsolete and the tubei'cles 

 are more depi-essed and further apart ; on the elytra the sulci are 

 less deep, the granules in them much larger, the intervals all 

 strongly granulate, and the general shape is more elongate. In 

 general facies this species most nearly resembles H. lacunosics 

 Gyl. 



31. H. GRANULATUS Gyl. 



IT. granulatus Gyl. Schh. Gen. Cure. v. p. 792 (1840). 



Long. 15-17, lat, 7-7^ mm. 



Read very convex, strongly punctured, forehead retuse and with 

 a shallow centi'al impression ; eyes surrounded by an impressed 

 ring ; anteocular furrows deep. jRostrum with a very deep dorsal 

 incision at base, scarcely shorter than head and prothorax, very 

 thick and strongly curved. Upper surface with five strong carinse, 

 the central one being the highest and quite smooth, the outer ones 

 strongly punctured on their inner surfaces ; lateral sulci deep, 

 subequal, the upper pair meeting at base, the lower pair rather 

 broader ; scrobes straight, entirely lateral and parallel with the 

 sulci ; inferior basal furrow very deep. Antennce with sparse pale 

 setae ; scape just reaching eye ; the two basal joints of funicle 

 subequal. Prothorax very transverse, apex narrower than base, 

 sides very strongly rounded, broadest about middle,', anterior 

 margin luther concave, ocular lobes slight. Upper surface plane, 

 fairly closely set with low rounded tubercles, leaving a narrow ill- 

 defined central furrow containing a scarcely noticeable carina ; 

 tubercles bare, with depressed pale sette, interstices with thin pale 

 hair-like scaling. Elytra broadly ovate, shoulders roundedly promi- 

 nent, sides slightly rounded, broadest about middle, apical processes 

 in $ cylindrical, short and parallel. Upper surface rather 

 convex, sulcate, sulci with regular rows of small granules ; 

 intervals all similar, each with a single regular row of larger 

 granules of about the same size throughout ; granules bare, with 

 short pale depressed setse, interstices with thin pale hair-like scaling. 

 Legs with sparse pale scaling ; posterior tarsi with the 3rd joint 

 broadest, 2nd and 3rd subequal in length, 1st distinctly longer. 



Cape Colony. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



