1904.] OF THE GE^^'US HIPPOKRHINUS. 51 



the apex, sides sti'OBgly ampliated and produced about middle 

 into a stout tubercular spine, dorsal anterior margin convex, 

 ocular lobes well developed. Upper surface somewhat convex, 

 fairly closely set with large rounded tubercles, leaving a deep 

 central furrow containing an abbreviated carina, anterior margin 

 with a low tubercular callus ; tubercles bare, shiny, each with a 

 depressed dark seta, the scaling in the interstices fulvous, except 

 in the central furrow and on the sides of the prosternum, where 

 it is white, ^/^/jtr^oblongo-ovate, shoulders roundedlypi-ominent, 

 sides slightly ampliated, broadest about middle, apical processes 

 (in c? ) shoi't and bluntly conical. Upper surface convex, witli 

 regular rows of distinct separated granules ; interval 1 with a 

 complete row of distant tubercles, becoming very much smaller 

 behind middle ; interval 2 with only an apical, subcristate row of 

 small conical tubercles ; 3, 5, and 7 with rows of small separated 

 conical tubercles, that on 3 ceasing abruptly at the top of the 

 declivity ; 4 and 6 devoid of tubercles, or at most with one or two 

 isolated ones ; tubercles bare, shiny, with depressed dark sette, the 

 interspaces with sparse fulvous scaling, which is denser and brighter 

 on the inflexed margins, and with a large transverse paler patch 

 at the top of the declivity. Legs with depressed pale fulvous seta? 

 and a ring of white scales near the apex of the posterior pairs of 

 femora ; posterior tarsi broad, the three basal joints subequal in 

 length and breadth. 



South Africa. 



Type in the South African Museum. 



Tliis species is in some respects intermediate between H. severus 

 and M. pihdarms. It resembles the latter in having the tubercles 

 on the second interval of the elytra distinctly cristate on the 

 declivity and also in the banding of the femora ; but the rostral 

 characters are much nearer those of severus, especially the 

 anteocular furrows, which are long, deep, oblique, and dorsally 

 convergent. 



36. H. PILULARIUS (F.). 



Curculio piMarms F. Mant. i. p. 121 (1787) ; 01. Ent. v. 83, 

 p. 391, t. 15. f. 188 (1807) ; Herbst, Col. vi. p. 305, t. 84. f. 2 

 (1797). 



H. pihdariics Gyl. Schonh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 460 (1833), v. p. 746 

 (1840). 



CktcuMo armillatus Sparrm. Act. Holm. (1785) i. p. 44? 



H. pastillarms Gyl. op. c. i. p. 462 (1833). 



If. ttirpis Schh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 465 (1833). 



Long. 20-27, lat. 8-12 mm. 



Head convex, faintly and dispersely punctured, with thin greyish 

 scaling on vertex ; forehead bare and with a fine centi-al stria, 

 sometimes reduced to a mere fovea ; anteocular fui-rows deep. 

 JRostrum without a basal incision, as long as prothorax, distinctly 

 curved and gradually dilated to apex. Upper surface plane or 

 slightly convex in the basal part, broadly but shallowly excavate 



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