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



anteriorly, smooth in the centre and with scattered punctuation 

 laterally ; upper lateral sulcus very faint and punctate, the lower 

 sulcus much broader, deeper, and longer ; scrobes deep, directed 

 beneath base of rostrum ; inferior basal furrow deep. Antennce 

 with sparse grey setse ; scape not reaching eye ; the two basal 

 joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax rather longer than the 

 width at base, apex narrower, sides strongly dilated and produced 

 into an obtuse tuberculated spine, anterior margin convex, ocular 

 lobes well developed. Upper suiface moderately convex, irregu- 

 larly set with large rounded tubercles, leaving a distinct central 

 furrow containing an abbreviated carina ; the tubercles bare, 

 shiny, each with a very short depressed seta, the interstices with 

 dense greyish scaling. Elytra oblongo-ovate, much narrower in S ■, 

 shoulders sloping, sides slightly ampliated, broadest about middle, 

 apical processes short, acute, and divaricating in both sexes. 

 Upper surface convex, with fairly regular rows of small granules 

 in lieu of punctures ; intervals uneven, the first with a row of 

 small tubercles, becoming much smaller near apex ; 2, 3, 5, and 7 

 with complete rows of larger tubercles, which are low and rounded 

 on the disk, but become conical towards the apex and sides, those 

 on interval 2 being strongly cristate on the declivity ; intervals 

 4 and 6 devoid of tubercles or with abbreviated or interrupted 

 rows ; tubercles bare, shiny, with short depressed setse, the 

 interspaces more or less densely covered with small greyish scaling, 

 usually in patches and often much abraded. Legs finely punctured, 

 with sparse pale scaling, forming a denser ring near apex of 

 femora ; posterior tarsi broad, the joints of about the same Avidth, 

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



Cape Colony : Port Elizabeth {Dr. Brauns), Grahamstown 

 {Bev. J. A. O'JVeil), Cape Town, Geoi-ge, and Beaufort West [S. A. 

 Museum]. 



I am not certain as to the whereabouts of the type ; the type 

 oi pastillarms is at Stockholm. 



Of this species Father O'Neil writes me that it "is fairly 

 common in the neighbourhood of Grahamstown, where it is usually 

 taken on sandy roads and pathways. At Dunbrody [Uitenhage] 

 I have only taken it once, when I came across a whole family of 

 about twenty of these insects (all totally black) on bushes." The 

 form described by Gyllenhal as pastillarius is merely a variation 

 in which the tubercles on intervals 4 and 6 of the elytra are 

 absent. Fabricius' JI. glohifer " var. thorace utrinque unispinoso " 

 was referred by Schonherr with doubt to condecoratus Gyl. ; the 

 specimen is, however, in the Banksian Collection, with the type 

 of glohifer, and is certainly referable to this species. 



37. H. PURVUS Fahr. 



H.fxirmis FShr. Of v. K. Yet.-Ak. Forh p. 205 (1871). 



Head convex, obscurely punctured and covered with fulvous 

 scaling ; anteocular furrows deep, subconvergent above. Rostrum 

 not incised dorsally at base, as long as head and prothorax, stout, 



