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interval 1 granulate ; interval 2 with four or five isolated low 

 tubercles ; 3 and 5 with small contiguous and usually duplicated 

 tubercles forming an obtuse cai-ina to beyond middle, after which 

 the tubercles become larger, separate, and sharply conical ; 4 and 6 

 devoid of tubercles ; 7 wdth a complete row of separated conical 

 tubercles, becoming larger towai-ds apex ; scaling dark brown, 

 suture grey, interval 4 wholly, and 6 partly, white, inflexed 

 margin entirely white. Legs with dense pale scaling ; posterior 

 tarsi almost devoid of setse, joints of about the same width, 2nd 

 and 3rd subequal in length, 1st longer. 



Cape Colony. 



Type in the British Museum. 



48. H. HORNi Mshl. (Plate II. fig. 4.) 



H. horni Mshl. 1. c. p. 410 (1902). 



Long. 19, lat. 8 mm. 



Head convex, with dense light brown scaling on vertex ; forehead 

 bai-e, indistinctly punctured and with a centi-al fovea ; anteocular 

 furrows distinct. Rostrum not incised dorsally at base, about as 

 long as head and prothorax, slightly curved, dilated near apex. 

 Upper surface distinctly convex at base, shallowly excavate at 

 apex only, indistinctly punctured and with a broad, smooth, low 

 carina thi-oughout ; lateral sulci not meeting at base, shallow, of 

 about equal length ; scrobes directed beneath base of rostrum ; 

 inferior basal furrow shallow. Antennce with scape not neaily 

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

 transverse, the length rather gi'eater than the width at base, which 

 is broader than apex, sides subangulate, broadest about middle, 

 dorsal anterior margin convex, ocular lobes strongly developed. 

 Upper surface slightly convex, with four fairly regular rows of 

 small closely-set tubercles, leaving three large smooth longitudinal 

 spaces ; the central space is closely and distinctly punctured and 

 contains no carina, whilst the others are indistinctly j)unctured ; 

 below the outer row is a collection of four or five tubei-cles, which 

 form the lateral angulation ; tubercles black, shiny and without setse. 

 Elytra ovate, shoulders sloping, sides modei'ately rounded, broadest 

 about middle, apical processes long, shaip, divergent, and turning 

 rather upwards. Upper surface convex, with regular rows of 

 small granules, often separated by large shallow indistinct punc- 

 tures ; intervals 1, 2, 4, and 6 plane and smootli ; interval 3 with 

 a complete row of shiny brown tubercles ; as far as the declivity 

 these are small, rounded, irregular, and often duplicated, but on 

 the declivity they are large and sharply conical ; interval 5 with 

 a perfectly regular and closely-set row of small rounded brown 

 tubercles from base to about middle, where it terminates quite 

 abruptly; interval 7 with a complete row of small subconical 

 tubercles ; tubercles bare, shiny and without setse. Legs with 

 pale scaling ; posterior tarsi rather narrow, the joints of about the 

 same width, 2nd and ord subequal in length, 1st much longer. 



Cape Colony. 



