64 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL OX COLEOPTERA [Jan. 19, 



Type in the British Museum. 



Allied to H. ruhifer (F.), which, however, lacks the lateral 

 smooth spaces on the px'othorax ; the tubercles on its elytra are 

 larger and further apart, and the row on interval 5 is complete 

 and not abruptly interrupted. 



49. H. RUBIFER (F.). 



GwrciMo ruUfer F. Syst. Ent., App. p. 822 (1775); 01. Ent. v. 

 83, p. 389, t. 13. f. 159 (1807). 



H. condecoratus Gyll. Schonh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 464 (1833). 



//. ruhrosjyinosus Fahr. Schonh. op. c. v. p. 750 (1840). 



Long. 22-24, lat. 9|-10| mm. 



Head convex, finely and dispersely punctured, with faii-ly dense 

 brown scaling, forehead with a small central fovea ; anteocular 

 furrows rather shallow. Rostrum not incised at base, as long as 

 head and prothorax, slightly curved and dilated in the apical half. 

 Upper surface squamose and more or less distinctly punctured 

 except along the median line, subconvex in the basal half and 

 broadly excavate towards apex ; lateral sulci of about equal length, 

 shallow and not uniting at base ; scrobes deep, directed beneath 

 base of rosti'um ; inferioi- basal furrow present. Antennce with 

 dense pale scaling ; scape not reaching eye ; the two basal joints 

 of funicle subequal. Prothorax rather broader than long, the 

 length equal to the width at base, apex much narrower, sides 

 ampliatecl and angulated about middle, dorsal antei'ior margin 

 evidently convex, oculai- lobes well developed. Upper surface 

 convex, sparsely and irregularly set with low rounded tubercles, 

 leaving a bi'oad deep lance-shaped central furrow containing a 

 faint carina, and an irregvilar and variable patch free of tubercles 

 on each side of the furrow ; tubercles with depressed dark set^e, 

 the interstices with dense brown scaling except in the central 

 fiuTow where it is pale grey ; the vmderparts are covered with 

 dense whitish scaling in sharp contrast to the upper surface. 

 Elytra ovate, narrower in cT , shoiilders sloping, sides rovinded, 

 broadest about middle, apical processes in both sexes sharp, conical, 

 and divergent. Upper surface convex, with more or less regular 

 rows of granules in lieu of punctures ; interval 1 with a row of 

 minute granules ; intervals 3, 5, and 7 more raised than the others 

 and -with complete rows of small rounded tubercles which become 

 conical towards apex ; intervals 2, 4, and 6 each with a few larger 

 and widely separated tubercles, those on 2 being most numerous 

 and those on 6 frequently absent ; apices of granules and tubercles 

 bare, the latter often of a reddish colour and with depressed dark 

 setfe, the interstices with dense brown scaling, the inflexed 

 margins being white. Legs with uniform dense brownish scaling ; 

 posterior tarsi with the joints of the same width, the 2nd and 3rd 

 subequal in length. 



Cape Coloxy : Cape Town and Stellenbosch {L. Peringuey), 

 Piquetbei'g, Kraaifontein [S. A. Mus.]. 



Type in the British Museum (coll. Banks). 



