1904.] OF THE GENUS HIPPORRHINUS. 71 



eating and directed upwards. Upper surface convex with regular 

 rows of small granules separated by shallow punctures ; interval 1 

 with a complete row of depressed granules ; intervals 2, 4, and 6 

 quite plane, or at most with one or two isolated tubei'cles ; intervals 

 3, 5, and 7 with complete rows of small tubercles, which are 

 depressed and closely set near base, but la,rger, more conical, and 

 more distant towards apex ; tubercles with shoit depressed yellow 

 setfe ; scaling thin, light brown, variegated with white, especially 

 towards sides. Legs without scales, but with sparse white setse ; 

 posterior tarsi with the thi'ee joints nearly equal in length and 

 breadth. 



Cape Colony : Table Mt. Range (Z. Peringuey). 



Very closely allied to recurvm F., from which it differs in having 

 a fine stria on the rostrum instead of a deep central furrow with 

 11 basal impression ; the rostrum is also more strongly declivous 

 near the apex ; the eyes are less prominent ; the ocular lobes on 

 the thorax are better developed ; and the scales on the elytra are 

 distinctly smallei". 



57. H. xivosus (8parrm.). 



Cht7'Culio nivosus Sparrm. Act. Holm. i. 1785, p. 45, t. 2. f. 11. 



Curculio nodulosus Hbst. (nee F.) Col. vi. p. .300, t. 83. f. 8 

 <1797). 



H. recurvus Gyl. (nee F.) Schh. Gen. Cure. i. p. 467 (1833). 



H. nivosi(,s Gyl. op. c. p. 470 (1833) ; Fahr. Schh. op. c. v. p. 752 

 <1840). 



Long. 25, lat. 10 mm. 



Head convex, with scattered shallow punctuation and fvilvous 

 scaling forming a band across vertex, a ring round each eye, and 

 a central stripe on forehead : a deep fovea at base of rostrum ; 

 anteocular furrows distinct, rather convergent above. Eostnmi 

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

 profile the upper outline is straight from base to far beyond 

 middle and then sharply deflected. Upper surface obscurely 

 punctured, almost plane in basal half, shallowly excavate and 

 dilated apically, its edges there carinate and sharply angulated 

 above the insertion of antennae ; upper lateral sulci absent, the, 

 lower ones very faint and filled with yellowish scaling ; scrobes 

 directed beneath base of rostrum ; inferior basal furrow shallow. 

 Anteniue ■wit\\ dense yellowish scaling; scape scarcely reaching 

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

 broader than long, apex mvTch narrower than base, sides strongly 

 i-ounded, broadest about middle, dorsal anterior margin convex, 

 ocular lobes moderate. Upper surface almost plane, fairly closely 

 set with I'ather large depressed tubercles, leaving a central furrow 

 containing a very shoi-t low carina and a naiTow smooth line on 

 either side ; tubercles with short depressed black setee, intei'stices 

 bare, except the thi-ee smooth lines and tlie sides of presternum, 

 which are clothed with rounded creamy-yellow or white scales. 

 Elytra elongato-ovate, shoulders sloping, sides slightly rounded, 



