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



broade.st alioiit middle, apical processes long, sliarp and divergent. 

 Upper surface convex, with regular rows of small grannies ; 

 interval 1 with a row of small low tubercles, decreasing greatly in 

 size towai'ds apex ; intervals 2. 3, 5, and 7 witli complete rows of 

 large, depressed, elongate and sejiarated tubercles, which become 

 bluntly conical near apex, those on the declivity of interval 2 

 being larger than the rest ; intem'als 4 and 6 smooth, or at most 

 with a few isolated tubercles near base ; tubercles l^are. with short 

 black depressed seta?, interstices (except on intei-vals 2 and 3) 

 clothed with dense or cream-coloured scaling. Legs with dense 

 yellowisli scaling variegated with bai-e black spots ; posterioi- 

 tarsi with joints of about tlie same width, 2nd and 3rd subequal 

 in length, 1st rather longer. 

 Cape Colony : Damaealand. 



58. H. maculatus Mshl. (Plate II. fig. 9.) 



H. maculatus Mshl. 1. c. p. 412 (1902). 



Long. 26, lat. 11 mm. 



Head convex, closely shagreened on vertex, punctured in front, 

 with a broad band of elongate yelloAv scaling across forehead and 

 running down in front of each eye ; forehead with a deep fovea 

 near base of rostrinn ; anteocular furrows deep and complete, con- 

 verging somewhat dorsally. Rostrum not incised at base, as long 

 as head and prothorax. in profile the uppei' line is sti'aight from 

 base to near the insertion of the antenna^, then sharply deflected. 

 Upper surface broadly but very shallowly excavate throughout, 

 with its edges strongly carinate from ba se to insertion of antennse, 

 with punctures and yellow scaling at the sides, and a broad smooth 

 central line throughout ; upper lateral sulci obsolete, the lower 

 ones faint, filled with yellow scales, and quite hidden from above 

 by the lateral carina; scrobes directed bene;^tTi base of rostrum ; 

 inferior transverse basal furrow aljsent. Antenna} with dense 

 yellow scaling ; scape not quite reaching eye ; the two basal joints 

 of funicle subequal. Prothorax transverse, length equal to width 

 at base, apex narrower, sides strongly rounded, broadest a))out 

 middle, ocular lobes moderately developed. Upper surface almost 

 plane, sparsely covered with large flattened tubercles, leaving a. 

 central furrow containing a very short carina and a lateral smooth 

 line on either side ; prosternumand the three dorsal lines covered 

 with yellow scaling, the rest bare. Elytra ovate, shoulders 

 sloping, sides moderately rounded, broadest about middle, apical 

 processes in female long and sharp. Upper surface convex, the 

 strise with more or less regular rows of large granules, the 

 intei'vals unequally tuberculate ; interval 1 with elongate depressed 

 tubercles, becoming smaller behind and vanishing before apex ; 

 intervals 2, 3, and 5 with closely-set, elongate, depressed tubercles 

 to beyond middle, after which they become sharply conical to 

 apex, those on interval 2 being most prominent ; intervals 4, 6, 

 and 7 with smaller separated tubercles, depressed near Imse and 

 conical towards apex; tubercles and granules quite bare and 



