1904.] OF THE GENUS HIPPORRHINUS. 85' 



with large round light and dark brown scales. Legs with dense 

 pale scaling and setse ; posterior tarsi broad, the joints subequal 

 in length and breadth. 



Cape Colony : Uitenhage {Dr. H. Brauns), Grahanistown. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



This species is very similar to the preceding one, but the 

 insects are distinctly larger and more robust ; the prothorax is 

 much broader and has its sides more strongly rounded ; the 

 tubercles on both prothorax and elyti'a are smaller and not 

 nearly so conical. 



72. H. LOBATUS Mshl. (Plate II. fig. 8.) 



H. lobatus Mshl. 1. c. p. 414 (1902). 



Long. 23, lat. 10 mm. 



Head convex, with scattered shallow punctures, vertex with 

 dense scaling, forehead bare and with a central fovea ; anteocular 

 furrows distinct and complete. Rostrum not incised at base,, 

 about as long as head and prothorax, thick, gradually dilated to 

 apex, sti'ongly curved, its uppei- edge in profile being in a con- 

 tinuous line with the forehead from base to middle, then strongly 

 deflexed at a sharp angle. Upper surface convex at base, deeply 

 excavate anteriorly, its edges being strongly raised in the form of 

 angulated carinae, with large diffuse and shallow punctures leaving 

 a broad smooth central line ; lateral sulci shallow a,nd indistinct, 

 the upper one obsolescent ; inferior basal furrow absent. Antennce. 

 with dense brown scaling : scape not reaching eyes ; the two basal 

 joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax transverse, the length about 

 equal to the width at base, the apex narrower, sides moderately 

 rounded, broadest about middle, dorsal anterior margin convex, 

 ocular lobes strongly developed. Upper surface plane, diffusely 

 set with large elevated rounded tvibercles, leaving a broad central 

 furrow containing a distinct short carina ; tubercles bai^e, with 

 depressed setfe, the interstices covered with round whitish scales. 

 Elytra oblongo-ovate, sides subparallel to beyond raiddle, shoulders 

 roundedly prominent, apical processes in both sexes short but 

 sharp and divergent. Upper surface convex, stripe with rows of 

 small punctures with more or less distinct intervening granules ; 

 interval 1 with a row of distant granules ; interval 2 with an 

 abbreviated row of tubercles from before middle to apex, those on 

 disk small and rounded, those on the declivity much larger and 

 sharply conical ; intervals 3, 5, and 7 with complete rows of small 

 subconical tubercles, which become larger and more conical near 

 apex ; intervals 4 and 6 quite smooth ; tubercles bare and with 

 short pale depi"essed setse, interspaces with thin brown scaling 

 variegated with grey. Legs with dense pale scaling ; posterior 

 tarsi with the joints of about the same width, 1st a little longer 

 than 2nd, and 2nd than 3rd. 



Namaqu ALAND : O'okiep (Z. Peringuey). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Resembles H. mammiUatics Gyl. in general facies, but the 



