1904.] OF THE GENUS HIPPORRHIXITS. 97 



and with rather long subdepressed pale setse, the interspa,ces with 

 dense greyish-brown scaling. Elytra oblongo-ovate, very narrow 

 in (S , shoulders sloping, sides subparallel to beyond middle, apical 

 processes very short in $ , absent in S - Ui^per surface convex, 

 with regular rows of small shallow punctures ; interval 1 with a 

 row of depressed setje disappeai-ing near apex ; intervals 2, 4, and 

 6 each with only a very short apical row of small tubercles, that 

 on 2 subcristate ; intervals 3, 5, and 7 with costate rows of small 

 closely-set tubercles, those on the two former ceasing abruptly 

 behind middle ; only the exti-eme apices of tubercles bare and each 

 with a depressed pale seta, the interspaces with dense uniform 

 pale greyish-brown scaling. Legs with fine white pubescence and 

 scattered white set£e ; posterior tarsi narrow, the 3rd joint i-ather 

 broader than 2nd, 1st joint longer than 2nd, and 2nd than 3rd, 



Cape Colony. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



87. H. ACULEATUS Mshl. (Plate III. fig. 7.) 



H, aculeatus Mshl. 1. c. p. 455 (1903). 



Long. 12, lat. 5 mm. 



Head broadly and deeply excavated, densely clothed with brown 

 scaling, the vertex, a narrow central line, and a ring round the eye 

 paler and with a metallic reflection ; a short fine central stria 

 between the eyes ; anteocular furrows narrow but deep, approxi- 

 mated dorsally. Rostrum not incised at base, as long as head and 

 prothorax, slightly curved, its upper outline very strongly angu- 

 lated beyond middle. Upper surface convex, densely covered with 

 pale scaling, 5-sulcate, the carintB edging the central furrow being 

 gradually I'aised so as to form a sharp angular prominence beyond 

 middle ; lateral sulci deep and distinct, the upper pair meeting at 

 base ; scrobes straight and directed beneath ba,se of rostrum ; 

 inferior basal furrow present, but not strongly marked. Antennce 

 with scape barely reaching eye ; the two basal joints of funicle 

 subequal. Prothorax as long as its width at base, very little 

 narrower at apex, sides not much rounded, broadest about middle, 

 ocular lobes moderately developed. Upper surface not very con- 

 vex, with a broad median furrow (without a, carina) and on each 

 side of it three regular rows of long cylindrical spine-like tubercles, 

 each row containing five ; the whole surface densely clothed with 

 brown scales, except the extreme apices of the tubercles, each of 

 which bears a long depressed seta. Elytra elongato-ovate, sides 

 not much rounded, broadest about middle, apical declivity longer 

 and more abrupt than usual, apical processes absent. Upper 

 surface very convex, with regular rows of punctures, somewhat 

 obscured by the dense brownish scaling ; the intervals slightly and 

 equally costate, each with a regular row of small scale-covered 

 setigerous granules, those on interval 2 slightly cristate on the 

 declivity only. Legs elongate, with dense grey scaling and scattered 

 pale setae ; posterior tai'si with the 2nd joint a little narrower than 

 the other two, 2nd and 3rd subequal in length, 1st slightly longer. 

 Proc. Zoox. Soc— 1904, Vol. I. No. VII. 7 



