1904.] OF THE GEXUS HIPPORRHIXUS. 113 



with the 3rd joint rather broader than the others, 2nd and 3rd 

 subequal in length, 1st rather longer. 



Cape Colony : Burgh ersdorp. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



107. H. LATiCEPs Mshl. (Plate III. fig. 10.) 



H. laticeps Mshl. 1. c. p. 453 (1902). 



Long. 10, lat. 4 mm. 



Head densely covered with brown scaling, convex on vertex ; 

 forehead broad, flattened and with a short central carina, eyes 

 prominent ; anteocnlar furrows short and nari-ow but distinct. 

 Eostrum not incised at base, short and thick, about as long as 

 prothorax only, scarcely curved. Upper surface convex, closely 

 punctured and densely squamose, with five thin imdulating carinfe, 

 which are black and shiny, the thi'ee central ones being of the 

 same height ; lateral sulci distinct, the upper pair much broader 

 and converging at base, which is evidently raised ; scrobes latei'al 

 but oblique ; inferior transverse basal furrow absent. Antennce 

 piceous, finely pubescent ; scape just reaching anterior margin of 

 eye ; the two basal joints of funicle subequal. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, its length about equal to the width at base, which is 

 scarcely broader than apex, dorsal anterior mai-gin deeply concave, 

 sides moderately rounded, broadest about middle, ocular lobes very 

 slight. Upper surface convex, closely set with rounded granules, 

 leaving a narrow central furrow without any carina ; granules 

 bare, each with a subdepi-essed seta, the interstices with brown 

 scaling and a paler central line. Elytra elongato-ovate, rather 

 acuminate apically in $ , shoulders rounded, sides scarcely 

 ampliated, broadest about middle, apical processes absent. Upper 

 surface almost plane on disk, faintly sulcate, the sulci containing 

 small shallow punctures which are quite hidden by the scaling ; 

 all intervals similar, having single rows of minute black granules 

 bearing subdepressed setse; scaling dense, uniform grey- brown. 

 Legs with long whitish pubescence ; posterior tarsi narrow, setose, 

 the 2nd joint rather narrower than the 1st and 3rd, 2nd and 3i'd 

 subequal in length, 1st longer. 



Cape Colony ; Port Elizabeth {Dr. H. Brauns). 



Type in the British Museum. 



In my original description (loc. cit.) of this species I compared 

 it with areuarius Fahr. I had not then seen Fahi^teus' type, 

 and the insect which I referred to his species is really pernnixtvjS 

 Mshl. 



108. H. GUNNiNGi Mshl. (Plate lY. fig. 2.) 



H. cjunningi Mshl. 1. c. p. 442 (1902). 



Long. 19-20, lat. 7^-8 mm. 



Head closely pxmctured and densely squamose, convex on 

 vertex, forehead flattened and with a central carina, eyes rather 

 prominent ; anteocnlar furrows obsolescent. Rostrum not incised 

 at base, scarcely as long as prothorax alone, very little curved and 



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