1904.] OF THE GENUS HIPPORRHINUS. 123 



svii'face convex, the sulci containing i-ows of deep punctures clearly 

 visible through the scaling ; the intervals of even height, each 

 with a i-ow of large, rather distant grannies, which are shiny and 

 hear depressed pale setae, the interspaces with dense brownish or 

 g-reyish scaling. Legs thickly clothed with brownish scaling, 

 forming a rather denser ring near apex of femora ; posterior tarsi 

 with the joints all of the same width, 2nd and 3rd subequal in 

 length, 1st a little longer. 



Orange River Colony : Bothaville {Dr. H. Brauns). Trans- 

 vaal : Pretoria (TF. L. Distant), Lydenburg. Mashonaland : 

 Umtali {A. Bodong). 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



119. H. PROPiNQuus, sp. nov. (Plate lY. fig. 5.) 



Long. 12-14, lat. ^-^ mm. 



Head covei-ed with dense grey scaling, convex on veitex, fore- 

 head strongly depressed and with a distinct centi'al carina ; ante- 

 ocular fui'rows deep, approximated above. Rostrum not com- 

 pletely cut off from head by a transverse incision, slightly curved 

 and dilated towards apex. Upper surface densely squamose, with 

 five carinse, the central one being narrower than the others, the 

 three median carinfe converge near base to form a prominent 

 tubercle which is distinctly bifid at apex ; behind the tubercle is 

 a short carina continvious with that on forehead ; upper lateral 

 sulci broad, deep and uniting at base, the lower pair much 

 shallower, shorter and narrower ; scrobes deep, lateral and oblique ; 

 inferior basal furrow distinct. Antennce short and thick, clothed 

 with pale setfe ; scape barely reaching eye ; the two basal joints 

 of funicle subequal. Prothorax transverse, apex luther nari-ower 

 than base, sides rounded, broadest somewhat before middle, dorsal 

 anterior margin slightly convex, ocular lobes moderate. Upper 

 surface convex, moderately closely set with small rounded tubercles, 

 leaving an indistinct central furrow containing no carina ; apices 

 of tubercles bare and with short depressed pale setfe, the inter- 

 stices with dense grey scaling. Elytra ovate, a little nairower in 

 c? , shovilders roundedly prominent, sides slightly amj)liated, 

 broadest rather before middle, apical processes absent. Upper 

 surface convex, with shallow sulci containing rows of small 

 jDunctures, which are normally quite concealed by the scaling ; 

 the intervals of even height, each with a row of small, fairly 

 closely-set gi^anviles, bearing pale depressed setse, the interspaces 

 with dense grey scaling. Legs with sparse greyish scaling, forming 

 a denser ring near apex of femora ; posterior tarsi with the joints 

 of about the same width, 2nd and 3rd subequal, 1st rather longer. 



Mashonaland : Salisbury. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Very closely allied to corniculatus FShr., of which it is the 

 northern repi-esentative. It may be distinguished from that 

 species by the following characters : the rostrum is not nearly 

 so deep and much less curved, the inferior basal furrow much 



