6 MR. I". P. PASCOE ON THE CUllCULIONIDiE. 



patches ; but, judging from the two examples of this species 

 before me, there is the usual variability in this respect. 



Brachycerus TURSio. (PI. I. fig. 10.) B. ovatus, niger, squamosi- 

 tate albida, fusco-plagiata, vestitus ; rostro basi longitudinaliter ex- 

 cavato, vage punctato ; oculis ovatis, infra acuminatis ; antennis albo- 

 squamosis ; prothorace subtransverso, utrinque in medio late angulato- 

 producto, rarissime insequaliter punctato, vitta fusca, apieem versus 

 gradatim dilatata, ornato ; elytris globosis, impunctatis, humeris ma- 

 culaque magna pone medium fuscis; abdomine nigro, segmentis 

 utrinque macula albo-squamosa notatis; pedibus albido-squamosis. 

 Long. 8 lin. 



Hab. Damara Land. 



This well-marked species belongs to Schonherr's " Stirps 1 " 

 and " Mr.nipulus 1." 



AcANTHOLOPHUS NASicoRNis. A. oblongus, niger, sejunctim albido- 

 squamosus ; fronte lineis duabus impressa, supra oculum spinis dua- 

 bus connatis ; rostro basi transversim sulcato, antice fortiter excavato, 

 ad latera carinato, carinse apice spina couica munito, basi triangulari- 

 ter foveata ; antennis elongatis, squamosis, setulis adspersis ; funiculo 

 articulo secundo quam primo fere duplo longiore, quatuor ultimis 

 longiusculis ; clava elongata ; prothorace paulo convexo, leviter gra- 

 nulato, in medio longitudinaliter sulcato, sulco utrinque basi tuber- 

 culis duobus parvis obsito, apice utrinque tuberculo conico instructo, 

 lateribus dorsi quadrituberculatis, tuberculis duobus anticis majoribus, 

 antico minore, basi connatis, posticis minusculis, sed tuberculo postico 

 longiusculo ; elytris seriatim foveatis, dorso interstitiis granulatis, 

 postice magis tuberculatis, interstitio quinto (humerali) tuberculis 

 conicis majusculis (circa 11-12) munito, lateribus foveatis; pedibus 

 squamosis, nigro-setosis. Long. 8 lin, 

 Sab. West Australia. 



The scales, under a Codington, are of a pearly lustre ; but to 

 the naked eye the back has a smoky tinge varied with cinereous ; 

 the two median rows of tubercles on the prothorax are not di- 

 stinctly marked oiF from those on the disk, except two somewhat 

 larger tubercles on each side at the base. 



AcANTHOLOPHUS GLADIATOR. (PI. II. fig. 3.) A. oblongUS, fuSCUS, 



interrupte silaceo-squamosus ; rostro antice leviter trifido-impresso, 

 supra oculum spina vaUda instructo ; clava modice pedunculata ; pro- 

 thorace supra bifariam tuberculato, tuberculo antico valde producto, 

 securiformi, tuberculo postico parvo, inter eos tuberculis quatuor ob- 

 conicis obsito, lateribus utrinque trituberculato, anteriore manifeste 

 longiore, postico pavvo ; elytris trifariam tuberculatis, quatuor anticis 



