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bi'oader and Hubtruncate, the sides linear ; uppei' sui-face slightly 

 convex, evenly set with low, rathei- distant granules and without 

 lateral impressions ; colour piceous, granules bare, the interstices 

 with thin yellowish pubescence which is denser lateiully. Elytra 

 pyriform, slightly eniai'ginate at base, which is a little broader 

 than the j)rothorax, the humei'al angles obtvise, sides strongly 

 rounded, broadest well behind middle ; upper surface convex, the 

 strife containing rows of shallow punctures separated by small 

 granules, the intervals almost plane, subequal in width on the 

 disk, finely coriaceous and with traces of depressed obsolescent 

 granules, especially near apex ; colour piceous, with thin minute 

 grey scaling which is denser and yellowish along the inflexed 

 margins. Legs feiTuginous, with thin grey pubescence, the 

 anterior tibiae only slightly curved. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Natal: Lower Tugela {E. Reynolds — Brit. Mus.). 



Founded on two specimens of uncertain sex. In general facies 

 this insect is like an elongated bisirigicollis, but the very broad 

 and carinate scape will at once distinguish it fi'om all its 

 congeners. 



*25. SciOBius PERiNGUEYi, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 11.) 



Long. 8f, lat. 24 mm. 



Head moderately transverse, slightly convex, finely coriaceous, 

 with fine pale scaling which is denser round the eyes ; forehead 

 shallowly depressed in middle ; eyes slightly prominent. Rostrum 

 longer than broad, its basal margin sharply angulate, sides sub- 

 parallel to near apex, gense rounded and slightly dilated ; upper 

 surface plane, coriaceous, finely tricarinate, the outer carinse 

 straight and parallel. Antennce moderately long and slender, 

 piceous, with dense fine grey pubescence ; scape not compressed, 

 but strongly curved about middle and subclavate beyond the 

 curve; funicle with the first and third joints subequal. Prothorax 

 rather broader than long, truncate at base and apex, the latter 

 being a little narrower, sides slightly rounded, broadest about 

 middle ; upper surface convex, set with rather distant depi^essed 

 granules and without any impressions ; colour piceous, Avith thin 

 grey scaling dorsally and with dense yellow scaling latei-ally and 

 beneath. Elytra ovate, truncate at base, subacuminate apically, 

 a little broader than the prothoi-ax at the shoidders, which are 

 subrectangular and slightly prominent, sides moderately rounded, 

 broadest rather before middle ; upper surface convex and gradually 

 declivous behind, with bi'oad strife containing rows of large shallow 

 punctures separated by small granules and disappearing on the 

 declivity ; the intervals of equal width, narrow, slightly convex 

 and coarsely coriaceous but without any distinct granulation ; 

 colour piceous, with fine yellow scaling, which is thin dorsally, 

 except round the scutellum, but forms a broad and dense lateral 

 stripe Avhich emits inwardly an oblique pointed band nearly 

 reaching the suture at the summit of the declivity. Legs 



