On new Curculioni(l;i'//-o»« South Africa. t)?)\ 



LVTI. — On netv Curculioni(l;e//*o/>i South Africa. 

 By Guy A. K. Marshall, C.M.G., D.Sc. 



[Plate v.] 



S u])family Ba'acri'deetx^. 

 PoinpIiNS aciilicol/is, sp. ii. (PI. V. fig. 1.) 



(^ $ . Integument black or piceous, clothed above and 

 below with dense, uniform, pale grey scaling. 



Head rather strongly convex transversely, witli a deep 

 median furrow ; the scaling dense and the setae short, 

 scale-like, and recumbent; the eyes produced sharply ])ack- 

 wards, as in Profosfrophus, with the greatest depth in the 

 middle. Roslj-uai much narrowed in front, with the sides 

 straight ; the dorsum with two sulci diverging from the 

 middle of the base, but not reaching the sides or apex, and 

 Avith a median impression just behind the epistome, but 

 without any median carina. Aniennce with joints 3-6 of 

 the funicle equal and slightly transverse, and 7 distinctly 

 broader. Prothorax about three times as broad as long, 

 distinctly broader than the base of the elytra and widening 

 from the apex to the base; the sides approximately straight 

 and indefinitely denticulate, the anterior angles (as seen 

 directly from above) acuminate and projecting obliquely 

 outwards well beyond the eyes, the hind angles })roduced 

 obliquely backwards in the form of a long spine; the front 

 margin straight, except for a lateral sinuation for the 

 reception of each eye ; the hind margin broadly arcuate in 

 the middle and gently sinuate externally on each side ; the 

 dorsum very strongly convex transversely and feebly so 

 longitudinally, with an abbreviated median furrow and 

 coarse confiuent punctation, which is partly concealed by 

 the dense scaling, the scales being arranged in rosettes. 

 Elytra oblong-ovate, widest behind the middle, very broadly 

 rounded behind (as seen from above), the actual apex being 

 slightly drawn in, constricted at the base, so that the basal 

 angles project shortly, and with a small sharp subhumcral 

 tubercle on interval 1) ; the rows of punctures very irregular 

 and often duplicated, scarcely diminishing behind, and the 

 basal puncture larger than any of the others, each of which 

 contains a minute seta ; the intervals even, sufficiently 

 indicated by the rows of recumbent scale-like setae ; the 

 scales round, convex, very closely set, but scarcely over- 

 lapping. 



Leufjth 3'6-i'5 mm,, breadth 1-8-2-1 mm. 



