532 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall 07i new 



Portuguese E.Africa : Iiicaiiiiie,Yi.l908 (C. W.Hoivard); 



luyaka, Delagoa Bay, x. 191. 2 (K, H. Barnard). 

 Described from four specimens. ^ 



Eeadily dlstiiigiiished from the two previously described 



species (Auu. & Mag. N. H. (9) i. 1919, p. 8) by the sharply 



produced eyes^ the acute thoracic angles, and the recumbent 



scale-like setae. 



Proscephaladeres dispar, sp. n. 



(^ ? . Integument blacky rather thinly clothed with grey 

 scales more or less intermixed with brown ones, or vice 

 versa. 



Head rugosely punctate, with a very deep median furrow 

 and faint longitudinal impression on each side; the eyes 

 very prominent, deepest much behind the middle, the 

 posterior edge of the ocular prominence lying at right angles 

 to the long axis of the head. Rostrum as long as broad, 

 distinctly narrowed from base to apex ; the dorsum flat, 

 rugosely punctate, with an oblique sulcus running from the 

 middle of the base to the middle of the disk on each side, 

 and a rounded median impression just behind the epistome. 

 Prothorax much broader than long, strongly rounded at the 

 sides, widest at the middle, truncate and distinctly marginate 

 at the base, the apex shallowly sinuate; the dorsum very 

 convex longitudinally, with separated low shiny granules and 

 with a very indefinite abbreviated low median ridge; the 

 scales short and oblong, lying transversely. Elytra sub- 

 globose or very broadly ovate, widest before the middle, 

 broadly rounded behind, with the actual apex invisible from 

 above, the basal margin truncate ; the dorsum with shallow 

 strise containing large punctures, which are partly hidden 

 by the scaling, the intervals slightly convex, even and with- 

 out rows of setse ; the scales small, ovate, much shorter than 

 those on the prothorax, and not entirely concealing the 

 integument. Legs somewhat scabrous, with fairly dense 

 pale scaling, the tibiae markedly denticulate internally, with 

 the apical fringe of set?e pale, the hind pair with the dorsal 

 edge sinuate and with the obliquely ascending portion of the 

 corbel not longer than the truncate apical part. 



Length 6 "6-9 '6 mm., breadth 3-5 mm. 



Portuguese E. xVfrica : Delagoa Bay. 



Described from thirty-eight specimens. 



This species, for which a MS. name of Faust^s has been 

 retained, is nearly allied to P. punctifrons, Boh. { = obesus, 

 Boh.), but in that species the rostrum is almost parallel- 



