534 Dr. G. A. K. Marsliall 



on neio 



with the shoulders obtusely rounded and very prominent, 

 and there much broader than the base of the prothorax ; 

 the dorsum with shallow, distinctly punctate strise, the 

 punctures becoming much finer towards the top of the 

 declivity; the intervals broad and almost plane; the scales 

 very short-ovate or almost circular, small and not quite 

 contiguous^ like those on the thorax but a little smaller; 

 the setse more than twice as long as the scales, flattened, 

 and not entirely recumbent, there being two irregular rows 

 on each dorsal interval. Legs black, with the tarsi red- 

 brown^ moderately densely clothed with narrow elongate 

 pale scales and scale-like setae ; the front tibiae with verj^ 

 short apical spines and none on the outer edge, the hind 

 pair with the corbels bare. 



Length 3"75-4*8 mm._, breadth l'8-2*25 mm. 



Tkansvaal : Pretoria, xii. 1921 (/. C Faure, type). 

 Natal : Charlestown, iv. 1897 {A. E. Haviland). 



Described from thirteen specimens. 



Most nearly allied to P. (Sirophosomus) ambiguus, Fhs., 

 which, however, has the prothorax more transverse, less 

 narrowed behind, and much more finely punctate; the 

 elytra are more oblong-ovate, the scales on them are elon- 

 gate and the setae are so like them as to be practically 

 indistinguishable. 



Piwtosirophus purcellif sp. n. (PI. V. fig. 2.) 



Integument black, densely clothed above with pale isabel- 

 line scaling mingled with pale grey scales ; the pronotum 

 with a broad median brown band and a narrower one on 

 each side of it in the basal half only ; the elytra with very 

 variable rows of brown spots along the striie, these being 

 usually most conspicuous in strise 4-6 and sometimes in- 

 vading most of the dorsum; the lower surface with dense 

 pale grey scaling. 



Head separated from the rostrum by a deep curved furrow 

 in the middle only, gently convex and with a deep longi- 

 tudinal median furrow ; the setae brown, spatulate and 

 subrecumbent ; eyes acutely produced backwards, with 

 their greatest depth slightly behind the middle. Rostrum 

 much shorter than its basal width, rapidly narrowing in 

 front, with its sides gently sinuate; the dorsum almost flat, 

 with a very shallow median rounded impression in the 

 anterior half and a faint longitudinal one on each side, 

 without any furrow or carina ; the scaling entirely con- 

 cealing the integument. Ant ennce y^'iih ]o\iii 1 of thefunicle 



