CLirculioiii(li\3//'0/>z SmiIIi Africa. 5;);") 



nmcli longer and thicker than 2, and joints 3-7 transverse. 

 PruthoriLv about lialt' as broad a<;ain as lon;_% gradually 

 widenino- from the apex to behind the middle, where there 

 is a sharp prominent angle, and then rapidly narrowed to 

 the base,^vhi(•h is truncate; the front margin very shallovvly 

 sinuate in the middle and more deeply so behind each eye, 

 the anterior angles being obliquely rounded off ; the dorsuni 

 strongly convex transversely and almost flat longitudinally, 

 \vith a shallow transverse impression right across the base 

 and often a much fainter one near the apex, also a feeble 

 median longitudinal furrow, sometimes just visible through 

 the sealing, which otherwise conceals all the scul[)ture. 

 Elytra oval, widest about middle, broadly rounded behind, 

 jointly truncate at the base, but with the basal angles pro- 

 jecting obliquely forwards ; when the scaling is intact the 

 striae are almost concealed, the punctures appearing very 

 minute and separated from each other by the length of two 

 or three scales ; the intervals broad and smooth, and each 

 with a row of short, stout, recumbent, brown setae ; the scales 

 irregularly tetragonal, closely contiguous, and of the same 

 size as those on the pronotum. Leys with five or six stout 

 brown a})ical spines on the front tibicC and two juxtaposed a 

 little way up the dorsal edge; the hind pair with the corbels 

 densely squamose. 



Length 5'3-3*6 mm., breadth 1'8-1*9 mm. 



Cape Province : Hope Town (^. F. Pur cell). 



Described from six specimens. 



Distinguished from the other species of the genus having 

 a similarly angulate prothorax by the squamose corbels of 

 the hind tibiie. 



Protostrophus sebakuanus, sp. n. 



^ $ . Integument bhick, the [)ronotum with the front 

 hiargiu red-bro^n, densely clothed with uniform grey 

 sealing, but the scales towards the apex of the rostrum wiili 

 a pale green or coppery reflection. 



Head se[)ai'ated from the rostrum by a deep furrow, which 

 is curved strongly forwards in the middle and extends to 

 the sides; the forehead flattened, with a broad and very 

 deep median furrow, and set with suberect flattened sette ; 

 the eyes strongly produced backwards and with the greatest 

 depth behind the middle. Rostrum somewhat shorter than 

 its basal width, much narrowed in front, with the sides 

 gently sinuate ; the dorsum (juite flat, without impressions, 

 and with only a (ine median carina; clothed like the head, 



