542 J)i\ G. A. K.MavshsiW on new 



differs in the two liorn-like prominences at the base of the 

 rostrum and the lateral tubercles on the prothorax ; joint 2 

 of the funicle is much longer than 1, and the rerpaining 

 joints longer than broad; the head is strongly narrowed in 

 front and longitudinally striate above, the scaling being flat 

 and not honeycombed, etc. 



Trachi/pMoeus hardenbergi, sp. n. (PI. V. fig. 8.) 

 c^ $ . Integument black, densely clothed above and below 

 with small brown scales intermingled with an earthy 

 indumentum. 



Head appearing almost flat on the forehead and with a 

 low elevation over each eye ; but when scraped it is con- 

 cave, longitudinally striate, with a median sulcus and a 

 high crest above each eye, and it is separated from the 

 rostrum by a sharply angulated furrow that is normally 

 concealed. Rostrum as broad as the head, nearly as long as 

 broad, with the sides quite straight and parallel ; the dorsal 

 area broad and parallel-sided, slightly overhanging the 

 scrobes at the sides, and normally almost flat, but when 

 scraped appearing deeply excavated longitudinally, with a 

 slight median carina in the basal half; the scrobes con- 

 tinued broadly and deeply right up to the eyes ; the mentura 

 with only two discal setse. Antennce with the scape broad, 

 slightly curved, gradually widened towards the apex, 

 squaraose, and with short, recumbent, scale-like setse ; the 

 funicle with joint 1 as long as 2-f 3, joints 3-7 equal and 

 strongly transverse ; the club not broader than the funicle. 

 Prothorax half as broad again as long, strongly rounded at 

 the sides, widest at the middle, and constricted at the apex, 

 the constriction continued across the dorsum as a shallow 

 impression ; the apex truncate, the base arcuate ; the dorsum 

 very convex transversely and somewhat uneven, and when 

 scraped very rugosely sculptured, the indumentum being- 

 very thick; the set^e short, scale-like, carina' e, and sub- 

 recumbent. Etytra subquadrate, deeply sinuate at the base, 

 sinuately dilated from the base to the prominent subhumeral 

 angulation, thence almost parallel-sided to far beyond the 

 middle, and broadly subtruncate at the apex, as seen directly 

 from above, the posterior declivity being almost perpen- 

 dicular ; the dorsum with intervals 3, 5, 7 slightly more 

 raised than the others, and 2 and 4 each bearing a low 

 rounded prominence at the summit of the declivity ; when 

 scraped the shallow^ stria3 are seen to contain large quadrate 

 punctures ; the setae like those on the pronotum and more 

 numerous on the elevated intervals. Legs: the tibise with 

 an apical fringe of five or six very short, closely set spines, 



