C II rculi on 'h' IV //•(>??* South Africa. 519 



continuously pale fawn, a variable row of pale spots on 

 interval 1, and a large triangular pale patch at the apex of 

 each elytron enclosing a black spot; a small black patch 

 round the scutelhun, a rather larger one on each shoulder, 

 and some irregular and indefinite black spots between the 

 pale bands and on the declivity. 



Head convex, rugi^sely ])unctate^ and with very elongate 

 scales, which do not entirely conceal the integument; the 

 forehead about as broad as the antennal club, with an 

 elongate mediau fovea and with the scales densely over- 

 lapping and obliquely raised. Rostrum about as long as the 

 pronotum, gradually widened from base to apex, coarsely 

 and confluently punctate, with a rather broad, low, smooth 

 median carina, and clothed wdth transverse setiform scales. 

 Antennce red-brow^n ; the scape gradually clavate and 

 sparsely setose; the funicle with the two basal joints equal, 

 the remainder about as long as broad or slightly transverse. 

 Frothorax twice as broad as long, strongly rounded at the 

 sides, widest close to the base, and rapidly narrowed in front ; 

 the apex sinuate, the base feebly arcuate, and the longitudinal 

 outline strongly convex ; the dorsum with close, even, reticu- 

 late punctatiou throughout ; the scales linear, emarginate at 

 the apex, and not entirely hiding the integument, especially 

 in the darker median area. Elytra oblong-ovate, truncate 

 at the base, parallel-sided from the shoulders to beyond the 

 middle, and broadly rounded behind ; the dorsal outline 

 gently convex and deepest about the middle ; the striae fine, 

 but becoming rather deeper behind, the separated punctures 

 showing through the scaling and each containing a minute 

 horizontal seta; the intervals broad and even, flat on the 

 disk, slightly convex towards the sides and apex, and without 

 rows of setse ; the scales linear, subtruncate, slightly over- 

 lapping, but not entirely concealing the integument. Legs 

 black, with dense linear pale scales, the tarsi red-brown. 

 Venter : anal ventrite of S '^^'ith two widely separated tufts 

 of hairs on the apical margin. 



Length 7-8'0 mm., breadth 3*75-4'5 mm. 



Nyasaland : Cholo, 1919 [R. C. Wood). Portugue e 

 E. Africa: Caia, Zambesi R., ix.-xi. 1910 (Dr. H. Sivale, 

 type). Natal: Kraantzkloof, 1903 {H. Bell Hurley) -, 

 Duiban, ix. 1913 (Marley). 



Described from thirteen specimens. 



The two Natal specimens have the general brown scaling 

 much lighter than in the typical form, so that the pale 

 markings appear much less conspicuous ; they have also a 

 broad median brown stripe on the apical half of the venter. 



This is the only species of the genus as yet known from 



