550 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on 7iew 



the African continent, and there are no characters which 

 justify its generic separation from the Madagascar forms. 

 Its general facies is quite that of C. nigrojnmctatus, Goiy. 



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Subfamily Balaninin^. 

 Timola posticata, sp. n. (PI. Y. fig. 10.) 



cJ $ . Integument piceous brown, the pronotum blackish ; 

 the head and protliorax rather thinly clothed with grey or 

 greyish-buff setiform scaling, the latter with three very 

 indefinite stripes formed of slightly denser scales, the darker 

 area on each side of the median stripe bearing scattered 

 brown scales ; the elytra with a little more than the basal 

 half of the disk clothed principally w^ith brown setiform 

 scales from stria 1 to 7, elsewhere grey or greyish buff, but 

 intervals 3-6 often with more or less light brown scaling on 

 the declivity, the front margin of the pale apical area being 

 deeply sinuate on each elytron. 



Rostrum strongly curved, with coarse, longitudinally con- 

 fluent punctures and a distinct median carina in the basal 

 half, and there thinly clothed with transverse setiform scales; 

 the punctures distinctly finer and sparser on the apical half, 

 but only slightly finer in the $ than in the (^ ; the antennal 

 insertion at ( $ ) or just beyond the middle ( c^ ) ; the length 

 only slightly less in the ^ ; mandibles with a laterally pro- 

 jecting blunt tooth at the base (sometimes obsolete) and a 

 similar downwardly projecting one below it. Antenna with 

 the scape gently curved and with a few setiform scales 

 towards the apex ; the funicle with the joints progressively 

 diminishing in length, but even the apical ones longer than 

 broad, and 1 a little longer than 2 and 3. Pi^othor ax broader 

 than long, subparallel-sided from the base to near the 

 ndddle, then narrowing rapidly and subtubulate at the apex; 

 the base bisinuate, the apex truncate dorsally and with 

 feeble postocnlar lobes ; the dorsum longitudinally rugulose, 

 the integument being clearly visible through the rather thin, 

 transverse, elongate, setiform scales. Scutellum with long, 

 dense, raised scales. Elytra ovate, widest at the rather 

 prominent rounded shoulders and rapidly narrowing to the 

 apices, which are slightly dehiscent ; the striae broad and 

 deep and with large deep elongate punctures, each containing 

 a long setiform scale on its anterior slope ; the intervals 

 finely rugulose, plane and broader than the striae. Legs 

 rather densely clothed with grey setiform scaling ; the 

 femora quite simple, all the tibiae with a short apical mucro. 



Length 6-7*5 mm., breadth 3-3'6 mm. 



