Curculionidte/rowi SoufJi Africa. 551 



S. KiioDESiA : Umtali, xii. 1900 (G. A. K. M .) ; Bulawayo, 

 xii. 1919 {A. J. T. Janse, tvpe) ; Sawmills, xii. 1921 [Dr. G. 

 Arnold). Transvaal: White River, xii. 1906 {H. Fry). 

 OiiANGE Free State : Liudeque Drift, xii. 1905 [H. Fry). 



Described from ten specimens. 



Among the species of Balaninus described from Sontli 

 Africa, the following must certainly be referred to the geiins 

 Timola, Pasc. (188tt) : — allwvarius, Fhs., apicalis, Fhs., 

 hispidiis, Fhs., murhiKS, Yhs., notatus,Yhs.,stri(/i7^osi7'is,Yhs.y 

 and suturalis, Gyl. (genotype). 



Subfamily Cryftorrhtxcrinm. 

 Ociadius vau, sp. n. (PL V. fig. 6.) 



(^ ? . Integument red-brown, with the prothorax and the 

 disk of the elytra more or less black ; the prothorax with 

 thin, recumbent, white set?e ; the elytra with a pattern 

 formed of short white setiform scales that are easily abraded : 

 a common broad basal patch extending on each side to stria 3 

 (sometimes triangular in shape) ; a small patch at the base 

 of intervals 5 and 9 ; a stripe starting at the base of interval 

 7 and continuing parallel with the lateral margin to the 

 suture on the declivity ; a common V-shaped mark on the 

 disk, the apex being produced backwards along the suture 

 to join the transverse band on the declivity. 



Head finely aciculate, with very large shallow confluent 

 punctures, and with sparse recumbent long white or yellow 

 setae, the three rostral carinse extending shortly on to the 

 forehead. Rostrum with three dorsal carinse and four deep 

 punctate sulci, the carinse reaching the middle (c?) or 

 extending a little beyond it ( cT ) ; the outer sulci reaching 

 the apex, the inner pair distinctly shorter and converted (in 

 $ ) into a row of disconnected punctures towards the apex ; 

 the ? with a row of separate punctures in the basal half above 

 the scrobe, which in the J coalesce to form a shallow furrow ; 

 towards the apex there are a few long erect setse in the (^ 

 only. AntenncB testaceous ; the funicle with joint 1 evidently 

 longer than 2, 2-6 longer than broad, and 7 slightly trans- 

 verse. Prothorax subconical, slightly rounded at the sides, 

 and shallowly constiicted at the apex, set with large deep 

 punctures that are longitudinally confluent ; the intervals 

 between the punctures forming somewhat irregular, narrow, 

 impunctate carinse, the median one being straight and 

 slightly higher than the others ; most of the punctures with 

 stout, recumbent, white or yellowish sette, a few^ containing 

 longer finer erect sette. Elytra subglobose, smooth, rather 



