1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. 127 



thorace flavo testaceo ; elytris ruguloso pu?ictatis. antennis pedibusque 

 sub-rufescentibus . 



Long. 6-8, lat. \-2\ mm . 



Head very dark-green, closely punctured, nearly hairless, palpi and 

 antennas sub-rufescent ; prothorax convex, yellowish-red, hardly longer 

 than broad, attenuated posteriorly, faintly impressed longitudinally in 

 the centre ; elytra elongated, rounded behind, slightly shagreened, 

 covered with a fine greyish villosity Avithout any trace of raised lines 

 underside almost black, briefly tomentose, legs sub-rufescent. 



Allied to Z. viridipennis, Fabr. and Z. rujiceps, Pering., the colour 

 of the elytra is much darker-green, and the last three abdominal 

 segments are black instead of yellowish as in viridipennis, the colour 

 of the head differentiates it from ruficeps. 



Transvaal (Leydenburg) and Zululand (Eshowe). 



Family : CURCULIONID^E. 

 Tribe : TANYMECIDtE. 



Enicodertjs, new. gen. near Siderodactylus. 



Head short, moderately convex, eyes round, rostrum a little 

 narrower than the head at the base and longer, expanding at the apex 

 (in a broad triangle in the male) and with five carinas in the upper 

 part ; antennas of Siderodactylus with the club very acuminated and 

 the scapus hardly reaching the eyes ; prothorax ovate, very convex ; 

 elytra elongated, not broader than the prothorax at the base, those of 

 the male nearly linear, the female's slightly ampliated ; tibias crenu- 

 lated inwardly, the anterior ones falcate, tarsi long. 



E. thoracicus. spec. nov. / 



Elongatus, niger, indumento brunneo squamisque albidis adspersis 

 vestitus ; rostro in mare ad apicem valde dilatafo, supra 5 carinato ; 

 prothorace rotundato, disco in gibbis duabus, granulatis fasciculosis- 

 que producto ; elytris elongatis, ovatis, late seriato-punctatis, squamis 

 albidis densioribus balteatis ; tibiis totis valde crenatis, pedibus 

 setulosis. 



Long. 10,11 lat. 2^-3 mm . 



Elongated, black, covered with a dark-brown indumentum and with 

 some scattered silvery-white scales ; rostrum of the male triangularly 



