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dilated at the apex with the sides raised, that of the female much less 

 dilated, and with five carinas, one median and two flexuose on each 

 side ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as the head, round, strongly 

 granulated, and produced on the disk in two very high diverging pro- 

 tuberances fasciculated with white hairs at the tip ; in the female 

 those protuberances are not so much raised, but they are also fascicu- 

 lated ; elytra elongated, not broader than the prothorax, nearly linear 

 in the male, a little ampliated in the female, convex, deeply striato- 

 punctate with a few rigid short hairs alongside the suture, and having 

 : a supra marginal band of dense silvery-white scales ; the suture is 

 also squamose ; the tibiaa are strongly crenated and the legs setulose. 

 Little Namaqualand (O'okiep). 



Timus. new gen. 



Head small, rounded, rostrum not broader than the head, straiglat 

 and a little longer, antennas moderately short with the scapus not 

 reaching the eyes, the articulations closely set, the club oblongo-ovate 

 and very acuminated ; eyes ovate, slightly prominent and with a small 

 orbital ridge ; prothorax globose with the sides ampliated in the 

 middle ; elytra elongated, convex, nearly parallel in the male, tibia* 

 dented inwardly. 



Allied to Enicoderus, but differentiated by the shape of the 

 antennas, the articulations of which are shorter and less slender. 



T. SIMPLEX. 



Niger, squamis griseis dense tectus ; capite rostroque breviter setosis 

 prothorace gibboso, supra deplanato, rugose granulato, in medio canali- 

 culato lateribusque ampliatis ; elytris prothorace a?igustioribus, sub- 

 cylindricis, postice angustatis, profunde seriato-punctatis, lateribns 

 squamis densiorihus albidis sub-balteatus ; pedibus setulosis. 



Long. 9, lat. 2 mm . 



Black, densely covered with greyish scales ; rostrum and head with 

 short, rigid bristles ; prothorax with the sides much ampliated and the 

 disk raised, moderately plane on the gibbosity, very strongly granu- 

 lated and with a narrow median groove ; elytra narrower thau the 

 prothorax, sub-cylindrical, narrowed apical ly, deeply siriato-punctate 

 and with a lateral band, more or less denned, of whiter and denser 

 scales ; legs and tarsi setulose, all the tibiae serrated inwardly. 



Cape Colony (Van Wyk's Vley), Namaqualand (O'okiep). 



