58 Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Bostrum elevated into a transverse callus at the base, the dorsal 

 margins bluntly angulated about middle, the disk slightly excavated 

 and with an elongate obtuse median tubercle in the basal half. 

 Prothorax slightly convex and rugosely scrobiculate, vvith a trans- 

 verse impression near apex, which is divided by a short central 

 carina, with sometimes an additional small carina on each side of it ; 

 the apical margin forming an obtuse callus, but not bilobate 

 posteriorly nor elevated above the level of the disk ; sides with a 

 short conical tubercle and a few smaller tubercles above it. Elytra 

 quite similar to those of H. spinifer, Fahr., but with the tubercles 

 generally more blunt ; the external row has usually six tubercles 

 but sometimes seven. 



Oeange Colony : Bothaville and Eeddersburg {Dr. H. Brauns). 

 "■ Natal " — teste Pascoe. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum ; type of L. ovis in the British 

 Museum. 



Pascoe's species differs from the type only in its smaller size, 

 the absence of the frontal carina (an unstable character) aud its 

 more blunt lateral tubercle on the prothorax. The mesosternal 

 tubercle is present in the type, but in two of my specimens it has 

 quite disappeared. , 



4. HOPLITOTRACHELUS PROLES, Kolbe. 



H. proles, Kolbe, I.e. p. 259. 



Long. 8-llf ; lat. 4^-61 mm. 



Head convex on vertex and with deep remote punctures, the 

 superciliary ridges moderately elevated, the forehead with two 

 shallow impressions and sometimes a central carina. JRostrum 

 acuminate and scarcely elevated at the base, the dorsal margins 

 obtusely angulated about middle, the disk with a large and deep 

 fovea in the basal half and a shallower one near the apex. Prothorax 

 convex, rugosely scrobiculate, with two very large and deep sub- 

 apical foveae which are separated by a narrow carina ; the apical 

 margin forming only a narrow callus which is not bilobate pos- 

 teriorly ; sides with an acute conical tubercle and a few blunt 

 tubercles above it. Elytra ovate, irregularly and very rugosely 

 foveate, each with five rows of tubercles, those in the alternate rows 

 being evidently larger, especially in the external row, which contains 

 five or six tubercles. 



"Zanzibar {Hildehrandt) " — teste Kolbe. German E. Africa: 

 Lindi [Dresden Mus.] . Nyasaland : Masuku Mts. (A. Whyte). 

 Mashonaland : Mazoe, Salisbury, Umtali and Mt. Chirinda 

 [G. A. K. M.). Matabeleland : Matopos (P. A. Sheppard). 



