Coleopterous Suh-Family Byrsopince (CurculionidcB). 67 



Cape Colony. 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



Schonherr cites the type as being in Dr^ge's collection ; but 

 Prof. Aurivillius has kindly lent me an example which exists 

 in Schonherr's own collection, and which he considers (I think 

 rightly) should be regarded as the type, for it agrees entirely with 

 Boheman's description. I have seen only one other specimen, 

 which is in the British Museum. 



4. Byksops rana. Boh. 

 B. rana, Boh., I.e. p. 406 (1842). 

 B. terrena, Base, I.e. p. 328 (1887). 



Long. 5-6J ; lat. 2J-3f mm. 



Colour uniform earthy-brown above, inflexed margins of elytra 

 grey, sides of prothorax with an irregular white patch. 



Head obsoletely punctured and usually with a small tubercle on 

 each side near the superciliary ridge. Bostrum shallowly bisulcate, 

 the dorsal margins subcostate. ProtJiorax evidently broader than its 

 dorsal length, sides rounded, broadest rather behind middle, apex 

 not dilated ; upper surface convex, rugosely punctured (but the 

 punctures hidden by the scaling) and with scattered small granules, 

 with a shallow transverse impression near apex, but without fovese 

 or a central furrow ; sides with sparse shallow punctures. Elytra 

 ovate, the shoulders narrow and oblique in ^ , more broadly rounded 

 in 5> , sides ampliated, broadest about middle, apical declivity 

 rounded dorsally; upper surface with shallow sulci containing 

 rows of deep punctures, the first three rows regular, 4 and 5 usually 

 confused ; the intervals narrowly subcarinate, without basal calluses, 

 except 5 which has a short humeral carina, intervals 2 and 4 with a 

 few small tubercles behind middle, all being of equal size, 6 with a 

 longer row of more obtuse tubercles. Legs with grey scaling and 

 short pale setae ; tarsi long and slender, posterior pair with joint 1 

 rather longer than 2. 



Cape Colony. 



Type ^ in the Stockholm Museum ; type of terrena, Pasc, in the 

 British Museum. 



Pascoe's terrena is evidently the ? of Boheman's species. The 

 anal fovea is larger and shallower in the S" , and smaller and 

 deeper in the $ . Its comparatively smooth ovate elytra give 

 this species a rather distinctive appearance. I have seen examples 

 also from the Oxford and Paris Museums. 



