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carinate at base, 5 with a short basal costa. Legs with dense 

 greyish white scaling, the tibiae and posterior pairs of femora varie- 

 gated with brown and bearing comparatively long pale setae; posterior 

 tarsi with joint 1 not longer than 2, the latter being twice as long 

 as broad. 



Cape Colony (Drege). 



Type missing ; in coll. Drege. 



I have seen only a single example (from the Stockholm Museum) 

 of this species. It was taken by Drege, but it is clearly not the type 

 which Schonherr returned to him. The absence of both the anterior 

 fovese and the central furrow is an unusual character in that section 

 of the genus which possesses a mesosternal prominence, but it is 

 possible that the species may prove to be only an extreme local 

 variation of B. lutosa, Gyl. 



14. Byrsops buccellaria, Gyl. 



B. buccellarius, Gyl., I.e. p. 409 (1834). 



Long. 8 ; lat. 4-4i mm. 



Colour black, with uniform brown scaling, the elytra with the 

 following dark velvet-brown markings : two narrow elongate patches 

 at base ; a large common subquadrate patch about middle, with its 

 posterior edge deeply emarginated, and a much narrower transverse 

 patch at the top of the declivity. 



Head obsoletely punctured, the ocular ridges strongly raised and 

 with the anterior end produced slightly inwards. Bostrum obsoletely 

 punctured and with the dorsal edges rounded. Prothorax dorsally 

 longer than broad, sides rounded, broadest about middle, scarcely 

 dilated at apex ; upper surface confluently punctured, with a broad 

 central furrow which is shallower in middle and without carinae 

 posteriorly, anterior transverse impression with three large and 

 deep foveae ; sides with deep distant punctures. Elytra oblongo- 

 ovate, shoulders with a tubercular prominence, sides scarcely 

 ampliated, posterior declivity rounded dorsally; striato-punctate, 

 but with only the sutural and two external striae regular, the inter- 

 vening space with confused subreticulate punctures ; intervals 6, 4 

 and the apical half of 2 with subconical tubercles, interval 2 with a 

 short basal costa covered with velvet-brown scales, 3 with an 

 elongate basal tubercle and 5 with a prominent humeral tubercle. 

 Legs with dense brown scaling variegated with darker brown spots 

 and with suberect pale setae ; posterior tarsi with joint 1 not longer 

 than 2, the latter twice as long as broad. 



Cape Colony {Westermann). 



