Coleojpteroiis Sub-Family ByrsopincB (Curculionidce). 77 



Type in the Stockholm Museum. 



The type, a <^ , has lost all its tarsi, and these organs are there- 

 fore described from the only other specimen which I have seen, 

 namely, a ? in the British Museum. The species is closely aUied 

 to lutosa, Gyl., from which it differs only in the characters given in 

 the Key. 



15. Byesops hottentotta, Boh. 



B. hottentottus, Boh., I.e. p. 400 (1842). 



" Of the same shape as B. lutosa and closely resembling it, but 

 somewhat larger, sparsely dusted with grey scales, the thorax not 

 foveolate anteriorly, and the tubercles of the elytra less elevated 

 and obtuse. 



** Head short, broad, obsoletely and remotely punctured, black and 

 with scarcely any grey indumentum. Bostrum longitudinally im- 

 pressed in the middle, remotely punctured and with sparse grey 

 indumentum. Thorax subquadrate, its sides scarcely ampliated; 

 upper surface slightly convex, constricted and transversely impressed 

 near the apex, coarsely and closely punctured throughout, with an 

 obsolete dorsal impression behind, black and with sparse grey indu- 

 mentum. Elytra ovate, obliquely ampliated from the base, the 

 shoulders obtusely rounded ; upper surface convex, with large deep 

 punctures which are irregular dorsally but arranged in rows laterally ; 

 sparsely covered with grey indumentum ; on each elytron there are 

 three rows of slightly elevated and obtuse tubercles, one in the 

 middle of the disk, another external, and the third close to the 

 suture, the last being slightly abbreviated anteriorly. 



" Capfraeia (Echlon and Zeyher)." 



Type missing, in Ecklon and Zeyher' s collection. 



I have seen only one specimen (in the British Museum) which 

 appears to agree fairly well with the above description, as adapted 

 from Boheman. The essential characters which distinguish the 

 species from lutosa are the impressed rostrum, the non-foveolate 

 thorax, and the regular lateral punctuation on the elytra. 



16. Byesops hopei, Boh. 



B, hopei, Boh., Schonh. Gen. Cure, vi., 2, p. 399 (1842). 



B. bisignata, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 47. 



B. mendica, Pasc, Trans. Ent. Soc. L. 1887, p. 326. 



Long. 5-11 ; lat. 2f-5f mm. 



Colour earthy brown or grey, elytra usually with an irregular 

 scutellar marking and a subquadrate median sutural patch of velvet- 

 brown scaling. 



