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anterior portion depressed and with three very deep foveas, of which 

 the centre one is the narrowest ; the sides with very deep scattered 

 punctuation. Elytra oblong, shoulders with a very prominent 

 tubercle, sides scarcely rounded, apical declivity rather abrupt; 

 punctato-sulcate, the sutural and the four lateral sulci regular, the 

 intermediate ones irregular ; intervals 4, 6 and the apical half of 2 

 bearing numerous sharply conical tubercles, those at the summit of 

 the declivity being scarcely larger than the others, interval 2 with 

 the basal half carinate, 3 with a short very high basal carina, 5 with 

 a large and prominent humeral tubercle. Legs with dense brown 

 scaling and numerous black and white setae ; tarsi elongate, stout 

 and very setose, posterior pair with joint 1 equal to, or slightly 

 longer than, 2, the latter longer than broad. 



Cape Colony: Hex Eiver {L. Peringuey). 



Type in the British Museum. 



Allied to B. hopei, Boh., but distinguished by its more elongate 

 thorax, which is more deeply foveate anteriorly and has the ocular 

 lobes more dilated; the elytra are also more elongate, the basal 

 carina on interval 3 higher and less oblique, the lateral punctuation 

 is more regular, and the second joint of the intermediate tarsi is not 

 transverse. 



Pescribed from three very uniform examples, the two co-types 

 being in the South African Museum. 



19. Byesops verrucosa, sp. nov. 

 Plate VI., fig. 4. 



Long. Bi-ll ; lat. 3i-5i mm. 



Colour black, with dense dark-brown scaling, the apices of the 

 tubercles often paler ; the upper surface with scattered short thick 

 setae. 



Head with very large shallow punctures and usually with two 

 short oblique frontal carinae. Bostrum shallowly bisulcate towards 

 the base and with a faint central carina. Prothorax as long as or 

 slightly longer than broad, sides scarcely rounded, shallowly con- 

 stricted anteriorly and not laterally dilated at apex ; upper surface 

 convex posteriorly and deeply trifoveate in the subapical impres- 

 sion, with large shallow punctures and a broad shallow central 

 furrow which is subinterrupted in the middle and bounded on each 

 side by a low carina; sides with very large separated punctures. 

 Elytra oblong, shoulders broad, with a prominent rounded tubercle, 

 sides almost straight, the apical declivity rather abrupt ; upper 

 surface very irregularly punctured, with three rows of large and 



