428 Transactions oj the South African Philoso^phical Society. 



Long. 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony; Priska (Pm-cell, S. Afr. Mus. and Coll. Dist.). 



Allied to *S'. cHhiops, Dist., but differing by the more carinate elytra. 



SiNALDA NEBULOSA, sp. n. (Tab. VIII., fig. 4). 



Head fuscous, antennae brownish-ochraceous with the apex 

 fuscous ; pronotum brownish-ochraceous, the margins paler, the 

 discal carinae fuscous ; scutellum piceous ; elytra dirty stramineous 

 with fuscous mottlings, arranged in spots on the costal area, the 

 raised transverse lines fuscous ; body beneath piceous ; femora 

 piceous, their apices and the tibiae luteous, apices of tibiae and the 

 tarsi fuscous ; head above with robust spines, of which the most 

 prominent are one at apex, porrect, one on each side in front of 

 antennae, also porrect, one on each side behind antennae and one 

 discal, obliquely erect ; pronotum very obscurely punctate, with the 

 lateral areas a little convexly ampliated towards the posterior angles, 

 the lateral margin a little upwardly sublaminate, the three central 

 carinations very pronounced, a distinct constriction a little before 

 anterior margin ; elytra with the discoidal a little wider than the 

 subcostal area ; discoidal area with a straight transverse raised line 

 before middle, and two oblique raised lines at apex, subcostal area 

 with three more obscure raised lines. 



Long. 2j- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony ; Grahamstown (Albany and British Mus.). 



AsTOLPHOS, gen. nov. 



Head long, aboi*it as long as pronotum, somewhat longly produced 

 in front of antenniferous tubercles, but not spined at apex, a small 

 spine on each lateral margin in front of eyes, antennae with the first 

 and second joints minute, together shorter than apical joint ; eyes 

 prominent, subsessile ; pronotum tricarinate, the central carination 

 continuous, the other two indistinct, and not extending beyond 

 anterior area of pronotum, anterior margin profoundly concavely 

 sinuate, the anterior angles porrectly subangulate, distinctly trans- 

 versely constricted about one-third behind anterior margin, whence 

 the lateral margins are almost straightly oblique to lateral angles 

 which are subprominent and subangulate ; posterior margin trun- 

 cate ; scutellum exposed ; elytra broad, the areas well defined, in 

 shape and structure much as in Plmtnoiiia ; rostrum apparently 

 reaching the posterior coxae, but imperfectly seen in a carded 

 specimen. 



Allied to Pliatnoma, but differing by the large and non- anteriorly 

 spined head, c^c. 



