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24. Brachycerus verrucosus Ol. 
Hab. Little Namaqualand : Steinkopf, July 1904. 
25. Brachycerus tauriculus Sparrm. 
Hab. Windhuk, September 1903. (Recorded also from the whole Karro Region.) 
26. Brachycerus natalensis Fähr. var. 
Hab. Kalahari: Kanya, October 1904. 
27. Brachycerus apterus L. var. portentosus Per. 
Hab. Great Namaqualand: Kubub, April 1904. (Seems restricted to Little and Great Namaqualand 
whereas the var. granosus extends from the Great Karroo to Eastern Southern Rhodesia on one side and 
the Cunene River on the other). 
28. Brachycerus apterus L. var. granosus Gyll. 
Hab. Great Namaqualand: Kubub, April 1904; Kalahari: Bonche, January 1905. 
29. Brachycerus squalidus Fähr. 
Hab. Great Namaqualand : Aar Rivier near Kubub, April 1904. 
30. Brachycerus infitialis n. sp. 
Niger, indumento ochraceo nigroque variegatus; caput fronte in medio impressa, rüde punctatum, 
oculi depressi, supra carinulato-marginati, rostrum capite dimidio longius, modice arcuatum, lateribus basi 
vix angulatis, apicem versus dilatatum; antennae longitudine rostri; prothorax a basi longe pone medium 
rotundato-ampliatus, vix angulatus, latitudine postica fere duplo brevior, basi truncatus, apice strangulatus, 
supra convexus, in medio profunde canaliculatus anticeque perspicue impressus, foveolis profundis sub con- 
tiguis indumento fere omnino obtectis, tuberculis granulosis nonnullis lateralibus admixtis obsitus; elytra 
globosa humeris fere nullis, convexa, postice retusa, in dorso utrinque sexfariam tuberculata, tuberculis 
acervatis, posticis acutioribus, interstitiis foveato-reticulosis ; corpus subtus et pedes terreno-squamulosa; 
tibiae anticae perspicue in medio extus angulato-ampliatae. 
Long. 10 — II mm. Lat. 6 — 67 2 mm. 
This species belongs to the same group as B. margaritifer, Fähr and B. mouffleti Per.; it differs 
from the former in having the ampliation of the prothorax situated more towards the basal part, the rows 
of tubercles on the elytra are not so regulär, and the intervals in B. margaritifcr are not alveolate reticulate. 
In the last named species the anterior tibiae are not angulary ampliate outwardly in the centre. 
Hab. Hereroland: Okahandja, September 1903. 
31. Brachycerus hilaris n. sp. 
Niger, squamis griseo-albidis supra dense tectus, tuberculis omnibus glabris, nitidis ; caput brevissimum, 
a rostro anguste at profunde excisum, oculi ovati nonnihil convexi; rostrum capite fere quadruplo longius, 
