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Show 128 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON COLEOPTERA [Jan. 19, a pale depressed seta ; scaling brown, with three narrow and indistinct paler lines. Elytra very short, ovate, sides strongly rounded, broadest before middle, acuminate behind ($), shoulders rounded, apical processes absent. Upper surface rather convex, striae with rows of shallow subreticulate fovea?, intervals evenly raised and with lax-ge, very depressed, shiny, distant gx-anules, which bear depressed pale seta?; scaling not very flense, yellowish brown. L,egs with scattered pale scaling, forming a denser x-ing at apex of femora; postexior tax-si with tlxe three basal joints of about tlxe same width, 2nd and 3rd subequal in length, 1st longer. C A P E COLONY. T Y P E in the British Museum. 125. H. INCERTUS Mshl. (Plate IV. fig. 10.) //. incertus Mshl. 1. c. p. 454 (1902). Long. 10, lat. 4| m m. Head with dense brown scaling, vertex convex and closely punctured, fox-ehead stx-ongly depressed, indistinctly punctured and without a fovea or carina; anteocular- furrows obsolete. Rostrum not incised at base, short and thick, about as long as prothox-ax only, scax-cely curved and strongly dilated to apex. Upper surface with a stout basal tubercle, which has its sides subparallel and its apex sharply bifid; anterior pax-t slightly excavated, closely punctured, and with a narrow but distinct central carina which ascends the tubex-cle ; latex-al sulci meeting at base, the upper pair broad and shallow, tlxe lower nairower and deeper ; scrobes latex-al and curved ; inferior basal furrow broad and deep. Antennce with scape reaching tlxe postex-ior max-gin of eye ; the second joint of funicle rather longer than first. Prothorax transverse, its length equal to tlxe width of both base and apex, sides x-ormded, broadest about middle, dorsal anterior mar-gin truncate, ocular lobes feeble. Upper sux-face convex, fairly closely set with small sepax-ated conical tubex-cles, ax-x-anged in more or less irx-egular longitudinal rows and leaving a naxrow central furrow without any carina ; tubercles black, shiny, and each with a depx-essed dark sefa, the interstices with uniform brown scaling. Elytra ovate, shoulders sloping, sides distinctly rounded, broadest before middle, $ more acuminate posteriorly than S ; apical processes absent. Upper surface convex, with faint stria? containing rows of indistinct punctures, sometimes separated by minute granules; intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 with regular and complete rows of gx-anxrles ; intervals 2, 4, and 6 without any, or at most a few isolated, gx-anules ; granules black, shiny, each with a depressed dark seta; scaling thin, uniform brown. Legs black, with sparse brownish-grey scaling and a paler ring near apex of femora; posterior tar-si with the 3rd joint rather broader than the other two, 2nd and 3rd subequal, 1st longer. M A S H O N A L A N D : Salisbury, Marandella's. T Y P E in the Bx-itish Museum. Fx-om the other long-scaped species having a rostral tubercle, |