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Show 1904.] OF T H E GENUS HIPPORRHINUS. 75 Upper surface convex, with regular rows of very small granules; interval 1 with a row of small closely-set tubercles disappearing before apex; interval 2 with a row of distant low elongate tubercles, but those near apex very long and sharp; intervals 3 and 5 with single rows of smaller, rounded, and more closely-set tubercles, becoming very long, sharp, and curved towards apex; 4 and 6 devoid of tubercles, or with only a few isolated ones; 7 with a complete row of sharply conical tubercles, becoming longer ami more curved posteriorly; tubercles bare, often of a reddish-brown colour, with depressed dax-k seta-, the interspaces with fulvous scaling, the Suture and inflexed margins being white and the disk more or less variegated with white patches. Legs with scattered narrow white scales; posterior tarsi with the joints of the same width, 2nd and 3rd subequal in length, 1st longer. C A P E COLONY : Table Mt. {L. Peringuey), Koebexg. TYPES in the Stockholm Museum. This insect holds an intermediate position between globifer F. and insignis Fahr., approaching very closely to some of tlxe Eastern examples of the latter. Indeed it seems doubtful whether the examination of a long series would not render it necessary to regard all three as forms of one very variable species. 61. fH. INSIGNIS Fahr. H. insignis Fahr. Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. p. 206 (1871). H. zeyheri Boh. {inedit.). Long. 25-32, lat. 9^-12 mm. Head convex, with shallow punctuation and scattered white or f xrlvous scaling, forehead with a variable central stxia; anteocular furrows deep. Rostrum not incised at base, as long as head and prothorax, thick, crrrved and dilated towards apex. Upper surface plane or slightly convex at base, shallowly excavate near apex, with a broad smooth central line, which is sometimes faintly cai-inate, the sides being distinctly punctured and scattered with dai-k seta?; latex-al sulci not uniting at base, the upper pair obsolete, the lower paix- long and deep; scrobes deep, dixectecl beneath base of rostrum ; inferiox- basal furrow distinct. Antenuce with scape not xeaching eye; the two basal joints of funicle sub-equal. Prothorax slightly ti-ansverse, apex narrower than base, sides rounded, broadest about middle, dorsal anterior margin convex, ocular lobes well developed. Upper surface convex, moderately closely set with large rounded and rather elevated tubercles, leaving a distinct central fur-row containing a vexy faint carina and a narrow curved smooth lateral line on each side; tubercles bare, with depx-essed dark seta?, theintexstices with white or fulvous scaling, in the latter case the central and latex-al lines white. Elytra elongato-ovate, 5 slightly broader, shoulders sloping, sides not much rounded, broadest about middle, apical processes in both sexes stout, sharply conical and turned slightly upwards. Upper surface convex, with irregular, and often confused, rows of large granules; interval 1 with a row of small |