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Show 136 MR. G. A. K. MARSHALL ON COLEOPTERA [Jan. 19, Head closely and continently punctured and with sparse whitish scaling, vertex convex, forehead almost plane; anteocular furrows absent. Rostrum not incised at base, as long as head and prothorax, very little curved, dilated towards apex. Upper surface with five smooth narrow carina? of about equal height; lateral sulci distinct, tlxe upper pair longer and uniting at base; scrobes lateral, shallow and curved ; inferior basal furrow absent. Antennce with scape exceeding posterior margin of eye; tlxe first joint of funicle longer than second. Prothorax slightly broader than long, apex scarcely narrower than base, sides not much rounded, broadest befox-e middle, dorsal anterior margin truncate, ocular lobes feeble. Uppex- surface convex, closely set with low rounded granules, leaving a distinct central fur-row containing no carina; granules bare, with depressed pale seta?, tlxe interstices with greyish scaling, the centx-al furrow and a narrow latex-al line being white. Elytra narrowly ovate, broader in § and subacuminate towards apex, shoulders sloping, sides rounded, broadest before middle, apical processes absent. Upper sui'face convex, with regular shallow stria? containing rows of deep closely-set punctures; tlxe intervals evenly raised, slightly convex and quite smooth on disk, but with faint traces of granulation laterally; each interval with a row of depressed white seta?; the whole surface with moderately dense small white scaling, which is more or less denuded on intervals 3 and 7. Legs with fine whitish pubescence; posterior tarsi elongate, the 2nd joint rather narrower than the other two, 1st longer than 2nd, and 2nd than 3rdj in the <3 the 1st joint is longer and bx-oader than in tlxe § . " CAFFRARIA " (J. Wcthlberg). TYPE in the Stockholm Museum. 136. fH. SUBLINEATUS Gyl. H. sublineatus Gyl. Schh. Gen. Cure. v. p. 775 (1840). " Head rather large, subglobose, closely punctured, black with " white scaling; eyes ovate, black, slightly prominent. Rostrum " a little longer than head, very thick, curved, angulated, sub- " gibbose above, and with a shallow central furrow divided by a " small smooth carina, two latex-al sulci adjoining on either side, *' of which the upper ones are very deep, almost hidden towards " apex under the very nari-ow carina? which adjoin them internally, " and subconvergent towards base for the narx-ow dox-sal elevation; •' punctured throughout, black, sparsely squamose. Antennas •; medium, black. Thorax broader than long, a little narrower •'anteriorly, apex broadly emarginate, sides ampliated posteriorly, " base truncate. Upper surface slightly convex, scarcely or very " obsoletely sulcate, very closely set with low rounded txrbercles " bearing depressed pale seta?; black, the interstices with sparse "grey scaling. Scutellum small, triangular, black. Elytra " truncate anteriorly, a little broader- than the base of thorax, sides •' ampliated in front, attenuate behind, apices jointly bxrt sharply •"rounded, four times longer than the thox-ax. Upper surface *' convex, remotely striato-punctate, the punctures containing |