Mr. T. V. Wollaston on two new Rhynchophorous Insects. 21 Iseteque pictum ; prothorace ad latera spina media parva instructo ; antennis pedibusque breviter cinereo-pubescentibus, illis nigre-scentibus corpore lougioribus, his ferrugineis. Long. Corp. Q-7 lin. Habitat "ad varies frutices spinosos regionis littoralis." — Dom. Welwitsch. T. cylindricum, angustum. Caput flavo-albidum, linea frontali trans-versa inter antennas oculosque (utrinque extra oculos producta) nec-non plaga postica longitudinali triangulari centrali atris. Prothorax antice et postice capitis latitudine, ad latera utrinque paulo rotnn-datus et spina media minutissima instructus, mox ante basin leviter tranversim constrictus ; flavo-albidus, linea latissima dorsali atra notatus ; margine basali trisinuato. Elytra parallela, flavo-albida, sutura, apice, fasciis duabus magnis profunde dentatis (so. subapicali et postmedia), per marginem exteriorem anguste connexis, maculis duabus parvis subsuturalibus (sc. antemedia et sub-basali) in lineara suturalem evanescentibus, necnon duabus versus humeros, omnibus in utroque positis, atris ornata. Antenna nigrescentes, sed brevis-sime et tenuissime cinereo-pubescentes, corpore (prsesertim in sexu foemineo) longiores. Pedes ferruginei, brevissime cinereo-pubes-centes. A beautiful and most elegant Longicorn, and one which ap-pears to be quite distinct from every species of the genus, or of Tragocephala, which has hitherto been described. It seems to be somewhat allied to the T. gracilicornis of Chevrolat, from Port Natal. I am glad to have an opportunity of dedicating it to my excellent friend Dr. F. Welwitsch, whose vast botanical researches are likely to throw much light on the flora of that interesting region, and by whom the insect has been lately dis-covered. Lisboa, de Noverabro de 1861. V. — On two new Rhynchophorous Insects from Angola. By T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. Having lately received from the Barao do Castello de Paiva a small but valuable consignment of Coleoptera collected by Dr. C. Welwitsch at Angola, I have selected the following two spe-cies, from a family in which I am more peculiarly interested, that I may append them to the paper of my learned friend, as some slight recognition of his varied services in the cause of science. And I feel glad, at the same time, to be permitted to couple with his name that of so acute and eminent a naturalist as Dr. Welwitsch, whose labours in this most interesting and but little-known region of Western Africa have been pursued with un-wearied diligence for many years.
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