235 FOUR NEW INJURIOUS WEEVILS FROM AFRICA. By Guy A. K. Marshall. Eremnus fulleri, sp. nov. (fig. i). cJ $. Colour piceous, with, dense light earthy-brown scaling, usually with a very variable and often indistinct mottling of greyish and blackish scales ; the thorax with three indistinct paler stripes. Head very convex, separated from the rostrum by a broad, shallow impression, the finely rugose sculpturing quite hidden by the scahng ; forehead evidently narroAver than the rostrum and with no central fovea. Rostrum stout, about three-fourths the length of the prothorax, almost straight and parallel-sided ; a broad groove running backwards on each side from the scrobe to the eye, so that the centra] dorsal area is left as a broad parallel-sided ridge with a shallow impression in the middle ; the genae broadly impressed below the scrobe . Antennae with the scape rather slender and gradually clavate, clothed w4th dense scahng and appressed setae ; the funicle with joint 2 very slightly longer than 1. Prothorax evidently broader than long, especially in the $, the greatest wddth behind the middle, the sides strongly rounded, with a broad shallow constriction at the apex, which is much narrower than the base, the dorsal apical margin straight, the ocular lobes sHgh.t and with, very short vibrissae. Fig. 1. Eremnus fulleri, Mshl., ?. JScutellum minute, with dense pale scahng. Elytra broadly ovate in the $, narrower and more pointed behind in the (J, the basal margin rather deeply sinuate ; the striae and their shallow punctures almost entirely concealed by the dense scahng, the intervals almost plane, each. with, a single row of suberect scale-like setae, interval 7 with a very short elevated carina at the base which prevents the 7th stria from reaching the base and causes it to turn outwards into the 8th ; the scales are small, nearly circular, and shghtly imbricated. Legs densely clothed with pale scales and with broad recumbent setae, the femora without a tooth. Length, ^ 4-5-5, $ 5-5' 5 ; width, cJ 2-2-5, $ 2-5-3 mm. Orange Free State : Wepener (C. Fuller). The only other species of Eremnus with untoothed femora which has a similar humeral callus is E. humeralis, Fahr., which, can readily be distinguished from E.fulleri, among other characters, by the presence of small tubercles at the sides of
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