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Group ERIRRHINA. 
As at present recognized, this group includes a great variety of forms, some with a 
long claw at the apex of the tibia, and others with the tibie unarmed, but all 
having simple tarsal claws, these being connate in the Smicronychina. In the 
Anthonomina the tarsal claws in nearly all the species are toothed or appendiculate. 
Sect. ERIRRHINIDES. 
GRYPIDIOPSIS, gen. nov. 
Rostrum stout, widening outwards, a little longer than the prothorax, almost straight, the scrobes lateral, 
descending to the lower anterior margin of the eyes, the anterior opening visible from above; antenne 
inserted near the apex of the rostrum, the scape long, the funiculus 7-jointed, joint 2 nearly as long as 1, 
the club ovate and pubescent; mandibles bifid; eyes large, lateral transverse, finely facetted; head 
convex ; prothorax transverse, convex, much narrower than the elytra, with broad ocular lobes; scutellum 
very small; prosternum rather short, emarginate in front, level in front of the anterior coxe, which are 
contiguous ; ventral segments 3 and 4 much shorter than 2 or 5, the sutures straight, 2-4 slightly 
produced at the outer apical angle ; femora clavate and armed towards the apex with a short acute tooth ; 
tibie: sinnous within, obliquely truncate at the apex, mucronate, and armed with a long claw at the inner 
apical angle ; tarsi villose, spongy-pubescent beneath, the third joint strongly bilobed, the claws simple 
and divergent ; body shaped much as in Procas and Girypidius ; vestiture consisting of short, fine, narrow 
scales. 
The single species referred to this genus has quite the facies of a Procas or 
Grypidius, from which it differs in the toothed femora, the comparatively short 
rostrum, &c. It is almost intermediate between the Hylobiids and the true 
Erirrhinids. 
1. Grypidiopsis variegatus, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 10, 10a, 3.) 
Subovate, rather broad, slightly shining, black, the antennew (the club excepted), the outer half of the tibia, 
and the tarsi obscure ferruginous; somewhat thickly clothed with narrow brownish-ochreous scales, the 
prothorax and elytra with small patches of cinereous scales intermixed. Head densely punctate, deeply 
foveate between the eyes ; rostrum rugosely punctured, longitudinally wrinkled, finely carinate down 
the middle ; eyes separated above by a little less than the width of the base of the rostrum ; joint 2 of the 
funiculus slightly longer than 3 and 4 united, the outer joints transverse and scarcely wider. Prothorax 
convex, transverse, much narrowed and slightly constricted in front, parallel behind, densely, finely 
punctate, with a narrow, smooth, shining space down the middle. Elytra somewhat triangular in shape, 
a little flattened on the disc, at the base more than one-half wider than the prothorax, with the apices 
conjointly produced and the obtuse humeri very prominent; coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices 
convex, rugulosely punctate, and here and there transversely connected. Beneath closely punctate, the 
first ventral segments broadly and shallowly depressed down the middle, 
Length 5,/,, breadth 23 millim. (<¢.) 
Hab. Mexico (Sallé). 
One specimen. 
