138 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
the apex; tarsi short and stout, spongy-pubescent beneath, joint 2 transverse, 3 widened and bilobed, the 
claws stout, divergent, and simple ; body oblong, robust ; vestiture consisting of long, decumbent hairs. 
A peculiar genus, which can be provisionally included in Lacordaire’s Groupe 
Storéides *, and recognizable by its oblong shape, large, transverse eyes, moderately 
stout rostrum, stout legs, straight, unarmed tibie, &c. The only insect I have seen at 
all like it is an unnamed Chilian form in the Pascoe Collection. 
1. Scybis pubescens, sp. n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 20, 20a, 0.) 
Oblong, robust, rather broad, moderately shining, clothed with long, decumbent, grey or yellowish-grey hairs ; 
nigro-piceous, the antenne and the tipsof the tarsi obscure ferruginous. Head closely punctate ; rostrum 
rugosely punctured, with a faint median carina towards the base, the eyes merely separated by a line of 
the same width; funiculus very slightly widening outwards, joint 2 a little shorter and more slender 
than 1, the others short and subequal in length. Prothorax transverse, rather convex, the sides rounded 
and rapidly converging from the middle to the apex, the hind angles rectangular, the surface closely, 
finely punctate. Elytra oblong, about one-third wider than the prothorax, somewhat flattened on the 
disc, the humeri rounded; deeply punctate-striate from the base to the apex, the interstices moderately 
convex, rugulose, and slightly wider than the strie. Beneath finely punctate. 
Length 44-54, breadth 2,5,-23 millim. 
Hab. Guatemaua, Torola and Capetillo (Champion). 
Three specimens, probably including both sexes, one of which is now without a- 
head. 
TERIRES, gen. nov. 
Rostrum stout, curved, cylindrical, about as long as the prothorax, with the scrobes lateral and descending to 
the base beneath; antennew inserted considerably before the middle of the rostrum, short, the funiculus 
7-jointed—joint 1 stout and obovate, the others short and very gradually widening, 2 small, 7 not half 
the width of the club,—the club ovate and pubescent; eyes large, strongly transverse, not prominent, 
narrowly separated beneath, coarsely facetted; prothorax transverse, truncate at the base and apex ; 
scutellum minute ; elytra oblong, truncate at the base, much broader than the prothorax, covering the 
pygidium ; prosternum extremely short, emarginate in front ; anterior coxa: contiguous ; ventral segments 
3 and 4 very short, the sutures straight; legs short ; femora moderately incrassate, unarmed ; tibie rather 
narrow, straight, unarmed at the tip; tarsi pubescent bencath, joint 3 widened and bilobed, 4 as long 
as the others united, the claws simple and divergent; body oblong-ovate, finely pubescent and setose. 
This genus includes a single species of small size, very like a Phyllotrox, but with 
large, strongly transverse, coarsely facetted, non-prominent eyes, the outer joints of 
the funiculus very like widened, &c. The straight, unarmed tibie, &c., separate it from 
Pachytychius. Terires can be included in the section “ Storeides” for the present, the 
straight ventral sutures notwithstanding. 
1. Terires pilosus, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 21, 21 a.) 
Oblong-ovate, a little flattened above, moderately shining, testaceous, finely pubescent, and with an abundant 
semiecrect setosity, which on the elytra is rather long and coarse and serially arranged. Rostrum 
* It has no affinity with the “ Amalactides,” placed immediately after the Erirrhina by Lacordaire, who 
mentions (Gen. Col. vi. p. 510) an undescribed species of Amalactus from Mexico, which is quite unknown 
to me. 
