280 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
There is a single example (@) of this species in the Sallé collection, labelled as 
from Puebla. It differs from the European B. venosus, Grav., in having a much longer, 
slender rostrum, a stouter femoral tooth, &c. Dr. Horn‘ records B. nasicus as 
infesting acorns and hazel-nuts. 
3. Balaninus caryz. 
Balaninus carye, Horn, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc. 1873, p.460*; Blanch. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. 
pp. 107, 108%. 
Hab. Nortu America, Indiana! 2, Pennsylvania.—Mexico, Puebla (Sallé), Tasco (ex 
coll. Flohr). 
The two males received by us from Mexico do not appreciably differ from a North- 
American specimen of the same sex communicated by Mr. Wickham. JB. cary@ is very 
like the European B. nucum, Linn., but has a longer and more slender rostrum, and the 
suture of the elytra less prominent posteriorly, with the imbricate hairs finer and more 
numerous. It is known to attack hickory-nuts. 
4, Balaninus tropicalis, sp.n. (Tab. XIV. figg. 18, 18a, 2.) 
Robust, piceous, the antenne and rostrum reddish, somewhat thickly clothed with coarse flavo-cinereous 
pubescence, which on the elytra is mottled with brownish, the vestiture along the posterior half of the 
suture ochreous, longer, denser, and imbricate, the pygidium with a dense tuft of long brownish hairs. 
Head densely punctate ; rostrum slender, as long as the body, strongly curved beyond the middle, finely 
punctate at the base, the antennee inserted at about three-fourths from the tip, joint 1 of the funiculus 
much longer than 2, the scape as long as 1-3 united. Prothorax transverse, narrowed from the middle 
forwards and constricted in front, densely punctate. Elytra broad, subcordate, flattened on the disc 
anteriorly ; deeply punctate-striate, the interstices feebly convex and roughly punctulate. Femoral tooth 
small, its outer edge oblique; anterior tibiee strongly mucronate at the apex; tarsal claws broadly 
appendiculate.. 
Length 7, of the rostrum 7, breadth 34 millim. (9.) 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 feet (Champion). 
One female specimen, probably beaten from oak. Very similar to B. carye, but 
with the vestiture longer and coarser, the femoral tooth smaller, its outer edge not 
forming a right angle with the apex of the femur. The rostrum is greatly curved at 
the apex. 
Group LAMOSACCINA. 
Lémosacides, Lacordaire. Lemosaccini, Leconte. 
This group includes most of the exotic forms referred to Lemosaccus. The various 
species are closely related to Magdalis*, from which they are widely separated by 
Lacordaire. 
* In the British Museum there is a Chilian species (? Lemosaccus unicolor, Blanch.) that appears to belong 
to this genus, 
