Mr. Kirpy’s Century of Insects. 431 
Antenne integre, capitate: clava triarticulata ; articulis arctis- 
sime connexis. 
Corpus oblongo-ovatum. 
Thorax subglobosus. 
The insect, which is the type of this genus, is altogether of the 
habit of the Curculionide fracticornes brevirostres, particularly Cur- 
culio asper, &c.: but its unbroken antennz place it. in this sec- 
tion, from all the genera of which it is foto celo different. I found 
it in a collection of New Holland insects which I once purchased. 
cristata. 69. Rh. . | 
: Pirate XXII. Fie. 9. 
Long. corp. (Rostro excluso) lin. 44. 
Habitat in Australasia. 
Corpus oblongo-ovatum, subtus- squamulis pallidum, supra gri- 
seum. Caput postice convexum, antice inter oculos crista 
squamoso-pallida tetragona: vertice quadruplici lobis subhe- 
misphericis. Rostrum capitis fere longitudine crassum, rec- 
tum, deflexum, tetragonum, levissimum, glaberrimum, niti- 
dum, nigrum, apice subtus utrinque dente triangulari acuto ar- 
matum, basi constrictum strangulatum, ante antennas eleva-- 
tum. Antenne rostro basi utrinque insidentes, articulo primo: 
reliquis paulo crassiori, longitudine secundi, his duobus excep- 
| tis, qui et subclavati, articuli reliqui longitudine fere æquales 
sunt, tertio subcylindrico, proximis quinque obconicis, ultimis 
tribus paulo majoribus capitulum arcte imbricatum lanceola- 
tum efformantibus. Oculi prominuli, subtriangulares, distincte 
reticulati. Thorax subglobosus, ex punctis confluentibus, no- 
dulis intermixtis, scaber. Elytra subsulcata, squamosa : sulcis 
punctis ocellaribus albis ornatis, interstitiis serie setarum de- - 
cumbentium et granulorum alternorum, notandis. In prona 
corporis 
