Mr. Waterhouse on a new species of Lophotus, 329 



XXXIX. — Description of a new Species of the genus Lo- 

 photus, from the collection of Charles Darwin, Esq. By 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Curator to the Museum of the 

 Zoological Society, ^c. §-c. 



The genus Lophotus, founded by Schcenherr* upon an 

 insect from Chile, is placed by that author in his family Cleo- 

 nides, and in the apterous section of that family. But one 

 species of Lophotus was known to him at the time of the 

 publication of his second volume ; he must now however be 

 acquainted with two species, the Rev. F. W. Hope having 

 sent him two from his own collection. One of these is de- 

 scribed and figured by Mr. Hope in the ^Transactions of the 

 Entomological Society,^ under the name of Loph. nodipennis ; 

 to the other he applies the name trifasciatus — this, however, 

 I believe to be the same as Schoenherr's species. Mr. Hope 

 also refers the Curculio Vitulus of Fabricius to the same 

 genus : there are therefore three species of Lophotus known ; 

 and as these are now before me, together with the new species 

 I am about to describe, I will endeavour to point out their 

 chief distinguishing characters. 



Section RHYNCHOPHORA. 



Subsection GONATOCERI. 



Family Cleonid^. 



Genus Lophotus. 



Sp. 1. Lophotus Vitulus. 



Curculio Vitulus, Fab. Ent. Syst. torn. 1. pars 2. page 479. spec. 



356. 

 " C. brevirostris niger fronte bidentatd, elytris unispinosis. 

 Habitat in Terra del Fuego. Mus. Dom. Banks. 

 Caput nigrum rostro canaliculate. Inter oculos dentes duo elevati, 



acuti. Thorax rugosus, ater antice punctis duobus elevatis. 



Elytra carinata, rugosa, atra, postice spina elevata, acuta. 



Pedes nigri.'* — Fab. 



Two specimens of this species form part of Mr. Darwin's 

 collection ; one of them is from Hardy Peninsula, Tierra del 

 Fuego, taken in the month of March ; and the other is from 



* 'Genera et species Curculionidum,' torn. 2, pars^ prima, p. 314. 



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