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are charactei-s introduced into the generic diagnosis which it 

 soems to me out of the question to regard as generic, and which 

 are not found in the subject of this description. The principal 

 discrepancies are in the antennae and the prothorax. According 

 to description the antennae of Telenica s^vq *' elongate" (without 

 any more precise specification of their length), but in the descrip- 

 tion of the several parts of the same the scape is said to extend 

 back to the front margin of the prothorax, which indicates their 

 being much shorter than in some allied genera (eg. Titinia and 

 Epherina). In the insect before me the scape is of the length 

 attributed to that of Telenica (which I should call " short" rather 

 than "elongate"), and the rest of the antennae bearing about the 

 usual proportion to the scape the whole antenna is only about 

 half as long as the whole insect, which I do not think can be 

 rightly called " elongate." In the diagnosis of Telenica " pro- 

 thorax transversus " is given as a generic chai-acter ; but I cannot 

 think it is rightly treated as such ; in the species before me the 

 length and width of the prothorax are equal by measurement (to 

 the eye the length appears greater than the width). 



The following are characters in respect of which this species 

 agrees well with the diagnosis of Telenica: rostrum not particu- 

 larly short, narrowed in the middle and with cavernous subapical 

 scrobes which do not extend as far as to the eye; scape of antennae 

 straight ; basal two joints of funiculus longer than the others ; 

 prothorax truncate at the base and having strongly rounded sides; 

 scutellum wanting ; tarsi moderately elongate ; claws free but 

 approximate. 



To a casual glance this insect is suggestive, I think, of the 

 Leptojysides rather than the Otiorhyiichides, but its round eyes 

 placed at a distance from the prothorax, together with the complete 

 absence of ocular lobes, require it to be lef erred to the latter 

 group, in which its short metasternum, open hind corbels, and free 

 claws seem to associate it with the true Otiorhynchides ; if not 

 admitted to Telenica it would, I think, require a new generic 

 name. 



