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feetly), although I do not think I should like to treat them all as 

 congeneric if I could confidently assign any one of them in 

 particular to Timcweta. The species, however, which seem to mo 

 most likely to be typical Timaretce (the first three described below) 

 can hardly be referred to the Trachyjjhlceldes without a remark on 

 the peculiar form of their scrobes, which are neither thoroughly of 

 the Otiorhynchid nor of tlie Brachyderid type, but somewhat 

 intermediate between the two. They are not "linear," but neither 

 are they thoroughly " foveiform," and while decidedly "arched" 

 (the lower margin less strongly than the upper, but nevertheless 

 decidedly) they are situated entirely in the upper half of the 

 lateral face of the rostrum, so that their hinder portion, though 

 certainly directed downward, does not reach quite so far down- 

 ward as the middle of the eye. The following characters, however, 

 which the species in question present in common with the others 

 referred below to the Trachyphleeides are entirely in harmony with 

 that refeience : liind corbels open; metasternum short; claws 

 free ; antennae shorter than in most of the Otiorhyncliides ; upper 

 surface bearing short stout erect more or less clubbed set?e ; tarsi 

 short. 



TiMARETA LINEATA, sp.UOV. 



Minus brevis, subovata; obscure fusca, antennis pedibusque rufes- 

 centibus ; squamis fuscis et niveis intermixtis (his in elytris 

 lineatim condensatis) et setulis crassly erectis brevibus curvatis 

 pallidis vestita ; rostro quam caput vix longiori baud angus- 

 tioi i, sat arcuato, a capite modice distincto ; scrobes laterales 

 arcuatse ; antennis sat brevibus, prothoracem vix superantibus, 

 scapo oculum vix superanti setuloso ; oculis [)arvis rotundatis 

 parum prominulis grossegranulatis ; prothorace leviter trans- 

 verso, lateribus modice arcuatis ; scatello vix distincto ; 

 elytris prothorace sesquilatioribus, subtiliter punctulato- 

 striatis, ad basin sinuatis, interstitiis 1° 3° (hoc interriipte) 

 ^ basi 5° 6° (hujus parte basali excepta) et 7° niveis; pro- 

 sterno antice subtruncato ; segmentis ventralibus 3° 4°que sat 

 brevibus ; sutura 1** ventrali minus arcuata ; tarsis brevibus ; 



