BY A. M. LEA. 661 



er size, comparatively wider form, and elytra with rather 

 distinct tubercles. 



Subfamily Cylindrorhinides. 

 Gastrocis, n.g. 



Head moderately large. Eyes large, widely separated, 

 somewhat prominent, deeper than wide, facets of medium 

 size. Rostrum fairly stout, shorter than prothorax. Aerobes 

 commencing at apex of rostrum, curved round and then 

 directed to lower margin of eyes. Antennae rather thin; scape 

 shorter than funicle ; funicle with all the joints longer than 

 wide; club elongate-elliptic, distinctly three-jointed. Fro- 

 thonix transverse, ocular lobes distinct. Scutelluui minute. 

 Elytra subovate, tuberculate. Mesosfernum with sidepieces 

 apparently soldered together. Metasternum very short, side- 

 pieces very narrow, but in front triangularly dilated. Abdomeii 

 long. Legs rather long; front coxae touching, middle lightly, the 

 hind ones widely separated; femora moderately stout, edentate; 

 tibiae feebly mucronate, front pair curved at apex; tarsi moder- 

 ately long, third joint wide, deeply bilobed. 



I have seen but one specimen of the species described below, 

 and its abdomen is remarkable. It appears to be composed of 

 six segments, the first rather large (fully as long as meso- and 

 metasternum combined), second short, third and fourth each but 

 little shorter than the second, fifth slightly longer than three 

 preceding combined, and at its base adorned with a conspicuous 

 semidouble cushion of ochreous setae,* the sixth is almost one- 

 half the length of the fifth. But the sixth segment is probabl}^ 

 the apical dorsal segment out of its usual position,! and, if so, 

 the female (I presume the type to be a male) has probably the 

 normal five segments only. 



With some doubt, I refer the genus to the C ylindrorhhiides 

 and to the vicinity of Ferperus\ from that genus, it differs in its 

 somewhat wider eyes, narrower metasternal episterna, shorter 

 second segment of abdomen, and tuberculate elytra, etc. 



* 'J'he froufc coxa? are adorned with similar setae, 

 t The anal opening is visible between it and the fifth. 



