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and sliglit ; scape not thicker at the tip ; funiculus of seven joints, 

 obconic, first and second elongate, from the third to the seventli 

 of variable length, getting gradually thicker ; the club oval, 

 articulated. Eyes large, vertical, sinuated beneath. Thorax 

 scarcely or not transversal, rounded at the sides, slightly bisiuuated 

 at the base, bulging out anteriorly, with the anterior border more 

 or less prominent, and profoundly sinuated on the antero-inf erior 

 border. Scutellum of a curvilinear-triangle form. Elytra 

 subcylindrical, rather wider than the thorax, and very slightly 

 sinuate at their base. The anterior legs elongated, in the males 

 particularly, slightly separated ; tibiae robust, compressed, bi- 

 sinuated in front, and strongly pointed at their extremity ; tarsi 

 spongy beneath, with the third joint much larger than the first 

 and second, the fourth of medium size, the claws of variable 

 length ; the second abdominal segment much larger than the 

 third and fourth united, separated from the first by a strongly 

 arcuated suture. Mesothoracic epimera rather large. Body 

 oblong, unequal, scaly. 



The species 0. KJur/ii was first described in Schonherr's great 

 work on the Curculionidas, Yol. 3, p. 246, though it seems to have 

 been known previously to Hope, as Schonherr acknowledges 

 having received the insect from Hope with the name attached. 

 The specific characters given to the species by Schonherr are here 

 translated : 



" Oblong, black, clothed above with deep brownish-red scales, 

 and beneath with lighter reddish-brown ; rostrum rather slender, 

 rugose-punctate ; thorax oblong, remotely and obsoletely tuber- 

 culated, in front bifasciculated, with a patch in front of the 

 scutellum of a reddish-brown ; the elytra finely striate-punctate, 

 marked with a transverse, oblique, reddish fascia, the alternate 

 interstices rather elevated, and with four rather large fasciculated 

 tubercles." The average length of the species is (female) eight 

 millemetres ; and the greatest width three millimetres. The 

 male is about half that size. 



