PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



by the 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



V. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 89 Washington: 1940 No. 3100 



EURHOPTODES, A REMARKABLE NEW GENUS OF 

 PHILIPPINE CRYPTORHYNCHINE WEEVILS 



By Elwcod C. Zimmek^iax 



The material upon which this paper is based was sent to me for 

 identification from the United States National Museum by L. L. Buch- 

 anan. It has proved to be new and represents an extraordinary genus 

 of cryptorhynchine weevils for which a new name must be proposed. 



EURHOPTODES, new genus 



Body small, ovoid, dorsally convex, setose, not conspicuously squa- 

 mose. Head normally concealed from above by the pronotum ; inter- 

 ocular area as broad as the base of the rostrum ; eyes coarsely faceted, 

 lateral, separated below by the breadth of the base of the rostrum, 

 hidden by the postocular lobes at repose. Rostrum arcuate, dorso- 

 ventrally compressed, obviously broader than thick, shorter than the 

 prothorax; antennae inserted slightly beyond the middle, the scrobe 

 lateral, running back to the eye. 



Antemiae with the scape gradually clavate, about as long as the 

 funiculus excluding the club, its apex not quite attaining the eye; 

 funiculus 7-segmented, the first segment somewhat longer and stouter 

 than the second, the second longer than the third, 3 to 7 moniliform 

 and each successively sliglitly broader; club ovoid, shorter than the 

 funiculus, the first segment making up half its mass, the sutures not 



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