506 shuckard's descriptions of 



Family. — CurculionidjE. 

 Legio 11. — Mecorhynchi. Divisio I. — Erirhinides. 



COHORS 1\ SCUTELLATI. 



Genus. — Eurhamphus, Shuck, 



Antennae very slender, 1'2-jointed, as long as the entire rostrum, in 

 the middle of which they are inserted ; the scape nearly as long 

 as the flagellum ; the funiculus 7-jointed, with the first the 

 longest, the rest gradually decreasing in length to the clava, and 

 each nodose at the apex ; the clava oblong-ovate acuminate : 

 rostrum longer than the head and thorax, porrect, cylindrical ; 

 the scrobes'' linear, and extending nearly to the lower margin of 

 the eyes : eyes ovate, convex, behind which the head is con- 

 stricted, depressed upon the forehead, and swollen beneath : 

 thorax obconic, considerably attenuated anteriorly, constricted 

 in a broad band behind the head, and slightly rounded late- 

 rally behind this constriction, subemarginate above in front, 

 broadly so beneath, and sub-bisinuate behind : scutellum ovate 

 rounded : elytra subovate, nearly twice the length of the thorax, and 

 covering the pygidium ; the humeral angles produced and obtuse ; 

 convex in the centre which is common to both, and a gibbosity 

 towards the apex of each separately : legs long, the anterior pair 

 the longest, and approximate at the base ; femora clavate, eden- 

 tate, and nodose at the apex ; tibiae slender, cylindrical, curved 

 at the extremity (especially the anterior pair), where they are 

 armed with a strong and acute hook, and furnished within this, at 

 the insertion of the tarsi, with a fascicle of hair : tarsi dilated, the 

 three first points clothed beneath with a pulvillus, which has a 

 longitudinal central channel ; the two basal joints triangular, the 

 penultimate deeply bilobed, and the terminal one the longest, 

 slender, and armed with two simple claws. 



Named from tv intensive, and pafifog, a beak, in allusion to 

 the length of the rostrum. 



Sp. 1. Eurhamp. fasciculatus. Shuck. (See pi. 18.) Murinus, 

 nitidus, fascicuUs hrunneis niveisque conspersis, necnon 

 squamis alhidis pulverulejitis lituris maculisque hrunneis 

 commixtis ; elytris longitudinaliter striatis. (Length 2\ 

 inches.) 



a Schbnherr uses this term technically to designate the furrow that receives 

 the scape of the antennae ; it does not occur in Kirby and Spence. 



