160 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xxvi. 



"Eighth ventral divided into two transverse plates; eighth dorsal 

 voluminous, the hind margin not reflexed in the middle, but distinctly 

 so at the sides. Spiculum long and slender. Tegmen forming a 

 slender capacious ring, the junction of the sides being V-like, and 

 not prolonged as a strut; superior appendages apparently obsolete. 

 Median lobe very peculiar, broad, rather short, very strongly arched, 

 lower face prolonged and truncate ; upper face membranous and 

 transparent, allowing a complex armature of the sac to be seen ; struts 

 as long as the body, slender, strongly elbowed, but with the point of 

 attachment only membranous. 



" If the sac could be everted and restored to the functional con- 

 dition it would be very interesting, as the armature is clearly very 

 remarkable. 



" I find the creature to be an aberrant genus of Cossonidae ; it 

 should stand as a separate group Hormopini, somewhere near Rhyn- 

 cholini. It has not the slightest relation to Calandridse. In Wollas- 

 ton's System it would come somewhere near Tomolips, but according 

 to Champion in the Biologia that has a 5- jointed funiculus, though 

 Wollaston placed it in the 7-jointed lot; he knew, however, that it 

 had only 5 ! " 



It will thus be seen that Dr. LeConte was wrong in placing this 

 curious weevil in the subfamily Curculioninse and wrong also in sup- 

 posing that it was closely related to the Calandridse, but right in his 

 supposition that it might be closely related to some of Wollaston's 

 genera. Since he had only a single specimen for examination, his 

 error can be readily condoned. I am not sure that Mr. Leng had 

 access to even one specimen when he placed the tribe near the Eri- 

 rhinini. Certain it is that in antennal characters and general facies 

 it bears a close resemblance to several of the genera of the subtribe 

 Erirhini of that group. Now that Dr. Sharp has, by his examination 

 of the male genitalia, fixed its relationship, it can without question 

 be given its proper location in our future lists of American Coleoptera. 



My discovery of the colony of this weevil was purely an accident, 

 based upon the impulse to spread out a blanket and so search more 

 closely the cast away material from an umbrella. Such discoveries 

 are the chief joys of a naturalist's life, and give true zest to his 

 outings. As Thoreau has somewhere said : " We look for a thing for 

 a long time and at last come upon the whole family all at once at 



