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and legs more or less ferruginous : the funner rather the darker of the two ; extremely robust ; 

 with the second joint of their funiculus excessively short (being of the same length as each of the 

 following ones) ; and with their scape suddenly bent (or angulated), and thickened, immediately 

 in front of its base, from which point it is greatly incrassated the whole way to the apex, — and, 

 compared with that of the following species, of subequal breadth throughout the entire distance : 

 the latter with i\\e'\v front tibia alone curved, — which moreover have their inner edge deeply con- 

 stricted, or scooped out, at a considerable distance behind then* extremity. 



A most peculiar insect, the basally-angiilated, or bent, structure of its scape, 

 wliich is suddenly thickened at that point, and continues excessively robust (and 

 but slightly increasing in breadth) the whole way to the apex, in conjunction with 

 the deeply constricted inner margin of its front tibiae, being of themselves suffi- 

 cient to distinguish it from every other member of the Curculionidce here described. 

 From the ^S*. curvipes it may be known, apart from the above (sectional) charac- 

 teristics, by its rather shining and more piceous hue, by the comparative paucity 

 of the dirty mud-like scales with which it has a tendency to be clothed, and by 

 the somewhat longer, less rigid, and generally partially obliterated setae with 

 which its upper surface is beset. It is not very uncommon on the grassy slopes 

 of Madeira at rather low elevations. On the high cliffs to the eastward of 

 Funchal, below the Palheiro, I have observed it more abundantly than elsewhere, 

 especially diu'ing the autumnal months ; and, as abeady stated, I think it far from 

 unlikely that it may be an attendant upon Ants' nests ; and should such be the 

 case, it would, in all probability, be found in greater numbers were its proper 

 localities more rigidly investigated. 



§ II. Antennarum seapus omnino eurvatus atque apicem versus facilius (tamen valde) incrassatus ; articulo 

 secv/ndo sequentibus distincte longiore. Tihice omnes siibcv/rvateB,posteriores apicem versus acuminatcB. 



301. Scoliocerus curvipes, Woll. 



S. fusco-niger parum dense lutoso-squamosus, prothorace crebre punctato, elytris subpunctato-striatis, 

 interstitiis setis suberectis breviuscuhs valde rigidis subcrebris seriatim instructis, antennis pedi- 

 busque fusco-ferrugineis. 



Long. Corp. lin. l|-2. 



Habitat Maderam, et borealem et australem, in locis similibus ac prsecedens, sed usque ad clivos 

 montium ascendens. 



S. similar to the S. Madera, bu.t of a more rusty and less piceous hue, perfectly opake, and more 

 densely clothed all over with mud-like scales. Rostrum and prothorax as in that species, except 

 that the former is perhaps a little shorter and more distinctly attenuated towards the apex. 

 Elytra with the setae of their interstices much robuster (though perhaps not quite so long) and 

 rather more numerous, — having less of a tendency moreover to be rubbed off, or obhterated, on 

 the disk. Antenna ani legs, likewise, darker than in that insect, being usually of a dull brownish- 

 ferruginous : the former a little less thick than those of the S. Madera ; with the second joint of 



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