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Rostrum bare, finely punctured, the punctures becoming sparse 

 or almost absent on the apical portion, which is dilated, the width 

 becoming notably greater where the pterygia become outstanding. 

 Eyes large, the space between them in dorsal aspect only about equal 

 to the width of one of them. Pronotum bare, dull, with dense micro- 

 scopic sculpture and copious punctures generally more or less irregu 

 lar and coarse. Usually there is a vague depression near the bas( 

 and sometimes also two vague lateral ones in front of this, sometimes 

 too a more or less definite median impunctate line. The greatest 

 width of the pronotum is nearly equal to its length; in front it is 

 constricted and there about two-thirds as wide as along the hind 

 margin. Elytra sparsely or irregularly clothed with flavescent setae 

 on the interstices, these setae in parts extending to the base, and with 

 seven rows of punctures, which vary somewhat in coarseness and also 

 as to their closeness to one another in the striae. 



Longtli 4-5 mm. 



This species sliould he placed after //. hhirJlus and H. 

 l-auaienm-'i. from wliicli it differs remarkably in the bare tho- 

 rax and in many other respects. Compared with tliose of the 

 former, its eves are very large, and this appears to be its most 

 remarkable character. 



Hal). — :\roiint Olympns, near Honolnlu ; bred from mines 

 in Elnphor/lossiim bv :\rr. O. H. Swezey, as recorded by him 

 previonsly (Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc, IT. p. 210, 1013).* 



Protcrliinus moriJxnidus sp. n. 



Black, the antennae sometimes more or less rufescent, the legs, 

 or at least the tibiae, generally so. 



Basal joint of antennae very large, long and stout, subtriangular, 

 as long as the next two together, the second joint being short and 

 stout, the ninth somewhat larger than the eighth, but much smaller 

 than the tenth. Pronotum globose, clothed with golden scales and 

 for a large part covered with a dense patch of silvery squamosity. 

 Elytra with the humeral angles distinct or a little produced, clothed 

 like the pronotum with golden scales, but with more or less numerous 

 spots of denser silvery squamosity and sparsely set with short, erect, 

 white setae, the scutellar region bare. The femora are very stout and 

 bear erect white setae, like those on the tibiae. 



Length alwnt 2.5 mm. 



Hah. — ]\Iolokai, on the red-flowered native cotton tree. 



♦Recently Mr. Swezey has bred this weevil from the same ferns 

 at Punaluu, N.W. Koolau Mountains. — Ed. 



