600 Mr. Pascoe's (lescn'/itions of Curculionidaj. 



Poropteriis lemur. 



P. ellipticus, niger, opacus, supra leviter graniilatu.s, inter- 

 stitiis squamulis pallidis instructis; prothorace apice i)roducto, 

 integro ; elytris postice abrupte declivis, bigibbosis, apice seipso 

 rotundato. Long. 4| lin, 



Hab. Port Bo wen. 



Elliptic, black, opaque, finely granulated above, the intervals 

 Avith minute browDisb dispersed scales; rostrum moderately long, 

 coarsely punctured, pimctures crowded at the tip ; antenna; 

 ferruginous, second joint of the funicle a little longer than the 

 first; prothorax about equal in length and breadth, incurved 

 anteriorly at the sides, the apex projecting, entire, impimctate, 

 granules flattish on the disc, smaller and more numerous at the 

 sides, many of them with a small glossy spot in the centre ; 

 elytra half as long again as broad, not prominent at the 

 shoulders, abruptly declivous behind, each elytron with a 

 stout compressed gibbosity behind ; two basal abdominal seg- 

 ments very large, the third and fourth very short. 



This species is somewhat like P. Jhveipennis , which, inter 

 alia, has a smooth punctured prothorax and non-gibbous elytra. 



PANTOXYSTUS. 



UvxtrHiii sat robustum, cylindricum. Antenna' normales. 

 Ocnli rotundati, infra remoti. Prothorax conicus, lobis oculari- 

 bus nullis. Elytra subcordata, prothorace latiora, humeris 

 rotvnidatis, Rivia j^ectoralis obsoleta. Co.ixc autica- sub- 

 approximatai. Femora infra dentata, hand canaliculata ; tibiu' 

 uuguiculatai ; ungues appendiculati. Abdomen segmentis duoljus 

 basalibus ampliatis. 



The type of this genus is Cleogonus mbricollis, Bois., a New 

 Guinea species. The ordinary Brazilian forms of Cleogoniia 

 have oblong-ovate eyes nearly contiguous beneath, the pjrothorax 

 with ocular lobes, a deep pectoral canal, femora channeled 

 beneath, and the tibiffi with a short mucro only; these characters 

 are all oj^posed to those given above. 



Chirozetes insignis. 



C. ( $ ) fuscus, interrupte fulvo-squamosus; pcdibiis, iira'sertim 

 anticitf, elongatis ; tarsis anticis articulo primo quam (a'teris 



