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genuine part of the order, we find such genera as Antliarhinus, with 

 its prodigiously elongated beak, Ulocerus, with its dead-stick appear- 

 ance, the round Cassida-like or lady -bird-formed Camarotus, and all 

 those genera, with their few or many species, so admirably described 

 in the distinguished Swede's 1st and 5th vols, of the ' Genera et Spe- 

 cies Curculionidmn.' Not a few other genera might be mentioned, 

 but perhaps the above list will suffice as an apology for introducing 

 to notice another curious form which will come close to Attelabus, 

 and which most probably the great monographer of this fearfully ex- 

 tensive group would have classed as a "yre^r" or subgenus of that set 

 of insects. 



Those who know only our British Apoderi and Attelabi, will bear 

 with me when I tell them that in the former genus many species from 

 Madagascar, India and the eastern islands, have singularly long stran- 

 gulated necks, (Apod. Camelus, GirafTa, and other species named after 

 long-necked beasts or birds) ; whilst others have the elytra most curi- 

 ously spined, (A. Hystrix, spinosus, echinatus, dumosus) : while in 

 the latter many hardly less curious species occur. The Attelabus 

 longimanus from Cayenne, described by Olivier in 1789* (with its 

 fore legs elongated and much developed, the femora of the male being 

 armed with a terminal simple hook, while in the female there is a dou- 

 ble one), in some respects approaches our insect, while in others it is 

 very different. Of the genus, briefly and but imperfectly described 

 here, I have seen only four specimens, three apparently males, the 

 other a female. These specimens are in the well-known collections 

 of MM. Chevrolat, Gory and Dupont : the last-mentioned entomolo- 

 gist has the female also in his unrivalled collection. 



The following description may serve to distinguish this from other 

 subgenera. 



Genus. — Attelabus, Linn. Subgenus. — Lagenoderus. 



AntennsB in fovea inserts, 11- (12 ?) articulatse, articuli quinque ultimi crassiores, 

 perfoHati, clavam formantes, (articuhis terminalis minutus) : rostrum capita brevius, 

 apice subincrassatum : thorax lageniformis, parte antica in mare valde elongata, in 

 femina cnrtiore crassioreque, supra subconvexus, transverseque profunclis lineis in- 

 sculptus: pedes antici elongati, femora carssa, dentibus diversis instructa; tibiae intus 

 bisinuatae unco apicali : elytra subquadrata, chlamydiformia, antice truncata, apice 

 debiscentia, gibbere parro subapicali singulatim insti-ucta. 



* ' Encycl. Meth,' iv. 278, No. 1. Ent. v. 81. (Attelabe), p. 7, No. 4, pi. 1, fig. 4, 

 a, b. Schoen. ' Syn. Ins. Cure' I. i. p. 205, sp. 17. This, with several other species, 

 has been formed into a subgenus by Germar, under the name of Euscelus ; but both 

 Schoenherr and Dejean regard it merely as a section: see Schoenh. 1. c. and Dej. Cat. 



