frotii the Cape of Quod Hope. 143 



(JSnbfam. Bkachydekides.) 

 Genus Stexotheeitjm, nov. gen. (Plate XI. lig. 4.) 



Corpus sat parvum, e^ngatum, angiistatum, dense squamosum, valde in- 

 sequale, costatuni, sculpturatum : capite liueari angusto exserto ; rostro 

 (fig. 46) elongate liueari curvato, supra (pn^sertim ad basin) convexo ; 

 scrobe profunda valde obliqua, i. e. mox pone apicem (longissime ante 

 oculum) sub rostrum subito retrorsum desiliente ; oculis a margine pro- 

 thoracis antico sat remotis, parvis subreni formi-ovatis demissis, obliquis 

 et valde lateralibus,— /. e. infra superflciem frontis basinque rostri con- 

 vexani omuino positis : prothoracc angusto subconico, antice trimcato 

 et pone margiuem anticum leviter transversim constricto : seutello hand 

 observando : clytris angustis, subellipticis basi truncatis, valde longi- 

 tudinaliter costatis, singulo ad apicem ipsum per se acuminato, apicem 

 bifidum efficiente. Antennce (fig. 4 a) elongatse, gracillimse, fere ad 

 apicem rostri inserts ; scapo elongato gracillimo basi fiexuoso, ad apicem 

 ipsum valde et abrupte clavato ; funicuh 7-articidato filiformi, articu- 

 lato Inio secundo (brevi) paulo longiore, basi flexuoso, S'io et 4*0 secundo 

 paulo longioribus (singulo primi longitudine et inter se sequalibus), 5to ad 

 7mum inter se sequalibus (singido secundi longitudine aut vix longiore) ; 

 clava elongata laxa 3-articulata et baud abrupta (articulatis l»no et 2do 

 subsequalibus, hoc illo vix latiore, ultimo elongato conico acuto). 

 Pedes breviusculi, subsequales (antici vix reliquis longiores) ; femoribiis 

 minus clavatis, muticis ; tihiis ad apicem truncatis muticis, sed intus 

 ibidem leviter productis : tarsis pseudotetrameris brevibus, articulato 

 3tio baud late bilobo (praecedentibus vix latiore), idtimo breviuscido 

 clavato loif/uicuh's parvis simplicibus munito. 



A (TTevos angustus, et Br^p'iov bestiola. 



The very extraordinaiy insect from which the above stnictiu'al dia- 

 gnosis has been compiled is an undoubted member (as indeed I have 

 been, also, assm-ed by both MM. Jekel and Waterhouse) of the sub- 

 family Brachy derides, retaining the essential chai'aeter of the various 

 groups around Pohjdrosiis, though widely diiFeiiag from them all in 

 its actual modifications ; and it would seem probable that the New 

 Zealand Rhadinosomus acuminatus may perhaps be found to be 

 amongst its nearest known allies. In its general contour and sui'- 

 face it is not altogether unsuggestive (to me at least) of a very ex- 

 treme form of some of the longer- snouted, and more deeply sculp- 

 tiu'ed, Sitonce ; nevertheless its real details of structure debar it 

 altogether from admission into that genus, it having scarcely a single 

 point in which it absolutely agrees with it. Indeed in its elongate 

 and veiy slender antennae (-ndth theu' abiniptly clubbed scape, almost 

 unthickened clava, and peculiar proportions of fimiculus-joints — the 

 first, third, and fourth of which are subequal, whilst the second is 



