212 Mr. T. V. Wollastou on certain Coleoptera 



Good Hope." Nevertheless it must be admitted that its real position, 

 iu a natural classification, is very questionable. 



9. Nesiotes squamosiis, n. sp. (PI. XIV. fig. 3.) 



K ovatus, fusco-piceus, opaeus et squamis fusco-brunneis crassis plus 

 minus obsitus ; prothorace convexo, mox ante medium rotimdato- 

 ampliato, postice angustiore subrecto ; elytris convexis, ovatis antice 

 trimcatis et postice leviter acuminatis (i. e. mox intra apicem leviter 

 constrictis) ; antennis (prsesertim ad basin) tarsisque calvis rufes- 

 centibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1^. 



Two specimens only of this curious little weevil were amongst 

 Mr. Bewicke's captures at St. Helena. 



Fam. Antliribidse. 

 Genus Notioxenus, nov. gen. (PI. XIV. figs. 1, 2.) 



Corpus sat parvum, oblongo-ovatum, vol pubescenti-variegatum vel sub- 

 glabrimi et pictum, quasi vere Curculionideum : rostro bre\'i, trian- 

 gidari, apice rotundato-truncato ; ocmZ/s lateralibus, rotimdatis, demissis : 

 prothorace subovato postice ti-imcato, ante basin vel liuea impressa vel 

 striga elevata (plus minus arcuatis) transversim instructo : scutello 

 minutissimo (segre observando) : elytris oxdXihxvi basi truncatis, postice 

 pavdo abbreviatis (pygidium vix tegentibus), necnon ad apicem ipsum 

 singidatim paido rotimdatis. Antenna' graciles, rectee, iu pagiua supe- 

 riore rostri (mox iutra ocidos in fovea) insertte ; articulis 1'"" et 2do 

 longiusculis (illo paulo robustiore cm'vato), St'o ad Swrn longitudine 

 subfequalibus, latitudiue leviter cresceutibus, reliquis clavam elongatam 

 laxam 3-articulatam sat abruptam pilosam efficieutibiis (9"° et IQn^o 

 intus obsolete productis, ultimo subgloboso). Pedes breviusculi, sub- 

 graciles ; tibiis rectis, ad apicem muticis ; tarsis pseudotetrameris, art. 

 Imo longiusculo, 2do paulo breviore latiore, ad apicem leviter emargiuato, 

 3tium latiorem bUobum recipiente. 



A voTios austrinus, et ^evos hospes. 



E-egarding the affinities of this singular genus there cannot be 

 much question, — its straightened antennae, which are implanted on 

 the upper surface of the rostrum, immediately within the eyes, in 

 conjunction with their lax triarticulate club, its sub-basal prothoracic 

 line, slightly abbreviated elytra, and the construction of its second 

 and third tarsal joints at once assigning it to that small section of 

 the AniJirihidce of which, I believe, the only recorded genera are 

 Caranistes (from Madagascar), the partially saltatorial Arceocerus 

 (from Java, India, itc), and the saltatorial Chorar/us and Xenor- 

 chestes (from Europe and Madeira respectively). Nevertheless in 



