468 Mr. KiRBx's Description of several new Species of Insects 



bead, and by iheir union, by means of a sinus cut out of their in- 

 ner side, form a round hole where the vertex of the liead appears 

 and part of the eyes, so that the animal is thus enabled to see 

 things above it as well as below it. The anterior part of the head 

 is below the thorax. 



** Thorace hand caput anibiente. 



jnceiis. 19' H. fusco-piceus glabcr, thorace emarginato, elytris 

 seriatim punctatis- 



Long Corp. lin. 6i. 

 Forsan ad aliud genus amandandum. Corpus oblongo-ovale, totum 

 glaberrimum, obscuriusculum, fusco-piceum. Caput postico 

 angustius, levissime punctulatum. Labrum transversum, apice 

 rotundatum. Labium transversum, rotundatum. Mentum fere 

 pentagonum. Palpi maxillares quadriarticulati : articulo extimo 

 magno, sed baud maximo, securiformi. Cli/peus apice subemar- 

 ginatus. rAora^t'semicircularis, segmento circuli antice dempto, 

 postice subrepandus : lateribus marginatis, levissime punctula- 

 tus ; dorso valde convexo. Eli/tra seriatim punctulata, margi- 

 nata: margine subreflexo. Epipleura lata, Veevis. 



COLEOPTERA tetramera. 

 (Curculionidce.) 

 EuRHiNus Kirby. 

 muricatus. 20. E. niger, piloso-subincanus, elytris basi subcris- 

 tatis : granulis tuberculisque acutis elevatis 

 scabris. 

 Long. Corp. (Rostro excluso) lin. 8. 

 Corpus obcuneiforme, plus minus piloso-incanum. Caput ru- 

 gulosum, postice laeve, inter oculos canaliculatum. Rostrum 



thoracis 



