98 M. Chevrolat on Microxyloh'ms. 



Antennce yellow at the base, ferruginous at the apex. Legs 

 pale, hairy, with two claws. 

 Length 006 inch. 



Extremely common at Cranmore in the autumn under the fallen 

 leaves in the grove. 



Fig. 8. Animal magnified. 8 a. Profile. 8 6. Left antenna. 8e. 1st 



and 2nd joints of the same antenna. 8d Last 2 joints (3rd and 4th) 



of the right antenna, showing the hairs arising in circles, and giving it 

 theappearanceof being numerously jointed, which it is not. 8e. The 

 tails. 



XXI. Description (rim nouveuii Genre de Curculionites. 

 Par M. A. Chevrolat, Memhre de la Soc. Ent. de 

 France, d^c. 



[Read July 7, 1834.] 

 Fam. CURCULIONID^. 



MiCROXYLOBIUS, 



Genus novum Curculionidum e divisione Cossonidum, Schh. ^ 

 Character Generis. 



Antenna crassse, 10-articulatse, ultra medium rostri inserta^ ; arti- 

 culo Imo (scapus) apice clavato, oculos attingente, funiculus 

 5 articulis ; 2do conico ; 3tio subtriangulari, 4 — 6 monilifor- 

 mibus, clava ovata 4-articulata. 



Rostrum capite longius, cylindricum, subarcuatum ; scrobs obliqua, 

 recta, infra oculos desinens. 



Caput sub convexum, infra gutturosum. 



Oculi laterales, subdepressi, rotundati. 



Thorax latitudine longior, subcylindricus, in medio perparum exten- 

 sus, basi et apice truncatus circuatusque. 



Scutellum nullum. 



Elytra connata, subcylindrica, latescentia versus apicem, singulatim 

 rotundata extremitate. 



Pedes tot approximati ; femoribus crassis inermibus ; tibiis subar- 

 cuatis, apice unco recurvo armatis ; articulo Imo tarsorum co- 

 nico, 2do brevi, 3tio bilobo, ultimo longo, biunguiculato. 



Sp. 1. MicR. Westwoodii. 

 PI. X. Fig. 6. 

 Nigro-seneus, glaber ; capite rostroque punctulatis, thorace con- 



