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I. Scrobes curved, deflexed and more or less prolonged 
towards under surface. 
i. Upper surface, without scales; sizesmall . . . . BAryperrHes, Duv. 
ii. Upper surface with a more or less thick covering 
of scales ; size moderate. 
1. Apex of the tibie with the outer margin not 
reflexed at the insertion of the tarsi. 
A. Scrobes meeting beneath rostrum; antenne 
with joints 3—7 of the funiculus globose and sub- 
transverse . . F Sieewet tn at eee NDA GRRE, Genie. 
B. Scrobes not meeting beneath rostrum ; antennz 
with joints 3~—7 of the funiculus not globose . . Potyprusts, Germ. 
2. Apex of the tibiz with the outer margin reflexed 
forming a cavity for the insertion of the tarsi; size 
Mare ees ; . . LIOPHLmuUS, Germ. 
Scrobes not curved or 1 deflexed ; B upper “surface usually 
eat covered with scales but occasionally simply 
JOLANUCEGETI: geese ore ices Me cmc Mey . PHYLLOBIUS, Germ. 
BARYPEITHES, Duval. 
This genus as here constituted contains the single species 4. sulci- 
frons, the two other British species usually included under it (BL. aranei- 
fornis and B. pellucidus) being now referred to a new genus, Hxomias, 
which is placed under the Brachyderina through the formation of the 
side pieces of the metasternum ; it is a small black shining insect with a 
very short rostrum, 
B. sulcifrons, Boh. Oblong, glabrous, black or pitchy black, 
shining; head broad, closely and. distinctly, but comparatively finely 
punctured, rostrum very short and broad, with a strong central furrow ; 
antenne long, red, with club darker; thorax often reddish, with the 
sides dilated, coarsely and not very closely punctured ; elytra elongate 
oval, with the shoulders rounded, and with regular rows of rather strong 
punctures, interstices finely punctured ; legs moderately long and stout, 
red, femora simple. L. 3 mm, 
In moss, &e.; very local; Mount Edgecumbe; Devonshire, Killerton (Rev. H. 
8. Gorham) ; Douglis, Isle of Man; Scarborough ; taken in the north of Northum- 
berland by Mr, J. Hardy ; Scotland, very local, Tweed and Forth districts. 
LIOPHL@GWUS, Germar. 
In the Munich catalogue published in 1871, seventeen species are 
enumerated as belonging ‘to this genus, but in the European catalogue of 
Heyden, Reitter and Weise no less than twenty-eight species are men- 
tioned from Europe alone, fourteen new ones having been described by 
M. Tournier; according to Bedel the species belonging to the genus 
vary extremely and several forms have been divided off as separate 
which have no real appreciable characters ; they inhabit Europe and the 
Caucasus and one or two have been described from Persia ; our single 
