Horn.] 



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One specimen from the south of Newfoundland given to Dr. LeConte 

 by M. Putzeys, of Brussels. The specimen is nearly entirely deprived of 

 scales and black. 



Group IV Hormori. 



Rostrum longer and narrower than the head, subcylindrical at base, 

 broader at tip, ala? moderately divergent, apex emarginate and with a V 

 shaped elevated line, median line distinctly impressed. Scrobes deep in 

 front, and moderately arcuate, posteriorly feebly marked and directed be- 

 neath (Hormorus) or toward the lower border of the eye {Agasphwrops). 

 Antennte moderately long, attaining the middle of the eye in the former 

 and barely reaching the eye in the latter. Eyes moderately or very promi 

 nent. Metasternal side pieces almost entirely concealed by the elytra ; 

 metasternum short. Intercoxal process broad, truncate, second abdominal 

 segment but little longer than the third and separated from the first bj' a 

 straight suture. Corbels of hind tibise open, claws of tarsi free. 



The supports of the deciduous pieces of the mandibles are very promi- 

 nent, obliquely truncate and pointed at tip ; the deciduous pieces do not 

 exist on any of the specimens before me. The open posterior corbels and 

 the straight first abdominal suture would seem to place the two genera here 

 included in Lacordaire's Blosyrides with which, however, they have but 

 little in common. 



Two genera are thus separated : 

 Scape attaining the middle of the eyes, the latter 



moderately prominent, without posterior orbit. HORMORUS. 



Scape barely attaining the anterior margin of the 

 eye, the latter spherical, prominent and with 

 posterior orbit AGASPH^ROPS- 



These two genera have the elytra at base feebly emarginate and some- 

 what broader than the thorax, the humeri being broadly rounded in the 

 latter and subrectangular in the former genus. There is also a close super- 

 ficial resemblance to Otiorhynclius, especially in the second, where the sur- 

 face is black and with few and inconspicuous scales. Hormorus is how- 

 ever more ornate as will be seen in the description. I have endeavored to 

 find genera to which these are allied, but with the work of Lacordaire and 

 the limited foreign collection at my disposal I am entirely unable to do so, 

 I must therefore describe them so far as to make them recognizable in our 

 fauna and leave their relationships for future determination. 



HORMORUS n. g. 



Rostrum longer and narrower than the head, cylindrical at base, slightly 

 dilated at aj^ex, ahe moderately prominent, tip acutely emarginate and with 

 a V-shaped line and on each side a groove, median line finely impressed, 

 terminating in a broad shallow impression and between the eyes in a slight 

 puncture. Mandibular processes prominent, obliquely truncate and acute 

 at tip. Mentum slightly retracted, in great part concealing the other oral 



