Ill- Mr. David Sharp on the 



divergent processes, without trace of any scar, Mentum very 

 broad, but not entirely filling the buccal cavity, a narrow chink 

 being left on each side ; borne on a short very broad peduncle. 

 Rostrum moderately long and broad, without nasal plate, scrobes 

 exposed above in front, but afterwards lateral and descending, 

 moderately broad and definite. Antennae sub-terminal, funiculus 

 7-jointed, the 7th joint very abruptly separated from the 

 club. Thorax elongate, without ocular lobes or marginal cilise ; 

 coxal cavities nearer to the front than to the hind margin. Front 

 tibias produced internally at the tip, inner margin not denticulate. 

 Middle coxte slightly separated ; mesosternal side-pieces sub-equal 

 in size. Metasternum quite short. Hind coxEe not widely 

 separated ; first ventral segment behind the coxae, only equal 

 in length to the second, which again is but little longer than the 

 third or the fourth, these two being almost similar. Hind tibiae 

 broad at the tip, but the outer margin is laminate, not cavernose. 

 Tarsi pubescent beneath ; claws rather small but not contiguous at 

 the base. 



This genus seems to be an extremely isolated one, and 

 it would be very difficult to assign it a place in any of 

 the divisions of Lacordaire, or of Leconte and Horn. I 

 think it had better therefore form a distinct group 

 to be placed between the Otiorhynchides and Cylindro- 

 rhinides. In appearance it is more like Otiorhynchidas, 

 than any other of the groups of Rhynchophoraj and is, in 

 fact, somewhat similar to an elongate nai'row Liophla'us. 

 The structure of the mandibles would on the N. American 

 system, quite remove it from the Otiorhynchid«, and I 

 should myself take this view, were it not that in some 

 species of the genus Peritelus — P. senex, e. g., one of 

 the sexes has the mandibles formed in a somewhat 

 similar manner. The genus is, however, certainly not at 

 all allied to Peritelus, and it seems almost equally widely 

 separated from Meotiorhynchus in which an abnormal, 

 and again somewhat similar structure of the mandibles 

 exists. 



Kiirilonus insolitus, n. sp. 



Elongatus, niger, elytris hispidis, setisque minutis depressis 

 vestitis ; antennis piceis. Long, cumque rostro 11-12 mm. 



Antennae moderately long, scape thicker towards the extremity, 

 attaining the eyes but not passing beyond them ; not squamose, 

 but bearing a few long setaa ; "Jnd joint of funiculus quite as 



