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palpis nigris; antennis articulis tertio et sequentibus gris- 
cescentibus, ad apicem nigris ; capite lined alba longitudina- 
liter notato; elytris quatuor-decim guttis flavescenti-albis 
adspersis; maculis eodem colore corpus subtus ornantibus ; 
tarsis cinereis, articulo terminali nigro. 
Long. corp. 53 lin.; lat. 23 lin. 
Hab. ad Insulas Philippinenses. In Mus, Brit. 
This insect has more nearly the aspect of some of the Curcu- 
lionide than of any of the species of its own group; its re- 
semblance in size, form and colouring to a certain species of 
Pachyrhynchus, which Mr. Cuming found in the same locality, is 
remarkable. 
The head is vertical, rather small and narrow; the labrum is 
rather broader than long, and slightly emarginated in front; the 
palpi are moderately large and long; the middle joint of the 
maxillary palpi is rather shorter than the other two, and the 
terminal joint of both maxillary and labial palpi is the largest ; 
this joint is slightly swollen in the middle, and truncated at the 
apex. The antenne are somewhat approximated at the base, 
very slender, and, when bent backwards, do not quite extend to 
the apex of the elytra; the basal joint exceeds either of the other 
joints in length, excepting the third joint, and is but slightly 
stouter; the second joint is very short; the third is very long, 
being about equal to the three following joints taken together, and 
very nearly twice as long as the first joint, it is slender at the 
base, but compressed and considerably dilated at the opposite 
extremity; the fourth joint is shorter than the first, but longer 
than either of the following joints, which are nearly equal to each 
other, but diminish slightly in length towards the apex of the 
antenna. The eyes are very deeply emarginated internally, and 
encircle the base of the antenne. The thorax is broader than the 
head, but scarcely more than half the width of the elytra; its 
length and width are about equal, and its form is nearly globose ; 
close to the anterior margin is a transverse groove, and the hinder 
part is distinctly constructed and cylindrical, and presents a 
slight transverse groove close to the hinder margin, and a second, 
deeper, transverse groove in front of this. The elytra are nearly 
ovate, very convex, about one-fourth longer than broad, slightly 
rounded at the apex, and have the humeral angles somewhat 
prominent. The legs are long and stout; the femora are distinctly 
incrassated near the middle; the tibiz are compressed, and there 
is a faint denticulation on the outer side of the middle pair, as we 
observe in Dorcadion, Colobothea, &c.: the tarsi are broad. 
