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Genus Eremotes, nov. gen. (PI. 18, fig. 1.) 



Corpus sat parvum, cylindviciun, calvum, profiuiile sculptii- 

 latiim, Hylurgl fovmam simulans : capite convexo ; roxtro 

 brcvi, crasso, lato, antice sensim attenuate ; scrobe valde pro- 

 funda obliqna curvata, infra oculura (et ibidem subargute ter- 

 rninata) desinente ; ■mandihuUs magnis, exserlis ; oculis longe 

 ante marginem prothoracis anticum sitis, rotundatis, valde 

 prominentibus : prothoracc siibconico, antice truncate (baud 

 producto), pone marginem anticum transversim constricio : 

 sciitello rotundato, distincto : chjtris cylindricis. Antennce 

 (18, la) breves, crassissimae, ante medium rostri inserts; 

 scapo brevi, robusto, gradatim clavato, vix curvato; funiculo 

 7-articulato, articulo Imo sat magno subquadrato, 2do brevis- 

 simo (prseccdcnti fere immerso), reliquis quinque brevibus 

 transversis latitudine vix crescentibus, inter se sat arete 

 compressis ct ultimo clavae sat arete adpresso ; capiiulo 

 parvo, baud abrupto, ovato basi truncato et apice levitcr 

 acuminato, solido, apicem versus obscure ."-annulato. Pedes 

 robusti, crassi, ant'ici ad basin fere approximati, hilermcdii 

 distantiores, poslici valde distantes : femor'ihus muticis : tibiis 

 subcurvatis, ad apicem externum in uncum magnum acutum 

 inflexum, necnon ad internum in spinani parvam productis : 

 tarsis pseudotetrameris, articulo .'Uio prsecedentibus vix la- 

 tiore. 



Obs, — Genus inter Cossonules valde anonialum, llijlurgi 

 formam simulans, sed tibiarum structura Curcullonidix omnino 

 congruit : rostro antennisque brevibus valde incrassatis, 

 funiculi articulo sccundo brevissimo (pr.xcedente fere re- 

 condito), capitulo parvo minus aljrupto, oculis valde rotun- 

 datis pronn'neiitibus longe ante niargiuem prollioiacis anticum 

 silis, tibiarum angulo interno in spinam producto tarso- 

 rumque articulo antepenultimo praecedentibus vix latiore a 

 generibus bujus Subfamilia3 plerisque discedit. 



Ab ipi]}iu)T)]Q, destructor [ep>;^<flw, destruo]. 



Altliougb bis sbort notice of it omits to call attention to any 

 single structural peculiarity of the insect except the thickness of 

 its funiculus, I have but little doubt tliat the remarkable beetle 

 from which the above generic characters have been compiled is 

 identical with M. Urulie's Hyliirgus crassicornis, — of Webb and 

 I'erthelot's " Ilistoire Naturelle des lies C'anaries." With Ilijliir- 

 gus, however, it has in reality nothing whatever to do, except in 

 outward contour, — ihe formntion of its api^'ally uncinate, undi- 



