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ternum) valde compressis et lobato-ampliatis : tars'is brevlbus, 

 valde anomalis, pone tibiarum apicem compressum lobatum 

 insertis, quasi 4-articulatis (articiilo ultimo vel vere vel quasi 

 obsoleto !) ; aniic'is (19, 2 b) vere 4-articulis [articulus ultimus 

 omnino abest], brevissimis, longissime pone apicem tibiarum 

 lobatum sitis et lobo ipso brevioribus [ergo superne baud 

 observandis], filiformibus, articulo Imo brevi, 2do longiore, 

 cjtio hoc paulo breviore, 4to prsecedenti vix minore, regu- 

 lariter ovall necnon ad apicem pilis perpaucis longissimis 

 obsito; jMsterioribus (19,2c, 2d) quasi 4-articulatis [articuli 

 ultimus et penultimus nisi fallor inter se omnino commis- 

 centur, articulum, aut potius appendiculam bifurcatam, ano- 

 nialani, efficientes], articulis 2do, 3tio et ultimo ad angulos 

 anticos longissime spinoso-lobatis (articulos 3 longe bifur- 

 cates formantibus !) — articulo Imo brevi-ovato apice trun- 

 cato, intra apicem compressum tibiarum abscondito, 2do 

 majore longiore, una cum Stio (minore graciliore) lobis duobus 

 spiniformibus longissimis aucto, 4to nisi fallor minuto inter 

 spinas tcrtii immerso et in ultimum (apice bifurcatum, sed 

 baud unguiculatum) omnino sufFuso. 



Obs. Genus valde anomalum, scapo brevissimo (in scrobe 

 auriculiformi omnino abscondito), funiculo 6-articulato (arti- 

 culis Imo ct 2do maximis crassis subsequalibus, reliquis 

 minutissimis), corpore sub-globoso longissime piloso caeco, 

 habituque subterraneo fossorio necnon tibiarum tarsorumque 

 structura mirifica abnormali Curculionidis omnibus mihi cog- 

 nitis toto caelo diflfert, 

 Ab cJrv^, unguiculus, et Xe/ttw, reliuquo. 



In its marvellously reduced antennal scajie (which is so exces- 

 sively short as to lie entirely buried within the deep fovea, or abbrevi- 

 ated scrobs, in which it is implanted), as well as in the very unusunl 

 proportions of its 5/\r-jointed funiculus, its total freedom from even 

 the rudiments of eyes, and its most wonderful tibise and feet, this 

 extraordinary genus presents a combination of features perfectly 

 anomalous, and which I believe are quite unparalleled in any 

 Coleopterous insect on record. Indeed, the structure of its 

 tibiae and tarsi are so outrageously abnormal, that, did not the 

 general outward contour of the creature, and the formation of its 

 rostrum, oral organs and antenna; (not to mention its superjiclal 

 points of resemblance with the exponent of the preceding genus), 

 bespeak it as Rhyncophorous, it would have been quite impos- 

 sible to decide to what primary division of the Coleoptcra it 

 should be referred. And althorgh even now I may be mistaken 



