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femoribus rauticis : tibiis ad apicem in uncum inflexum, 
necnon ad internum in spinulam parvam prodnctis: tar sis 
longiiisculis, art." I"'" secundo sensim longiore, 3''° latius- 
culo et evidenter bilobo, ult.'"° elongate clavato, unguiculis 
sat magnis armato. 
Obs. — Genus inter Cossonidas corpore dense squamoso 
insignum. Aliter conspicuum est forma subangusta, in 
medio parallelil, antice et postice attenuata, antennis longi- 
usculis, gracilibus, mox ante medium rostri insertis, oculis 
parvis sed prominentibus, funiculi articulo secundo tertio 
viz longiore, tarsorumque articulo tertio prascedentibus 
evidenter latiore atque bilobo. 
A foXjj, squama, et <psqa^, fero. 
In its densely scalt/ surface the present insect affords a 
curious exception to what is usual amongst the CossonidcB; 
for although it is true that Tetratemnus, Pentacoptiis, 
Coprodema and Exodema are hkewise remarkable for the 
few mud-\iikQ, scales with which they would seem to be 
more or less partially incrusted, in Pholidoforus the body 
is regularly and somewhat closely beset with short, thick, 
fulvo-cinereous scaliform seta3, — a portion of which are 
slightly erected, and the others altogether decumbent. Yet 
the structure of its abdomen, tibiie, eyes, rostrum, and 
7-jointed funiculus show it to be an unmistakeable member 
of this subfamily. In other respects it may be known by 
its narrowish and fusiform outline (it being parallel in the 
middle, but acute both before and behind), by its rather 
long and slender antennre being inserted just before the 
middle of its appreciably curved rostrum, by its eyes being 
small and rounded but very prominent, by its funiculus 
having the second joint scarcely at all longer than the 
third, and by its feet being a good deal developed and 
lengthened, — their third articulation being rather broad 
(for the Cossonidce) and bilobed. 
5. Pholidoforus squamosus, n. sp. 
P. angustulus, elongato-subfusiformis (antice posticeque 
acutus), brunneo-niger, opacus, squamisque fusco-cinereis 
(suberectis et demissis, necnon interdum fulvescenti-tinctis) 
plus minus dense tectus ; capite prothoraceque (subter 
squamis) profunde et rugose punctatis, rostro longiusculo, 
subarcuato, oculis parvis, rotundatis, prominentibus; elytris 
antice parallelis, postice aciitis, (subter squamis) profunde, 
confertim et grosse sulcato-pimctatis, interstitiis seriatim 
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