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truncatis, antennis pedibusque brevioribus, — illls in medio 
(iiec ante medium) rostri insertis, et his paulo valioribus, 
unco tibiali longiore robustiore ac magis curvato, tarsisque 
multo brevioribus ac fere simplicibus (articulo tertio prasce- 
dentibus vix majore et vix bilobo). 
A xovgog, lutum, et Seju-aj, corpus. 
The prima facie aspect and outline of the opake and 
deeply sculptured little weevil for which I have been com- 
pelled to establish the present genus is a good deal sugges- 
tive of Calandra ; but its 7-jointed fimiculus, medially- 
inserted antennae, widely separated eyes, and short, filiform 
feet, apart fi"om the other details of its structure, show it 
to be an undoubted Cossonid. Indeed, in the tendency 
of its surface to become unequally incrusted with mud-hke 
scales (or which, perhaps, has more the appearance of a 
kind of scaly deposit) it approaches Pholidoforus ; but in 
that genus the clothing is not only very much denser and 
more regular, but the scales are of an ordinary character, 
many of them being suberect (though short) and setiform. 
In other respects Coprodema differs from Pholidoforus in 
being rather smaller, and less acute both before and behind, 
and more coarsely and conspicuously sculptured, in having 
its elytra appreciably truncated at their hinder apex (though 
perhaps not sufficiently so to expose any decided portion 
of the pygidium), and in its limbs being very considerably 
shorter, — the antennae, moreover, being implanted in the 
middle of the rostrum (instead of somewhat before it), 
whilst its tibial hook is more largely developed and its 
feet very much less so (the third joint being small and 
almost simple, and the terminal one comparatively abbre- 
viated and but Httle clavate, with the claws smaller). 
6. Coprodema calandrceformis, n. sp. 
C. subfusiformis, nigra, opaca, parce inasqualiter sub- 
cinereo-squamoso-lutosa ; capite prothoraceqiie profunde, 
rugose et confertim punctatis (punctis in hoc grossis), 
rostro versus apicem rufescentiore et ibidem vix sculptu- 
rato, oculis omnino demissis ; prothorace mox pone apicem 
transversim constricto ; elytris proflinde, confertim et grosse 
punctato-sulcatis, interstitiis alte et argute costatis ac (oculo 
fortissime armato) minutissime et vix perspicue seriatim 
setulosis, ad apicem ipsum truncatis ; antennis pedibusque 
brevibus, robustis, rufescentioribus, capitulo sat magno. 
