544 Mr. T. Vernon WoUastou on the 
48. Aphanommata {nov. gen.). — The insect wliich 
constitutes the type of the present genus was taken by 
myself, from out of rotten Euphorbia-stems, in the island 
of St. Antonio of the Cape Verde archijielago ; and, to a 
certain extent, it combines in a remarkable degree the 
characters of Phloeophagus and Rhyncolus, — agreeing 
Avith the former in its comparatively slender limbs, and its 
more elongated first tarsal and second funiculus joints, as 
well as in the fact of its club being abrupt and its eyes 
depressed ; but with the latter in its body being less con- 
vex and more parallel, its rostnim shorter and thicker, its 
scutellum conspicuous, and in the greater length both of 
its metasternum and (more cylindrical) prothorax. It 
possesses, however, many distinctive featm'es of its own, in 
which it recedes from both of those genera, — such, for 
instance, as the inferior position of its small and sunken 
eyes (which are scarcely visible when the insect is viewed 
fi'om above), its narrower and more parallel outline, and 
its greatly elongated metasternum ; in all of which respects 
it approaches far nearer to Himatium. And it is further 
remarkable for its black, shining, and completely bald 
surface, for its triangular (though, at the same time, 
somewhat eZo/.'(7«fe-triangular) rostrum, for its transverse 
scutellum, and for the third articulation of its exceedingly 
long and slender feet being small and simple. 
49. Brachtscapus {nov. gen.). — The affinities of this 
curious genus (which is founded on an insect fi*om Katal 
wliich has been communicated by ]\Ir. Fry) are somewhat 
obscure ; for while it possesses the short and triangular 
rostrum, the rather approximated eyes, and the greatly 
abbreviated scape of certain of the sub-Hylastideous forms 
of the Cossonides, I nevertheless do not believe that it has 
in reality anything to do with those particiilar genera, — 
its completely suffused first and second abdominal seg- 
ments, and the exact degree of separation of its coxn^, no 
less than the structure of its funiculus and elongate, 
conspicuously annulated club, its external contour and 
sculpture, and the shape and proportions of its prothorax 
(which is regularly oval, and distinctly naiTowcr than the 
elytra), being all of them far more on the pattern which 
obtains amongst the Phloeophagi, And moreover, when 
we further consider that there is a considerable apjiroach 
to its j)eculiar shape of rostrum in the preceding genus, 
Ajihanommata (in wliich too the surface is shining, bald. 
