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can scarcely be considered to have been properly described; but as the type 
exists in the British Museum, and shows it to be the same as Empzotes, Pascoe, 
I have adopted the older name, though with much hesitation and regret. Broun’s 
Eurynotia pulcherrima is a synonym of Ancistropterus hochstetteri Redt. The 
insect was ascribed quite erroneously by Redtenbacher to Ancistropterus; and 
as Iam not able to see any character to separate it from Empzotes, I have not 
included Eurynotia as a genus in the table :— 
Thorax without ocular lobes, 
Corbels closed, 
Scrobes minute, 2 . ; : . Niceeana. 
Scrobes distinct, rostrum pterygiate, . » Otiorhynchus. 
Corbels cavernous, 
Front tibize dilated externally at tip, . . Cecyropa. 
Front tibize normal at tip, 
Scrobes short, 
Tip of rostrum not dilated, scrobes 
‘avernous, ; ; : . Nonnotus. 
Tip of rostrum dilated, hind coxz 
moderately distant, . : . Protophormus. 
Tip of rostrum dilated, hind coxz 
very widely distant, . : . Epitimetes. 
Serobes elongate, . : : : . Platyomida. 
Thorax provided with ocular lobes, 
Front coxee separated, : ; : : . Aporolobus. 
Front coxze contiguous, 
Corbels closed, 
Rostrum short, scrobes abbreviate, 
Ocular lobes very feeble, scape short 
and stout, ; ; 5 . Protolobus. 
Ocular lobes definite, scape elongate, Catoptes and Brachyolus. 
Rostrum and scrobes elongate, : . Heterodiscus. 
Corbels cavernous, ? d : , . Inophleeus. 
Crcyropa, Pascoe. 
Rostrum breve, crassum; scrobes breyissime, profunde ; antennarum clava 
breviter ovalis. Tibize anteriores apice extus dilatato. 
This is a very interesting form, reproducing in several respects the characters 
of one of our most familiar European weevils formerly assigned to Cneorhinus, but 
now correctly separated as the genus Philopedon. It differs, however, in some 
very important particulars: Philopedon is one of the genera where the mandi- 
bular scar is present, but only in a rudimentary condition ; whereas, in the New 
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