in the British Museum. 



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Chrysomelites hartonicus, sp. n. (Fig. 8.) 



Elytra probably about 7 mm. long (6 mm. preserver!), 

 3 mm. wide ; apex very obtuse, subtruncate ; ten very finely 

 punctured strise, sharp and distinct, with the arrangement 

 shown in the figure. No markings are preserved. 



Bartonian. The label is lost, but the soft white iron-stained 

 rock agrees witli that of 19022, from the Bagshot Beds, 

 Bournemouth (Gardner). I have marked the specimen x . 



The form agrees with the Chrysomelidse. 



Curculionites optimus, sp. n. (Fig. 9.) 



Elytra probably about 14 mm. long (11 mm. preserved), 

 6*5 mm. wide ; nearly parallel-sided ; humeral angle very 

 distinct ; ten rows of very distinct but irregularly placet I 

 punctures, the innermost row double and the outermost more 

 or less so. The figure shows the arrangement of the rows. 



Fig. 9. 



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; It* 



Curculionites optimus, sp n. 



Bartonian, Lower Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth. British 

 Museum, 12869, with reverse. 



It was purchased from F. H. Butler in 1909, but came 

 from the Nevil Jones collection. 



Erotylites (gen. nov.) wallacei i sp. n. (Fig. 10.) 



Elytra about 12'3 mm. long, 4*8 mm. broad, very convex, 

 the apex broad, but with a sharp point; surface (abraded in 

 middle) beset with fine distinct punctures, which run more or 

 less in rows, as shown in the figure. 



