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So iadoeteeme sat cne ss per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et eircitm vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Tte, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, De pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.” 
N. Parthenii Giannetlasi, Wel. 1, 
No. 13. JANUARY 1919. 
].—On the African Genera of Wingless Brachyderine with 
Connate Claws (Coleoptera, Curculionide), By Guyve ae 
Marsnatt, D.Se. 
[Plate I.] 
Havine had occasion recently to identify a number of 
South African weevils of the genus Strophosomus, it became 
evident that several readily separable groups had been 
associated under this name; and, moreover, as might have 
been anticipated, a comparison of the Hthiopian species 
with the typical Muropean forms reveals the presence of 
constant differences, which render it desirable that they 
should be separated generically. This has necessitated an 
examination of all the allied African genera, for which 
a synoptic key is-here given. Unfortunately, two genera, 
each comprising a single species, are unknown to me and 
have therefore been pane viz. : Asdophronus, Schh., from 
Natal, and Blosyridius, Frm. (C.. Re Ent: Bele. xxxv. 1891, 
p- 298), from Somaliland. ‘The former, judging from Lacor- 
daire’s description of the tarsi, is related to Mimaulus, and 
the latter will come near Proscephaladeres. Schoduherr has 
also assigned to the genus neorrhinus three South African 
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