416 Mr. F. P. Pascoe 07i neio Neotropical Curculionidce. 



as in Naupactus. I am not quite sure that what appears to 

 loe a minute transverse scutellum is really one. 



Athetetes glohtcollis. 



A. oblongus, piceus, squamis griseis hand dense vestitus ; antenuai 

 funiculo articulo secuudo quam primo triplo lougiore. Long. 4 

 Un. 



Hob. Mexico. 



Oblong, pitchy, clothed with greyish approximate scales ; 

 rostrum flat in front, bounded on each side by two sharply 

 defined lines ; anteinige very slender, the scape extending to 

 the prothorax, the second joint of the funicle three times 

 as long as the first, the three next equal in length, but to- 

 gether not longer than the second, the last two shorter, espe- 

 cially the sixth, club oblong-ovate ; prothorax globose, the 

 apex and base truncate ; scutellum inconspicuous ; elytra 

 narrower than the prothorax, gradually rounded from the 

 middle, convex, seriate-punctate, punctures small ; legs with 

 sparse scales, the anterior much longer, with glaucous green 

 scales, and their femora thicker than the others. 



Melactus. 



This generic name is proposed for Cjphus bisjxinus and 

 Cyphus luguhris, but the corbels of the posterior tibiae being 

 open, as in Naupactus, it is to the neighbourhood of that genus 

 that, as Lacordaire has pointed out, it must be referred 

 (see Gen. vi. p. 115). 



Dysphiles. 



OcuU depressi. Bostnim crassiusculum, scrohes arcuatae, iufra 

 ociilos attingentes. Antomm mediocres, funiculo articulis duobus 

 ultimis transversis. Prothorax rotundatus, apice basiqne trun- 

 catus. Scutellum invisiim. Elytra breviter ovata, basi quam pro- 

 thorax baud latiora. Abdomen segraento secundo quam tertio 

 quartoque conjunctis aequali. Pedeshreyes ; /e;«or« crassa ; tibke 

 flexuosse ; tarsi lati ; unguiculi liberi. 



Basfactes is probably the nearest ally of this genus ; but in 

 that genus the scvobe does not reach the eye, and the three 

 intermediate segments of the abdomen are equal in length; 

 the form of the prothorax and elytra are also very different, 

 and, which is of less consequence, the last joint of the funicle 

 is elongate. Lacordaire is in error in saying there is no scu- 

 tellum ; it is distinct enough in a fresh specimen, and covered 



