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medial, moderate, with abrupt oval club; the tip of the beak is 

 broadly blunt, the mandibles somewhat small, dentate and decus- 

 sate. The prosternum does not seem to be impressed and the 

 coxae are rather well separated, the legs normal and the tibiae 

 straight. The prothorax is not tubulate at apex, the basal lobe 

 small, very short, gradual and arcuate and the scutellum quadrate, 

 very free, glabrous and impressed. The type and only known 

 species is the following: 



Camerones semiopacus n. sp. — Oblong-oval, very strongly convex, with opaque 

 prothorax and alutaceous elytra, black, the elytra slightly piceous; vestiture 

 above consisting of extremely remote long stiff pale setae, beneath of shorter, 

 decumbent and sparse claviform scales; beak scarcely arcuate, slightly so apically, 

 thick and opaque, slightly shining distally, as long as the prothorax and separated 

 from the head by a shallow reentrant angle; prothorax convex in lateral profile, 

 a fourth wider than long, the parallel sides strongly, subevenly arcuate, gradually 

 strongly oblique apically, wider at the middle than at base, the punctures small 

 and remote; elytra parallel, the sides gradually arcuate behind the middle to 

 the rather broadly obtuse apex, a fourth longer than wide, as wide as the pro- 

 thorax and two-thirds longer; grooves abrupt, moderate, the obvious punctures 

 along the bottom bearing each a very minute slender squamule; intervals nearly 

 three times as wide as the grooves, with single series of rather large but very 

 shallow, extremely remote punctures; abdomen very evenly convex, somewhat 

 shining and minutely, sparsely punctulate in the type. Length 3.3 mm.; width 

 1.5 mm. Brazil (Santarem). 



It is highly probable that, in spite of the very thick beak, the 

 single known specimen of this species is a female, in which case, it 

 may be possible that there are some peculiar sexual characters 

 pertaining to the male. 



Fishonia n. gen. 



The remarkable species forming the type of this genus is oblong, 

 unusually depressed, shining and subglabrous. The beak is very 

 short and thick, circularly arcuate above in profile but almost 

 straight beneath, and separated from the head by a deep reentrant 

 angle, the mandibles deeply cleft and decussate. The antennae are 

 submedial, the scrobes wide, oblique and attaining the eyes, which 

 are unusually short and transverse; the first funicular joint is 

 nearly as long as the next three, the outer joints gradually somewhat 

 wider and compact, the club large and evenly oval. The pro- 

 sternum is flat or very feebly concave, and separates the coxae by 

 nearly twice their width; it is not modified in the male. The legs 

 are short but not in any way peculiar, the prothorax parallel, 

 tubulate at apex, the basal lobe short and very gradually formed, 

 the scutellum flat, smooth, free, slightly elongate and obtriangular, 

 and the elytra coarsely grooved. The type is the following: 



Fishonia brevinasus n. sp. — Depressed, polished, black, the elytra and under 

 surface piceous, the legs black; sparse dorsal punctures bearing each a short 

 T. L. Casey, Mem. Col. X, Aug. 1922. 



