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immature and showing the sculpture and variegated vestiture 

 much better than the two others captured some years pre- 

 viously by Colonel R- id. This insect has the structural 

 characters of F. brachyomma and turbificatus, Enderl., but 

 it is very different from them in general appearance, 

 resembling a Ccenopsis or Trachyphloeus. It is just 

 possible that the three specimens before me are referable to 

 F. suffbdens, Enderl., the type of which was from Hooker's 

 Point ; but as the author says nothing about the uneven 

 subcarinate prothorax, &c, and the Port Stanley insect is 

 very different from his figure, it must be treated as distinct. 



HAVERSIA, gen. nov. 



Rostrum strongly curved, stout, thickened at the base, about 

 reaching the posterior margin of the anterior coxse, the 

 scrobes lateral, deep, extending from the middle to the eyes ; 

 antennae with a 7-jointed funiculus, 2-7 short, the club 

 acuminare-ovate, with distinct sutures, the scape reaching the 

 eyes; head rather small, convex ; eyes transverse ; prothorax 

 without ocular lobes, truncate at base; scutellun% triangular, 

 covered by the elytra ; elytra elongate, acuminate at tip, 

 obliquely cut off at base, the humeri obtuse; anterior and 

 intermediate cox8o contiguous; posterior coxae separated by 

 the long abdominal process ; metasternum short, not so long 

 as the lateral portions of ventral segment 1, the episterna 

 narrow ; mesothoracic epiraera small, narrow, not ascending ; 

 ventral segments 1 and 2 equal in length laterally, connate 

 at middle, 3 and 4 short, together barely as long as 2, the 

 first suture sinuous, the others straight ; legs short, stout, 

 the femora much thickened, the tibiae subangulate at apex 

 externally ; tarsi broad, joints 1-3 spongy-pubescent beneath, 

 1 and 2 transverse, 3 strongly bilobed,the claws small, stout, 

 free • body elongate, densely clothed with shining scales, 

 apterous. 



Type, H. alboUmbata. 



The insect taken as the type of this genus has the general 

 facies of a small Lixus. It is probably best placed near the 

 subaquatic American genus Endalus, Lee, and it may have 

 similar habits. The elytra are more acuminate and the tarsi 

 broader than in the Palasarctic genus Mecinus. For the 

 present Haversia must be referred to the " Erirrhinides." 

 The species may have been introduced in some way into the 

 Falklands, but this is hardly likely to be the case. 



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