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hitherto. The present insect is certainly I think referable to the 

 tribe, though it cannot be placed in any known genus. I have 

 not an example in my collection of either of the two genera (the 

 African Psorodes and the N. American Meracantha) on which 

 M. Lacordaire founded the tribe, and so cannot very confidently 

 remark on the affinities of the genus I am characterising, but I 

 judge it to be not very near either of the two, as it evidently 

 differs from them by its femora without teeth and its prothorax 

 without lateral carina?. In general appearance it resembles a 

 Chalcopterus but is at once distinguishable from that genus by 

 its very short metasternum. 



A. Championi, sp. nov. iEneus (exemplis nonnullis viridi- vel 

 cupreo-micantibus); capite inter oculos crebre aspere punc- 

 tulato ; prothorace subtiliter minus perspicue punctulato, 

 transverso, antice supra caput (a latere viso) fortiter declivi, 

 lateribus haud marginatis ; scutello la?vi brevi; elytris grosse 

 seriatim foveolatis, interstitiis angustis convexis. Long., 

 8 I; lat., 4 I. 

 N. Queensland ; sent by Mr. French. 



CURCULIONIDJE. 



car (gen. nov. ; ? Erirhininarum). 

 Corpus pubescens ; rostrum prothorace sat longius, minus robus- 

 tum, subcylindricum, leviter arcuatum ; scrobes breves sub- 

 basales infera? ; antennae fere recta? (vix geniculate), ad 

 basin fere contigua?, scapo brevi, clava a funiculo vix dis- 

 tincta (hujus quam funiculi articulis inter se haud magis 

 arete conjunctis); oculi valde leviter sed minus subtiliter 

 granulati ; prothorax, subcylindricus sed antice angustatus, 

 quam elytra sat angustior, lobis ocularibus nullis ; scutellum 

 modicum ; elytra sat lata ; prosternum ante coxas minus 

 elongatum ; coxa? antica? contigua?, intermedia? modice ap- 

 proximate ; femora mutica ; tibia? valida?, apice aperta? 

 inermes ; tarsi modici, articulo 3° alte bilobo ; unguiculi 

 divaricati intus sinuati ; pygidium elytris tectum ; segmen- 

 tum ventrale 2 um quam l um multo brevius, quam 3 am parum 

 longius ; segmenta intermedia ad latera vix angulata ; 

 metasternum modicum. 



The small Curculionid for which I propose this new generic 

 name is a most perplexing species and difficult to place in any of 

 M. Lacordaire's " Tribes." There is no doubt of its appertaining 

 to the aggregate which M. Lacordaire calls "Section B of 

 Phalanx I. of the Curculionides Phanerognathes Synmerides." 

 On first consideration it seems to appertain to that portion of the 

 said "Section" in which the antenna? are straight and have no 



