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Epizorus. 



Characteres fere ut in Mytntro, sad scrobes apice profundse, versus 

 oculum gradatim desinentes et elytra postice baud producta. 



The exponent of this genus is a large and striking insect 

 clothed above with small bright golden-green scales in the 

 intervals of numerous minute dull black granules, which, to a 

 certain extent, neutralizes their brilliancy. As in Ebjfrurus, 

 there is a well-marked scutellum. The only sjDccimen I have 

 seen was kindly presented to me by Mr. Simpson, of the 

 Royal Geographical Society. 



Epizorus Simpsoni. 



E. ovatus, modice convexus, niger, squamulis minutis aureo-viridi- 

 bus granulisque numerosis indatus; scutello parvo, transverso. 

 Long. 12 lin. (rostr. inch). 



Hah. Salomon Islands. 



Ovate, moderately convex, black, above with numerous 

 black granules, the intervals clothed with minute golden-green 

 scales ; rostrum stout, flattish, continuous with the head, in 

 front a narrow raised median line, terminating in a triangular 

 smooth glossy space ; antennas terminal ; scape extending to 

 the prothorax ; the two basal joints of the funicle longest; 

 club narrowly lanceolate ; prothorax slightly transverse, 

 rounded at the sides, truncate at the base and apex ; scutellum 

 short, transverse ; elytra broader than the prothorax at the 

 base, strongly rounded at the sides, faintly striate ; body 

 beneath with pale scattered hairs and scales ; first abdominal 

 segment as long as the three next together, separated from 

 the second by a slightly curved line ; legs roughly setose ; 

 tibise nearly straight ; claws small, aj)proximate. 



DiNICHUS. 



Rostrum subtenue ; srrohes lineares, laterales, Antennce mediocres ; 

 funiculis articulis duabus basalibus elougatis, caeteris moniliform- 

 ibus ; clava breviter ovata. Ocidi parvi, rotundati. Prothorax 

 Bubangustus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Scutellum nullum. Elytra 

 basi prothorace baud latiora. Femora mutica, in medio crassiora ; 

 tihicB apice inermes, postica3 corbellis apertis ; tarsi breves, articulo 

 penultimo subbilobo ; ungukuU liberi. Abdomen segmentis 

 duobus basalibus ampliatis. Metasternum baud elongatum. 



An anomalous genus which I have placed in my collection 

 after the Hylobiinffi, but from which it differs in its small 

 round eyes, lateral scrobes, unarmed tibiae, and short linear 



