428 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Neotropical Curculionidoz. 



dilatato. Elytra prothorace multo latiora. Femora infra den- 

 tata. Abdomen segraento primo recto. 



In all these characters this genus differs from Compsus, 

 Eustales, and their allies. The anterior tibiae are produced 

 at the apex, but not into a naked mucro, as in Compsus ; and 

 in this respect it agrees with Platyomus. 



m iersis 

 Long. 



Clceoteges virosus. 



C. ovatus, squamis fuscis approximates, aliis in maculis adsper? 

 parvis viridibus, tectus ; scutello majusculo, transverso. Lon 

 5| lin. 



Hah. Chontales. 



Ovate, covered with approximate brownish scales, much 

 darker on the back, and on which are a few small scattered 

 pure green spots ; the sides, legs, and under surface more or 

 less obscurely blotched with pale brown and green ; rostrum 

 flattish above, the sides between the eye and the beginning of 

 the scrobe bent down at an angle ; antennse with a rather 

 short funicle, greenish, the club dark ; prothorax narrow an- 

 teriorly, rounded at the sides, the basal portion suddenly ex- 

 panded at the sides against the elytra, the disk coarsely granu- 

 late; scutellum rather large, transverse; elytra flattish above, 

 raised on each side of the scutellum, transversely punctured, 

 the interstices, except the third, scarcely raised, the third 

 terminating abruptly at the deflexed portion in a short com- 

 pressed gibbosity, below which is another, but smaller, on 

 the fifth interstice, the apices mucronate at the suture. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The Geological Antiquity of Insects. — Twelve Papers on Fossil 

 Entomology. By Herbert Goss, F.L.S. 8vo. London : Van 

 Voorst, 1880. 



The subject of Fossil Entomology is certainly one which has not 

 attracted many investigators. In this country scarcely any one 

 hitherto seems to have devoted any continuous attention to fossil 

 insects ; and even on the continent the students of insect-remains 

 are so few that the more important of them might almost be counted 

 on the fingers of one hand. This is due, no doubt, to a considerable 

 extent, to the fact that the occurrence of fossil insects is exceed- 

 ingly sporadic : beds containing such objects occur only here and 

 there ; and when they turn up in quantity, the specimens obtained 



