in the British Museum. 459 



based on Westwood's figure. The type of Heer's genus 

 Curculionites is C. redlenhacheri, Ilccr, from Radoboj. This 

 shows only the ventral surface, but looks like one of the 

 Bracliyrliiiiiuie (Otiorliynchiiue). C viaryinatus, so far as 

 anything shows, could go in the genus Brachyrhinus [Otio- 

 rhi/nchus). Pierce recognises ten families of Curculionoidea, 

 and places these insects in a family Psallidiidie, on the 

 ground that PsaUidium was the first published genus. This 

 change does not seem to mc to be necessary. 



Cetitorhynchus (?) eocenicus, sp. n. (Fig. 2.) 



Elytron convex, 3 mui. long and 2 ram. broad ; inner 

 margin concave, outer strongly convex ; base broad, obtusely 

 angulate about the middle. There are eight sharp longi- 

 tudinal striae, and no visible punctures. The strite are 

 about 190 /A apart. 



Fig. 2. 



Ceutorhynchits (?) eocenicus, Ckll. 



TiOwer Eocene, Woolwich Beds ; Peekham. Caleb Evans 

 collection, lirit. Museum, 14172. 



The specimen is labelled : " 0. E., Peekham, 84-1 "*. Stru- 

 phosomi/s or Cneorldiius.'' It appears to have been recorde 1 

 by Smith, ' Geologist,' iv. (1861) p. 40. It does not apjjeiir 

 to me to belong to the Brachyrhinime, but rather to have 

 been an extrera; ly broad-bodied weevil of the Ctutorhynchtis 

 type, very similar to C. dcyruvutus, Scudd., from the Eocene 

 of ( 'olorailo. 



Ophryusiites yari/neri, sp. n. (Fig. 3.) 



Elytron slightly convex, flattened on disc, about lO'G mm. 

 long and 5 mm. wide ; eight rows of very distinct but only 

 moderately large punctures, about 8 in 2 mm., and in addi- 

 tion a row of small weak punctures next to the outer margin, 

 and a broken row next to the inner margin. The surface is 

 irregularly transversely wrinkled. 



