Mr. T. V. Wollaston on the Coleoptera of St. Helena. 413 



funiculus is composed of only five joints (instead of seven), 

 whilst there is no trace of a pectoral groove for the reception 

 of its rostrum. It is consequently excluded from the whole 

 subfamily Cruptorhynchides by this latter circumstance alone:, 

 whilst from the Cossonides, with some of the genera of which 

 it would agree as regards the former, it is altogether remote." 

 But now that its atHnitics have been satisfactorily cleared up 

 by Lacordaire, I feel that no further comment on its structure 

 is necessary. 



I. Funiculi arp'^ 2"^"* primo sublongior. 



47. Nesiotes squamosus. 



N. ovatus, nigro-piceus, opacus, alutaceus (nee punctatus, ncc tuber- 

 culatus), squamis fulvo-cinereis crassis demissis phis minus ves- 

 titus ; prothorace siibconvexo, mox ante medium rotundato-am- 

 pliato, postice angustiore subrecto ; elytris convexis, vcntricosis, 

 in medio facile rotundato-ampUatis et ibidem prothorace midto 

 latioribus ; antennis gracilibus, rufo-ferrugineis, basin versus 

 clarioribus ; pcdibus crassis, squamosis, tarsis clarioribus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 1|. 



Nesiotes squamosus^ WoU., loc. cit. 212, pi. 14. f. 3 (1861). 



The only examples of this interesting little Curculionid 

 which I have yet seen are two which were taken at St. Helena 

 by the late Mr. Bewicke, during a few hom-s' collecting in that 

 island, en route from the Cape of Good Hope to Madeira, in 

 1860. Apart from the greater length of its second funiculus- 

 joint, it may at once be known from the following species by 

 its much broader and more ovate or ventricose outline (the 

 elytra about the middle being very much wider than the pro- 

 thorax), and by its sm*facc, when denuded of the decumbent 

 fulvescent scales, being simply alutaceous throughout, having 

 no appearance of eitlier punctures or tubercles. If, also, my 

 two specimens may be relied upon, it would seem to be free 

 from the short erect set(e which (in addition to the coarse mud- 

 like scales) stud the N. asperatus. 



II. Funiculi art"^ 2'^"^ primo subbrevior. 



48. Nesiotes asjyeratus^ n. sp. 



N. ovato-oblongus, elongatus, angustulus, nigro-piceus, opacus, alu- 

 taceus necnon grosse grauulato-asperatus, squamis fulvo-cinereis 

 quasi lutosis setulisque brcvibus crectis dense vestitus ; prothorace 

 subinoequaU, (subter squamis) tubercidis crebre asperato, ad latera 

 leviter rotuudato ; elytris aiigustidis, subovato-elongatis, pone 

 medium facile \ix rotundatis, (subter squamis) tuberculis in spa- 



