in the British Museum. 



71 



Chrysomeliteshartonicas, sp. n. (I^^ig- 8-) 



Elytra probably about 7 mm. long (6 mm. preserved), 

 3 mm. wide ; apex very obtuse, subtruncate ; ten very finely 

 punctured strife, sharp and distinct, with the arrangement 

 siiown in the figure. No markings are preserved. 



Bartonian. The label is lost, but the soft white iron-stained 

 rock agrees with that of 19022, from the Bagshot Beds, 

 Bournemouth [Gardner^ I have marked tiie specimen X . 



The form agrees with the Chrysomelidce. 



Curculionites optitmis, sp. n. (Fig. 9.) 



Elytra probably about 14 mm. long (11 mm. preserved), 

 6'5 mm. wide ; nearly parallel-sided ; humeral angle very 

 distinct ; ten rows of very distinct but irregularly placed 

 punctures, the innermost row double and the outermost more 

 or less so. The fijrure shows the arrangement of tlie rows. 



Fijr. 9. 



Curculionites optimus, sp u. 



Bartonian, Lower Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth. British 

 Museum, 12869, with reverse. 



It was purchased from F. H. Butler in 1909, but came 

 from the Nevil Jones collection. 



Erotylites (gen. nov.) wallacei, sp. n. (Fig. 10.) 



Elytra about 12-3 mm. long, 4*8 mm. broad, very convex, 

 the apex broad, but with a sharp point; surface (abradcMl in 

 middle) beset with fine distinct punctures, which run mure or 

 less in rows, as shown in the figure. 



