Mr. T. \'. Wollaston i>n tin' Cultopteni of St. Jhlonn. 4(H 



tion to the Cryj)topha(/i\ assures \\\v that lie is not aware of 

 any species upon record with whicli it can V>e niaili- to a^ree. 

 Ajiart tVoni its rather small size, convex body, and dark ruf'o- 

 t'errui;inous hue, its most distiiu-tive features consist in its 

 extremely coarsely and densely punctured siu-face, which is 

 Iteset all over (thou^di especially on tlu- elytra) with very 

 elon«^'atc and nearly erect, soft, whitish hairs. Its limbs, too, 

 are marvellously slender — even more so, perhaps, than is the 

 case in the particular section of the G^ronp (represented by the 

 ('. vint in Europe, and C. hespt^rius in the Canarian ar<;hi- 

 ])elae:o) to which it belonirs. Its incrassated anterior ]jrotho- 

 racic an<?le is rather largely develoj)ed, with the hinder point 

 of it more or less acute ; but there seems to be no central 

 lateral denticle, the sides bein_c; merely minutely crenulated — 

 so minutely, indeed, as sometimes to appear nearly simple. 



Fam. Elateridse. 



Genus AxcHAs^TUS. 



Leconte, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. x. 459 (1853). 



Anchastus aiJanticus. 



Anchasius atlanficus, Cand., Mon. Elat. ii. 409, t. 3. f. 8 (1859). 

 Hcterwleres puitcticoUis, Woll., Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. 317 (18G9). 



It would a])pear that the Elatcrid whicli I described two 

 years ago under the name of ^'' Heteroderes puncticolUs " is the 

 Anchastus atlanticus of Cand^ze's Monograph; so that the 

 above correction in its synonymy becomes necessary. Mr. 

 Janson informs me that its general fades is almost exactly 

 that of a HeferodereSj and it is not surprising, therefore, that 

 I should have referred it to that group ; and he furtlier adds 

 that it is totally unlike any Anchastus with wdiicli he is 

 acquainted. 



Fam. CurculionidsB. 



(Subfem. COSSONIDES.) 

 Genus MiCROXYLOBIUS. 



Chevrolat, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. i. 98 (1836). 



Of this interesting little Cossonideous group three additional 

 ex])onents have been brought to light, tlirougli the careful 

 researches of Mr. Melliss, since my enumeration of the St.- 

 Jlelcna Coleoptera two years ago. They all of them belong 

 to the first section of the genus, regarded by me as the typical 

 one, in which the femora are totally unarmed ; and one of 

 them (the J/, cossonoides) is so large compared with the re- 

 mainder, and so dissimilar in the elongation of its rostrum and 



