544 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 



48. APHANOMMATA (nov. gen.}. The insect which 

 constitutes the type of the present genus was taken by 

 myself, from out of rotten Euphorbia-stems, in the island 

 of St. Antonio of the Cape Verde archipelago ; and, to a 

 certain extent, it combines in a remarkable degree the 

 characters of Phlceophagus and Rhyncolus, agreeing 

 with the former in its comparatively slender limbs, and its 

 more elongated first tarsal and second funiculus joints, as 

 well as in the fact of its club being abrupt and its eyes 

 depressed ; but with the latter in its body being less con- 

 vex and more parallel, its rostrum shorter and thicker, its 

 scutellum conspicuous, and in the greater length both of 

 its metasternum and (more cylindrical) prothorax. It 

 possesses, however, many distinctive features of its own, in 

 which it recedes from both of those genera, such, for 

 instance, as the inferior position of its small and sunken 

 eyes (which are scarcely visible when the insect is viewed 

 from above), its narrower and more parallel outline, and 

 its greatly elongated metasternum ; in all of which respects 

 .it approaches far nearer to Himatium. And it is further 

 remarkable for its black, shining, and completely bald 

 .surface, for its triangular (though, at the same time, 



somewhat e/oTz^afe-triangular) rostrum, for its transverse 

 scutellum, and for the third articulation of its exceedingly 

 long and slender feet being small and simple. 



49. BRACHYSCAPUS (nov. gen.}. The affinities of this 

 curious genus (which is founded on an insect from Natal 

 which has been communicated by Mr. Fry) are somewhat 



. obscure ; for while it possesses the short and triangular 

 rostrum, the rather approximated eyes, and the greatly 

 . abbreviated scape of certain of the sub-Hylastideous forms 

 , of the Cossonides, I nevertheless do not believe that it has 

 . in reality anything to do with those particular genera, 

 . its completely suffused first and second abdominal seg- 

 ments, and the exact degree of separation of its coxas, no 

 . less than the structure of its funiculus and elongate, 

 conspicuously annulated club, its external contour and 

 sculpture, and the shape and proportions of its prothorax 

 (which is regularly oval, and distinctly narrower than the 

 elytra), being all of them far more on the pattern which 

 obtains amongst the Phlceophagi. And moreover, when 

 we further consider that there is a considerable approach 

 to its peculiar shape of rostrum in the preceding genus, 

 Aphanommata (in which too the surface is shining, bald, 



