594 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on the 



so coarsely so as in that group), with their costate inter- 

 stices branded with a row of conspicuous subasperated 

 punctures, in its four anterior coxae (although very closely 

 approximated) not being quite contiguous, and in the third 

 articulation of its feet not being in the slightest degree 

 widened, and remarkably simple. The punctation of its 

 head and prothorax is extremely dense and substrigulose ; 

 and the latter has a polished line, or faint keel, evanescent 

 before and behind, down the centre. 



122. STENOSCELIS (Wollaston, Journ. of Ent. i. 141. 

 1861). Of all the Cossonids which have hitherto been 

 described, perhaps Stenoscelis makes the nearest approach 

 to the sub-Curculionideous forms of the Hylastidce, its 

 shortly cylindric body, which is a little asperated (as well 

 as just appreciably widened, and obtusely rounded) poste- 

 riorly, having much in common with such genera as 

 Dendroctonus. In its thickened head, short, triangular 

 rostrum, and sunken eyes, as well as in its exceedingly 

 abbreviated antennae and its elongated slender feet, it is 

 . on much the same pattern as the three preceding groups ; 

 nevertheless its prothorax is shorter, or more transverse, 

 more constricted anteriorly, and subsinuate on either side 

 in the middle, its four anterior coxae are more completely 

 approximated, and the third joint of its feet (although 

 scarcely at all widened) is not quite simple, being evi- 

 dently, though minutely, bilobed. In the fact of its 

 scutellum being nearly obsolete it has a greater affinity 

 with Eurycorynes than with Calciforus or Brachytemnus ; 

 but its capitulum (which is oval, and on the ordinary type) 

 is not in any degree anomalously developed, and agrees 

 better therefore with the last of those three genera. The 

 three exponents of it which have been hitherto detected 

 are from the island of St. Helena, the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and the Japanese archipelago. 



SPECIES NOV^:, IN HOC TKACTATU NUNC DESCRIPTJE. 



GenUS 1. NOTIOMIMETES. 



Wollaston (vide, ante, p. 440). 



Notiomimetes Pascoei, n. sp. 



N. elliptico-fusiformis, depressiusculus, subnitidus, cal- 

 vus, rufo-piceus; capite immerso, rostro parallelo, fere 



