284 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
condensing the account of the author just cited, referable, 
however, to European species. 
1. Rhinomaceride.—The European species deposits the 
eggs in the male flowers of Pinus maritimus, the development 
of which is thus prevented. I may be allowed to observe 
that this synthetic genus, the nearest approach in the 
Rhynchophora to the lower Heteromera, and therefore the 
representative of old forms clings to an old and synthetic 
type of vegetation. 
2. Rhynchitide.—Some of the species of Rhynchites roll 
leaves in the manner of the next family; others deposit their 
eggs in young fruit, the kernel of which is eaten by the 
larva; others, again, place the eggs in the undeveloped buds 
of trees, which are thus destroyed. 
3. Altelabide.—In the spring the females roll up the 
leaves of the trees, and deposit in each an egg. After 
emerging from the egg the young larve eat the inside layer 
of the case which covers them, which they probably leave at 
a later period, when their growth is complete, to perfect their 
metamorphosis under ground. 
These three families are of small extent, and but little need 
be said regarding their classification. 
RHINOMACERID,. 
This family is represented in our Fauna by two species,— 
one on each slope of the Continent,—and is easily recognized 
by the depressed, curved, and acute mandibles, and distinct 
labrum. The pygidium is covered by the elytra, which are 
punctured, without any appearance of striz. On the inner 
face there is no trace of a lateral fold; the epipleure are 
indistinct. 
ATTELABIDA. 
Four species of Attelabus on the Atlantic slope are the 
only representatives thus far known in our Fauna. The beak 
is stouter than in the preceding family, and the mandibles 
thicker and stronger; the epipleurz are quite distinct, and 
there is no trace of a lateral fold on the inner face of the 
elytra; the pygidium is not covered by the elytra, and is 
impressed along its upper margin for the reception of the 
