292 Capt. T. Broun on new 



beliind. The metasteimum has a deep, narrow, longitudinal 

 groove. 



Length 5|, breadth If lines. 



Capleston. Two ; one much mutilated, this is mounted on 

 its back, and it is from this specimen that the sexual cha- 

 racters have been derived. Both were sent to me by- 

 Mr. A. T. Cavell. 



Group Otiorhyncliidge. 



Hygrochus oculatus, sp. n. 



Subopaque, fuscous, antennse and tarsi ferruginous ; elytra 

 clothed with very minute scales of an obscure pale reddish 

 colour, the raised parts with yellowish setee ; legs with minute 

 squamse and erect longish setre. 



Rostrum rather shorter and about one third narrower than 

 the thorax, rather flat, with a fine central carina ; there are 

 also two broad ill-defined grooves covered with minute reddish 

 scales. Scape gradually thickened, opaque, covered with 

 very small and a few longer erect setce. Funiculus red, 

 shining, with yellowish hairs, the two basal joints of equal 

 length, third distinctly longer than broad, seventh bead-like, 

 slightly broader than sixth. Cluh densely pubescent, elongate- 

 oval, acuminate, indistinctly four-jointed. Thorax longer 

 than broad, a little contracted in front, slightly wider near 

 the front than it is elsewhere, behind nearly straight-sided, 

 base and apex truncate ; the surface slightly uneven, not 

 visibly punctate, with a few minute scattered black warts ; 

 covered with small, depressed, slender, obscure reddish scales. 

 Elytra cordiform, widest behind the shoulders ; these are 

 curvate, so that the base scarcely exceeds the thorax in 

 breadth ; they are gradually narrowed backwards, the poste- 

 rior declivity is much narrowed but not quite vertical, the 

 sides are inflexed ; their sculpture consists of rather shallow 

 irregular series of punctiform impressions and a few small 

 wart-like elevations ; the dorsum is a little uneven, the 

 humeral regions are depressed, there are two indistinct basal 

 elevations, and four slight setigerous elevations on the top of 

 the declivity, two on each elytron. Tihiiv a little flexuous, 

 mucronate. Tarsi with the third joint deeply lobate, but 

 only moderately broad, it is more evidently pilose than the 

 others. 



Underside with some fine depressed yellowish scales. 

 Front coxal cavities large, open in front. Basal segment of 

 abdomen truncate between the coxse, flattened, nearly twice 



