300 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Neotropical CurculionidcB. 



long ; second joint of the funicle a little longer than the first, 

 the next four turbinate, the last longer than any of the pre- 

 ceding four; club elliptic; prothorax narrowed, longer than 

 broad, the disk unequal, the sides deeply corrugated and 

 having an obtuse tubercle just before the middle, ocular lobes 

 very prominent ; scutellum raised, small, rounded ; elytra 

 much compressed posteriorly, abruptly declivous at the apex, 

 above the slight preapical callus a stout conical tubercle, a 

 smaller one on each side of the disk nearer the shoulder, the 

 latter prolonged into a horizontal conical tubercle ; body be- 

 neath and legs with closely placed scales of grey speckled with 

 brown. 



A very distinct species ; an example in the British Museum 

 bears Dupont's catalogue name here adopted. 



Cydianirus ornatus. 



C. late ovatus, squamulis flavis sat dense vestitus, supra nigro- 

 maculatus ; prothorace integro, leviter punctato ; elytris brevius- 

 ciilis, subtiliter striato-punctatis. Long. 4^ lin. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Broadly ovate, almost wholly covered with rather closely 

 set yellow scales, above with black spots ; head convex in 

 front, black posteriorly ; rostrum triangularly flattened an- 

 teriorly ,• antennge with yellow scales at the base, gradually 

 greyish and pilose towards the tip ; funicle with the second 

 joint nearly twice as long as the first ; club elongate, slender, 

 fusiform ; prothorax transverse, slightly contracted at the 

 base, rounded at the sides, four black spots on the disk and 

 one on each side ; scutellum oblong ; elytra rather short, 

 much broader at the base than the prothorax, striate-punctate, 

 punctures masked by the scales, each elytron with thirteen 

 round very distinct black spots ; body beneath and legs closely 

 covered with pale yellow and saffron-coloured scales ; first 

 abdominal suture straight. 



This species, of which I have only seen the one example 

 in my own collection, bears a striking resemblance to the 

 Madagascar Stigmatraclielus ornatus^ but differs entirely in 

 the rostrum, antennae, &c, 



Dacnieus. 



Antennce scapo brevissimo. Prothorax lobis oeularibus obsoletis. 

 Caetera ut in EMgo. 



The sole exponent of this genus at present has a very diffe- 

 rent aspect from any thing in Rhigus or in Cydianirus ; but to 

 the latter it might perhaps have been referred but for the 



