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tubercles in the middle ; scutellura ovate ; elytra much 

 broader than the prothorax at the base, the sides subparallel, 

 shoulders shortly rounded, a line of white scales at the base, 

 curving round the shoulders, and nearly meeting its fellow 

 at the suture behind the scutellum, tubercles fewer and 

 smaller, with punctures in the intervals ; body beneath dark 

 brown ; mesosternum elevated and prominent ; tibise mode- 

 rately compressed. 



Differs from the preceding in the prothorax not prolonged 

 at the apex, the oblong elytra, and the more slender and 

 less compressed tibige. 



Edesius. 



Rostrum, validum, basi subito arcuatum ; aerobes infra rostrum cito 

 desinentes. OcuU laterales. Prothorax parvus, lobis ocularibus 

 apiceque productis, basi bisinuatus. Elytra ampla, in medio ele- 

 vata, lateribus carinatis. Pectus profunde canaliculatum. Coxce 

 anticae basi contiguse. Mesosternum depressum ; femora infra 

 dentata ; tibice arcuatae, apice uncinatae ; ungues apice fissiles. 



This genus would probably be referable to Conotrachelus 

 if it did not constitute, as Lacordaire has observed, " not one 

 but many genera." Schonherr gives as its type C. diaconituSy 

 and as one of its characters, a " long, linear, and often fili- 

 form " rostrum, only the base of which can be received in tlie 

 pectoral canal, which is bounded behind by the anterior coxa^. 

 In this genus, owing to its comparative shortness and the 

 depressed mesosternum, the rostrum can be retained to its 

 full extent. The species described below has, at the first 

 glance, much the appearance of Cionus thapsus. 



Edesius ohesus. 



E. breviter ovatus, squamositate albida griseo-varia indutus, supra 

 insequalis, tuberculatus. Long. 3| lin. 



Hab. Para. 



Shortly ovate, covered with a whitish squamosity, varied or 

 clouded with greyish, above irregular and tuberculate ; ros- 

 trum ferruginous, with a carina on its lower third, scrobes 

 commencing near the apex ; antennae pale ferruginous, the 

 two basal joints of the funicle equal and elongate, the rest 

 shortly obconic ; club ovate, distinctly jointed ; eyes in repose 

 covered by the ocular lobes ; prothorax transversely conic, 

 gibbous in the middle, hollowed out at the sides and base ; 

 scutellum oblong, elevated ; elytra twice as broad at the base 

 as the prothorax, very convex, shoulders prominent, apex 

 rounded, indistinctly subseriate-punctate, the third interstice 

 with three tubercles, the middle one greatly elevated and Ion- 



