594 Mr. Pascoe's descriptions of Curcullonidse. 



DifEers from S. Inguhris in its broader outline, finer granu- 

 lations, and the prothorax granulate, not punctate. 



Siteutes cceruleatus. 



S. late subovatus; prothorace lasvi, nitide rufo-testaceo ; elytris 

 subtiliter grannlatis, cferuleo-squamulosis. Long. 5-G lin. 

 Hab. Yule Island. 



Broadly ovate, head, rostrum, and antennae as in the last, the 

 latter sprinkled with small blue scales ; prothorax very smooth 

 and glossy, chesniit-red ; elytra short, rather depressed, studded 

 •with sm.all granules, the intervals covered with small blue scales; 

 body beneath black; legs dark chesnut, with scattered bristle- 

 shaped scales. 



Only traces of the blue scales sometimes remain; the highly 

 polished prothorax is distinctive. Siteutes was founded by 

 Schonherr on an African form unknown to Lacordaire, who took 

 his description of the genus from S. Inguhris — a Philippine 

 insect ; it is possible that the two are not congeneric. My S. 

 glabratus, from its concave and somewhat bilobed mesosternum, 

 should probably represent a genus of its own. 



Rostrum capite paulo augustius, hand compressum, supra 

 utrinque elevatum, a capite separatum ; serobes superiores, joro- 

 fundaj, foveiformes. Antennce elongate; scapus curvatns, apice 

 hand incrassata, elytrorum basi superans ; funiculus tenuior, 

 articulo secundo primo vel tei'tio dnplo longiore, ca;teris sub- 

 cylindricis; clava parvula. Prothorax brevis, baud lobatus. 

 Scutellum nullum. Elytra ampla, exhumerata. Pedes brevius ■ 

 culi; ungues basi connati. Abdomen segmento secundo duobus 

 sequentibus longiori. 



Allied to EUimenistes, Scluin., but differs in form of the 

 rostrum, which is broader, and not compressed, the longer 

 antennas; and the scape not enlarged, or only at the extreme 

 point, at the apex. 



Diethicns tuinens. 

 D, dense cervino-squamulosus, maculatim f usco-variegatus ; 



