from the Cape of Good Hope. 141 



Mellie, — a species remarkable for its obloug form, large subporrected 

 head, nearly tmproduced prothorax, almost naked surface, and sub- 

 raacidated elytra. As regards the last, however, the C. subornatus 

 has but a very obscure tendency to assume that singularity of mark- 

 ing which in highly-coloured examples from Madeira is often so 

 apparent ; nevertheless the same tendency is just traceable in all the 

 specimens which Mr. Bewicke collected, whilst in one of them it is 

 particularly conspicuous. In minor details, the Cape of Good Hope 

 species is much smaller, narrower, and a little more linear, than the 

 Madeiran one, its clypeus is more truncated in front, its pubescence 

 still shorter and more remote (being imperceptible except under a 

 powerful lens), its prothoracic punctation rather deeper and less 

 dense, and its scutellum a trifle more triangular. Whether the 

 C. subornatus and Wollastonii are at all abnormal in their structure, 

 or whether (as I rather suspect) the generic details given by Mellie 

 in his excellent monograph are not quite correctly drawn, I cannot 

 tell ; but certainly in both the above species the maxillary palpi are 

 much longer than he has figured them, and the inner lobe, although 

 very short, is more apparent (being internally membraneous and 

 most powerfully ciliated) ; the ligula, too, is considerably more 

 elongated (being rounded anteriorly, and gradually contracted before 

 the base) ; and the ultimate joint of the labial-palpi (instead of 

 being ovate, as he has represented it) is narrow, sublinear and 

 aciculate, — being of a very much less width than the preceding one. 

 I should mention perhaps that, judging from the description, the 

 C. subornatus is perfectly distinct from the three species — Guerinii, 

 Capensis, and muriceus — stated by Mellie to come from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Earn. Curculionidae. 



(Subfam. Cossonides.) 



Genus Stenoscelis, nov. gen. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Corpus parvum, cylindricum sculpturatum, Hylastes, prima facie simulans, 

 sed tibiarum structura Curculionidis certe congruit : capite (fig. 1 b) 

 magno subgloboso convexo subporrecto, mare paululum rostrato (i. e. 

 rostro brevissimo latissimo subtriangulari crasso) ; scrobe fere nullo 

 (antennis iu impressione brevi mox ante medium oculi insertis) ; man- 

 dibulis magiiis exsertis ; oculis magnis rotundatis sed valde demissis : 

 prothorace transverso-subquadrato, antice paulo angustiore et pone 

 marginem anticum transversim constricto : scutello minutissimo puncti- 

 formi : ehjtris cylindricis, postice obtusis muricatis. Antennae, (tig. 1 a) 

 brevissinux;, crassiusculse, prope medium rostri brevissimi insert* 



