212 Mr. T. V. Wollaston on certain Coleoptera 



Good Hope." Nevertheless it must be admitted that its real position. 

 in a natural classification, is very questionable. 



9. Nesiotes squamosus, n. sp. (PI. XIV. fig. 3.) 



N. ovafcofl, fusco-piceus, opacus et squamis fusco-brunneis crassis plus 

 minus obsitus ; prothorace convex o, mox ante medium rotundato- 

 ampliato, postice angustiore subrecto ; elytris convexis, ovatis antice 

 truncatis et postice leviter acuminatis (i. e. mox intra apicem leviter 

 constrictis) ; antennis (praesertim ad basin) tarsisque calvis rufes- 

 centibus. 



Long. corp. lin. 1-J. 



Two specimens only of this curious little weevil were amongst 

 Mr. Bewicke's captures at St. Helena. 



Fam. AnthribidaB. 

 Genus Notioxenus, nov. gen. (PL XIV. figs. 1, 2.) 



Corpus sat parvum, oblongo-ovatum, vel pubescenti-variegatum vel sub- 

 glabrum et pictum, quasi vere Curcidionideum : rostro brevi, trian- 

 gulari, apice rotundato-truncato ; oeulis lateralibus, rotundatis, demissis : 

 prothorace subovato postice truncato, ante basin vel linea impressa vel 

 striga elevata (plus minus arcuatis) transversim instructo : scuteUo 

 minutissimo (segre observando) : elytris ovalibus basi truncatis, postice 

 paido abbreviatis (pygidium vix tegentibus), necnon ad apicem ipsuni 

 singulatim paulo rotundatis. Antenna graciles, rectae, in pagina supe- 

 riore rostri (mox intra oculos in fovea) insert* ; articulis l m ° et 2d° 

 longiusculis (illo paulo robustiore curvato), 8^o ad 8 vum longitudine 

 Bubsequalibus, latitudine leviter crescentibus, reliquis clavam elongatam 

 laxam 3-articulatam sat abruptam pilosam eflicientibus (9no et 10mo 

 intus obsolete productis, ultimo subgloboso). Pedes breviusculi, sub- 

 graciles ; tibiis rectis, ad apicem muticis ; tarsia pseudotetrameris, art. 

 lmo longiusculo, 2do paulo breviore latiore, ad apicem leviter emarginato, 

 3tium latiorem bilobum recipiente. 



A votios austrinus, et £evos liospes. 



Regarding the affinities of this singular genus there cannot be 

 much question, — its straightened antennae, which are implanted on 

 the upper surface of the l'ostrum, immediately within the eyes, in 

 conjunction with their lax triarticulate club, its sub-basal prothoracic 

 line, slightly abbreviated elytra, and the construction of its second 

 and third tarsal joints at once assigning it to that small section of 

 the Anthribidce of which, I believe, the only recorded genera are 

 Caranistes (from Madagascar), the partially saltatorial Arceocerus 

 (from Java, India, ifcc), and the saltatorial Choragus and Xenor- 

 chestes (from Europe and Madeira respectively). Nevertheless in 



